Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
West African mediators jet to Mali seeking reversal of coup
BAMAKO/LONDON (Reuters) - Mediators from West Africa's regional bloc are due in Mali on Saturday for talks aimed at reversing a coup that has been condemned abroad, but celebrated by many in a country...
Aug 22, 2020
U.S. House takes on Postal reforms seen as threat to mail-in ballots
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Saturday on providing the cash-strapped Postal Service with $25 billion and block policies that hav...
Aug 22, 2020
COVID-19 scary? Japan group offers coffins, chainsaws for stress relief
TOKYO (Reuters) - Finding the pandemic scary? A Japanese group is trying to take people's minds off COVID-19 - by putting them in coffins surrounded by chainsaw-wielding zombies. Customers this weeken...
Aug 22, 2020
Plane carrying Kremlin critic Navalny lands in Berlin – flight tracking data
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - An ambulance aircraft carrying gravely ill Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny landed at Berlin's Tegel airport on Saturday morning, according to flight tracking data. German doctors h...
Aug 22, 2020
Novartis immuno-oncology drug candidate fails skin cancer trial
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis said on Saturday that its investigational spartalizumab immuno-oncology drug mixed with the approved medicines Tafinlar and Mekinist failed in a late-stage ...
Aug 22, 2020
Stricken Kremlin critic Navalny en route to Germany
OMSK, Russia (Reuters) - A plane carrying Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny took off from the Russian city of Omsk early on Saturday headed for Germany, his spokeswoman said on Twitter. Gra...
Aug 21, 2020
Moderna says more than 40% of participants enrolled for COVID-19 vaccine trial
(Reuters) - Drug developer Moderna Inc on Friday said it has so far enrolled 13,194 participants in the ongoing late-stage 30,000-volunteer U.S. trial testing its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. In a twee...
Aug 21, 2020
‘Pure joy’: Giant panda at U.S. National Zoo gives birth to healthy cub
(Reuters) - Giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth to a healthy cub on Friday at the National Zoo in Washington, and immediately began nursing and cuddling the tiny new arrival, animal care staff said. It w...
Aug 21, 2020
Arizona voters put tax to fund education, recreational marijuana on November ballot
By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Voters will decide in November whether to pump $940 million into education by taxing Arizona's highest earners and make the state the 11th in the nation to legali...
Aug 21, 2020
U.S. closes lanes, adds checks at Mexico border to contain coronavirus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday closed lanes at select ports of entry at the border with Mexico and will conduct more secondary checks in a bid to limit non-essential travel and the...
Aug 21, 2020
