Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Trump to address school re-openings at briefing on Thursday: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will discuss a strategy to re-open the nation's schools at a briefing at 5 p.m. (2100 GMT) on Thursday, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said. McE...
Jul 23, 2020
U.S. weekly jobless claims rise; labor market recovery stalling
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose last week for the first time in nearly four months, suggesting the labor market was stalling amid...
Jul 23, 2020
Mnuchin urges quick action on coronavirus relief, open to another bill: CNBC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Thursday the White House is interested in getting a trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill out quickly and would be open to anothe...
Jul 23, 2020
Paris sewage reveals COVID still not flushed away
NOISY-LE-GRAND, France (Reuters) - Samples of wastewater from the Paris sewage system have been showing traces of COVID-19 again since the end of June, having vanished when France imposed a lockdown, ...
Jul 23, 2020
U.S. judge to decide if newly imprisoned Michael Cohen can go home again
By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday will consider whether to release Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, who says he was returned to ...
Jul 23, 2020
U.S. eviction bans are ending. That could worsen the spread of coronavirus
By Michelle Conlin NEW YORK (Reuters) - Last month, as the coronavirus was surging in Houston, recently unemployed hospital secretary Ramzan Boudoin got more bad news: She had six days to vacate her a...
Jul 23, 2020
U.S. sets global benchmark for COVID-19 vaccine price at around the cost of a flu shot
By Carl O'Donnell (Reuters) - The U.S. government has set a benchmark for COVID-19 vaccine pricing in a $2 billion deal announced on Wednesday with Pfizer Inc and German biotech BioNTech SE that will ...
Jul 23, 2020
Stimulus bets buoy futures ahead of jobless claims
By Medha Singh and Devik Jain (Reuters) - S&P 500 and Dow futures hovered near five-month highs on Thursday, as signs that a new coronavirus relief package was at hand lifted sentiment ahead of weekly...
Jul 23, 2020
If Trump challenges election results, Democrats are prepared to fight
By Michael Martina (Reuters) - Democrats are mounting their most extensive voter protection effort ever to gird for what Joe Biden called his biggest fear: the prospect that President Donald Trump wil...
Jul 23, 2020
U.S. records 2,600 new coronavirus cases every hour as total approaches four million
By Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - U.S. coronavirus cases were approaching 4 million on Thursday, with over 2,600 new cases every hour on average, the highest rate in the world, according to a Reuters tally...
Jul 23, 2020
