Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Trump sows confusion with tweet urging ‘vote by mail’ in Florida
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After weeks of railing against what he claimed were the potential risks of voting by mail, President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged voters in at least one Republ...
Aug 04, 2020
Trump’s national security adviser returns to work after contracting COVID-19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, returned to work at the White House on Tuesday following his recovery from a mild case of COVID-19, a Nationa...
Aug 04, 2020
Trump signs law to fund overdue maintenance of public lands
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law a rare bipartisan bill that will use royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling operations to fund long-overdue maintena...
Aug 04, 2020
White House: Democrats making ‘mockery’ of U.S. coronavirus relief talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats have rejected four offers from the White House in negotiations over another round of economic aid meant to blunt the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and are making...
Aug 04, 2020
Republican senator gives Trump ‘big stick’ to carry as election nears
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, who ran unsuccessfully for the White House in 1996 and 2000, handed Donald Trump a 5-foot walking cane after a White House event on Tuesday, ...
Aug 04, 2020
Brazil, hotbed for COVID-19 vaccine testing, may struggle to produce its own
By Lisandra Paraguassu, Pedro Fonseca and Eduardo Simes BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian officials say they can start making COVID-19 vaccines developed by British and Chinese researchers within a year....
Aug 04, 2020
State attorneys general urge U.S. govt to increase supply, lower price of remdesivir
(Reuters) - A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general asked the U.S. government to use its legal authority to increase the availability and lower the price of Gilead Sciences' COVID-19 treatment, re...
Aug 04, 2020
Large explosion heard in Beirut
DUBAI (Reuters) - A large explosion was heard and thick smoke was seen rising from the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, a Reuters witness and Al Arabiya television reported. (Writing by Lisa Barrin...
Aug 04, 2020
Black-owned businesses more vulnerable to coronavirus crisis, NY Fed says
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - Black-owned U.S. businesses have failed at a disproportionately higher rate than those owned by whites during the coronavirus epidemic possibly because they were in poore...
Aug 04, 2020
Suspected Russian hackers stole contents of ex-UK trade minister’s personal email account: sources
By Jack Stubbs LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected state-backed Russian hackers are believed to have stolen the entire contents of a personal email account used by former British trade minister Liam Fox as p...
Aug 04, 2020
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