Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Asia shares set to open higher as traders await U.S. payrolls
By Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Asia shares were poised to open higher on Friday, tracking global equity markets' overnight gains as investors awaited a U.S. nonfarm payrolls report. Hong Kon...
Aug 06, 2020
Problems plagued U.S. CO2 capture project before shutdown: DOE document
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - A $1 billion project to harness carbon dioxide emissions from a Texas coal plant suffered chronic mechanical problems and routinely missed its targets before it was shut d...
Aug 06, 2020
U.S. Democrats press Postal Service after reports of delayed mail
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top two Democrats in Congress on Thursday called on the new U.S. Postal Service head to reverse changes that they say are resulting in delayed mail durin...
Aug 06, 2020
California judge weighs Uber, Lyft driver classifications
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - California and three of its largest cities urged a state judge on Thursday to issue a preliminary injunction requiring Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc to classify th...
Aug 06, 2020
Got an axe to grind? Throw it instead!
(Reuters) - Had it up to here with your boss, your partner, the lockdown? Throw an axe to get it all out. 'Axe Rage Rooms' are all the er, rage in Jordan as people seek release during the pandemic. Wh...
Aug 06, 2020
Trailing in election polls, Trump says rival Biden opposes God and guns
By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican President Donald Trump asserted on Thursday that his Democratic opponent in November's election, Joe Biden, is "against God," even though Biden h...
Aug 06, 2020
AMC expects to reopen all international theaters in three weeks
(Reuters) - AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc said on Thursday it expects all its international theaters to resume operations in the next two to three weeks, while two-thirds or more of its U.S. theaters...
Aug 06, 2020
Facebook bars pro-Trump PAC from advertising, citing repeated false posts
By Elizabeth Culliford and Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is temporarily banning a Republican political action committee, the Committee to Defend the President, from advertising aft...
Aug 06, 2020
U.S. prosecutors charge former Citgo executive in bribery probe
HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged a former Citgo Petroleum manager with accepting $2.5 million as part of a scheme to bribe officials with the U.S. refiner and its Venezuelan parent to win ...
Aug 06, 2020
Justice Department to send agents to St. Louis and Memphis to fight crime
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal law enforcement agents will be sent to St. Louis and Memphis, Tennessee, to help fight violent crime, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. The announcement mark...
Aug 06, 2020
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