Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
New Mexico delays in-person school through Sept 7
(Reuters) - New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday said in-person learning in the state would be delayed through at least Sept. 7 due to coronavirus levels that were "too problematic."...
Jul 23, 2020
Alibaba Cloud helps Chinese students, foreign schools scale Great Firewall
By Pei Li HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is seizing on a new business opportunity thrown up by the novel coronavirus: helping foreign universities skirt China's stringent inte...
Jul 23, 2020
Arizona extends closure of gyms, bars, nightclubs, and water parks
(Reuters) - Arizona Governor Doug Ducey on Thursday extended the closure of gyms, bars, nightclubs, water parks, movie theaters and other businesses in the state despite a decline in new daily cases o...
Jul 23, 2020
Exclusive: More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts – sources
By Joseph Menn, Katie Paul and Raphael Satter SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change us...
Jul 23, 2020
Americans broadly back more federal coronavirus relief: Reuters/IPSOS poll
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A strong majority of Americans from across the political spectrum back more federal government relief to businesses and households hurt by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a...
Jul 23, 2020
Trump says Florida convention event canceled after coronavirus spike
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would no longer be holding a large gathering in Florida in August to accept the Republican Party's nomination, after a spike in corona...
Jul 23, 2020
Trump: Hot spot virus states may need to delay school openings by a few weeks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday states that are currently coronavirus hot spots may need to delay re-opening schools by a "few weeks" while he pushed otherwise for ...
Jul 23, 2020
Pompeo calls for more assertive response to ‘Frankenstein’ China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took fresh aim at China in a speech on Thursday and said U.S. allies must use "more creative and assertive ways" to press the Chinese Communi...
Jul 23, 2020
‘Bait and switch’: New Mexico Democrats distrust Trump’s ‘surge’ against crime
By Andrew Hay and Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Even as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she would accept U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to send a "surge" of federal agents to fight violent crime in D...
Jul 23, 2020
Taro Pharmaceuticals to pay more than $200 million to settle U.S. price-fixing probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Taro Pharmaceutical agreed to pay more than $200 million to settle allegations that it conspired to fix the prices of generic drugs, the Justice Department said on Thursday. The...
Jul 23, 2020
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