Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Futures retreat as U.S.-China tensions heat up over TikTok
By Sagarika Jaisinghani and Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock futures pulled back on Tuesday as President Donald Trump's moves to force China-owned TikTok into a sale of its U.S. operations drew a sh...
Aug 04, 2020
U.S. congressional primaries in five states feature polar political opposites
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kansas arch-conservative Kris Kobach and prominent Michigan progressive Rashida Tlaib - candidates from the outer edges of the Republican and Democratic partie...
Aug 04, 2020
WHO says China team interviewed Wuhan scientists over virus origins
GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Health Organization team in China to probe the origins of COVID-19 had "extensive discussions" and exchanges with scientists in Wuhan where the outbreak was first detected, ...
Aug 04, 2020
‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’ faces tough race to win old job back
By David Shwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Arizona's largest county who built a national reputation as a staunch opponent of illegal immigration and found a powerful ally i...
Aug 04, 2020
Military helps worn-out nurses, sicker patients in California COVID-19 effort
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - All day long, as Air Force nurse Major Pinky Brewton cares for patients struggling to breathe in California's COVID-19 ravaged San Joaquin Valley, fe...
Aug 04, 2020
White House, U.S. Congress Democrats to continue effort on coronavirus aid
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top White House officials and Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress will try again on Tuesday to narrow gaping differences over a fifth major coronavirus-aid b...
Aug 04, 2020
ByteDance says goal of U.S. was to ban TikTok app rather than force a sale: internal letter
BEIJING (Reuters) - ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees in an internal letter on Tuesday that the United States goal was not to force a sale of TikTok U.S. operations but rather to ban the a...
Aug 04, 2020
French top scientific body sees second wave of COVID-19 in autumn or winter
PARIS (Reuters) - France's top scientific body said a second wave of the coronavirus was "highly likely" this autumn or winter as the country grapples with a marked increase of new cases of the diseas...
Aug 04, 2020
Trump: U.S. should get ‘substantial portion’ of TikTok operations sale price
By David Shepardson and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. government should get a "substantial portion" of the sales price of the U.S. operations of po...
Aug 04, 2020
Taiwan provisionally approves dexamethasone as coronavirus treatment
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan provisionally approved the use of dexamethasone, a cheap and widely-used steroid, to treat the new coronavirus, as the island faces a shortfall of the antiviral drug remdesiv...
Aug 04, 2020
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