Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Two storms head for U.S. Gulf in rare hurricane season event
By Liz Hampton (Reuters) - A pair of tropical cyclones forecast to become hurricanes early next week are headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast and will spin over the Gulf's warm waters simultaneously, a rare...
Aug 21, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 173,490 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday said the number of deaths due to the new coronavirus had risen by 1,074 to 173,490 and reported 5,551,793 cases, an incr...
Aug 21, 2020
U.S. Coast Guard shuts Corpus Christi ship channel’s Inner Harbor
(Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday said it has closed the Inner Harbor from Harbor Bridge inward of the Port of Corpus Christi ship channel in Texas after a dredging vessel fire. Two injured c...
Aug 21, 2020
California’s ‘Golden State Killer’ sentenced to life in prison
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A former California police officer was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for a string of 1970s and '80s murders and rapes attributed to the so-called "Golden State K...
Aug 21, 2020
Exclusive: Photoshopping Obama – the company that wants to buy Newcastle United
By John Geddie, Chen Lin and Joe Brock SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The Singapore-registered company that says it is close to buying English soccer club Newcastle United admits it doctored photos of former U...
Aug 21, 2020
Gilead study: remdesivir has marginal benefit for moderate COVID patients
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Moderately ill COVID-19 patients saw their condition improve after a 5-day course of Gilead Sciences Inc's remdesivir, but a 10-day course did not show a benefit and the d...
Aug 21, 2020
U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions drop to record in April: EIA
(Reuters) - U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in April fell to their lowest level, according to the U.S Energy Information Administration's (EIA) records dating back to 1973, as coron...
Aug 21, 2020
Pence previews Republican counterattack after Democrats savage Trump at convention
By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After hearing Democrats brand President Donald Trump a threat to U.S. democracy, Republicans will paint his challenger Joe Biden as beholden to the radical left ...
Aug 21, 2020
WHO hopes coronavirus can be over in two years, Tedros says
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus crisis can be over in less than two years, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. The Spanish flu that hit in 1918 ...
Aug 21, 2020
Decorated veteran at center of U.S. fraud charges on border-wall fundraising
By Joseph Tanfani and Julia Harte (Reuters) - Brian Kolfage lost both legs and his right hand in a 2004 rocket attack in Iraq. He earned a Purple Heart and became known as one of the most severely inj...
Aug 21, 2020
