Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Exclusive: No. 2 U.S. diplomat to visit Russia, Lithuania to discuss Belarus – sources
By Jonathan Landay and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number two U.S. diplomat will visit Russia and Lithuania soon for talks on Belarus, two sources familiar with the matter said on Frida...
Aug 21, 2020
Exclusive: TikTok to challenge U.S. order banning transactions with the video app
By Echo Wang and David Shepardson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - TikTok is preparing to mount a legal challenge as early as Monday to President Donald Trump's executive order prohibiting transactions...
Aug 21, 2020
Limited transmission of COVID-19 found in U.S. childcare study, CDC says
(Reuters) - Transmission of COVID-19 from children or adults to other people in Rhode Island childcare programs occurred on only a limited basis, a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Aug 21, 2020
U.S. international airline passenger contact tracing plan stalls, sources say
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration's efforts to require airlines to collect contact tracing information from U.S.-bound international passengers has stalled, five peop...
Aug 21, 2020
U.S. Postal Service launches election mail website ahead of elections
(Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service said on Friday it has launched a new election mail website, as a part of its efforts to ensure voters have correct information about voting by mail for the November...
Aug 21, 2020
What’s at stake in California’s November gig worker ballot measure
By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - After a California appeals court on Thursday halted a law requiring the reclassification of ride-hail drivers of Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc as employees, the decisio...
Aug 21, 2020
Closely watched ‘Tenet’ earns critical praise as U.S. cinemas reopen
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Christopher Nolan's new thriller "Tenet" received warm reviews on Friday as U.S. cinema chains reopened with industry-wide safety measures aimed at re...
Aug 21, 2020
Delta pilot union says 1,806 pilots taking early retirement
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The union representing Delta Air Lines pilots said on Friday that 1,806 had agreed to early retirement programs, spurring talks with management to avoid furloughs as the airline co...
Aug 21, 2020
Exclusive: Nearly a fifth of enrollees in Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine study are Black or Latino: executive
By Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly a fifth of 11,000 people enrolled so far in a 30,000-volunteer U.S. trial testing a COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and German p...
Aug 21, 2020
Democratic convention’s closing night TV audience rises in early estimates
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The closing night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention attracted roughly 21.8 million primetime television viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen data, suggesting the ...
Aug 21, 2020
