Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Bring a chair and sunscreen: boarding schools prepare for students’ return
By Daphne Psaledakis (Reuters) - Students at a small boarding school in California received an unusual set of instructions this summer: return to campus in the fall armed with a portable chair, a sun ...
Jul 28, 2020
McDonald’s global sales suffer as COVID-19 lockdowns limit operations
(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp on Tuesday reported a bigger-than-expected drop in global same-store sales as the burger chain's restaurants across the world were shut because of the COVID-19 pandemic, li...
Jul 28, 2020
Malaysian ex-PM Najib sentenced to 12 years jail, fined for abuse of power
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian court on Tuesday sentenced Malaysia's former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 12 years in jail and fined him 210 million ringgit ($49.40 million) for abuse of power l...
Jul 28, 2020
Pfizer profit falls 32% as global trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidate begins
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc reported a 32% fall in second-quarter profit on Tuesday due to a dip in demand for some of its drugs from the COVID-19 pandemic and from rising competition, as the company and p...
Jul 28, 2020
Futures slip with focus on stimulus talks, Pfizer, McDonald’s earnings
By Devik Jain (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures retreated on Tuesday as lawmakers geared up to debate a coronavirus relief deal to limit the economic damage from the pandemic, with investors also k...
Jul 28, 2020
Republicans, Democrats face tough talks on coronavirus relief as deadline looms
By David Morgan and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republicans and Democrats faced difficult talks on Tuesday on how best to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, after Republicans unv...
Jul 28, 2020
U.S. Attorney General Barr faces House scrutiny on handling of protests, cases involving Trump allies
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr faces tough questioning on Tuesday by a Democratic-controlled House of Representative committee whose members believe he abu...
Jul 28, 2020
Biden to unveil plan to combat racial inequities
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will explain how he would address systemic racism and racial economic inequality in a speech on Tuesday, outlining the fourth and f...
Jul 28, 2020
U.S. senator introduces legislation to curb Big Tech’s ad business
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Josh Hawley on Tuesday introduced legislation that would penalize large tech companies that sell or show targeted advertisements by threatenin...
Jul 28, 2020
WHO says COVID-19 pandemic is ‘one big wave’, not seasonal
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned against complacency about new coronavirus transmission in the northern hemisphere summer, saying that this virus did not behave like ...
Jul 28, 2020
