Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
No player protests as NHL makes return
By Steve Keating TORONTO (Reuters) - The National Hockey League returned from a COVID-19 shutdown on Saturday without the players showing support for Black Lives Matter or any other social justice cau...
Aug 01, 2020
Exclusive: TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
By Echo Wang and Alexandra Alper NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after Pre...
Aug 01, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 4,542,579 coronavirus cases
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday reported 4,542,579 cases of the novel coronavirus, an increase of 68,605 cases from its previous count, and said that ...
Aug 01, 2020
New Mexico congressman tests positive for coronavirus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representative Raul Grijalva, a New Mexico Democrat, has tested positive for coronavirus but feels fine and has gone into isolation, he said in a statement on Saturday. Grijalva...
Aug 01, 2020
Facebook puts global block on Brazil’s Bolsonaro supporters
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Facebook said on Saturday it has put a global block on certain accounts controlled by supporters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro implicated in a fake news inquiry, a day afte...
Aug 01, 2020
Fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest surge in July, worst in recent days
By Jake Spring BRASILIA (Reuters) - The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest jumped 28% in July from a year ago, official data showed on Saturday, as some environmentalists warned a jump this...
Aug 01, 2020
Exclusive: ByteDance offers to forgo stake in TikTok to clinch U.S. deal – sources
By Echo Wang NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Fri...
Aug 01, 2020
Thousands march in Berlin to protest coronavirus curbs
BERLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Berlin on Saturday to protest against measures imposed in Germany to stem the coronavirus pandemic, saying they violated people's rights and fr...
Aug 01, 2020
NASA astronauts riding SpaceX capsule poised for weekend return, weather permitting
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) - The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's new Crew Drago are due to return on Sunday after a nearly four-month voyage that marked...
Aug 01, 2020
Congressional Democrats, White House set for Saturday talks on coronavirus bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrats in Congress were to meet Saturday with two top Trump aides to try to reach a deal to pump more money into the U.S. economy to ease the coronavirus' heavy toll,...
Aug 01, 2020
