Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Minnesota governor mandates use of face coverings in businesses, indoor public settings
(Reuters) - Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed an executive order on Wednesday requiring the use of face coverings in indoor businesses and indoor public settings in an effort to slow the spread of th...
Jul 22, 2020
Senior U.S. diplomat backs foreign students, including Chinese
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department's number two diplomat expressed strong support on Wednesday for foreign students in the United States, including Chinese students, less...
Jul 22, 2020
Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Corporate America is downsizing its real estate footprint as companies allow more employees to work from home, a growing threat to the bottom line of owners of tr...
Jul 22, 2020
House Republicans want Twitter CEO to testify at tech hearing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said Wednesday they want Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey to appear at a hearing next week of major technology companies. Th...
Jul 22, 2020
U.S. bans drone flights near Portland buildings at center of anti-police protests
By Mark Hosenball and Kristina Cooke (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have banned drones from flying near federal buildings in Portland, Oregon, saying they believe federal officers have been surveiled by...
Jul 22, 2020
FBI says it has evidence linking anti-feminist lawyer to another murder
(Reuters) - The FBI said on Wednesday it had evidence linking Roy Den Hollander, the suspect in the shooting of the son and husband of federal judge Esther Salas in New Jersey, to a separate murder ea...
Jul 22, 2020
U.S. House to vote on banishing Confederate statues from Capitol building
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives was due to vote on Wednesday to remove statues honoring heroes of the pro-slavery Confederacy from the C...
Jul 22, 2020
U.S. was ‘late to the party’ in the Arctic, says Pompeo
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The United States and allies have been too slow to react to Chinese and Russian interests in the Arctic region, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Danish public broadcaste...
Jul 22, 2020
Trump to expand ‘Operation Legend’ crime operation to Albuquerque: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration will announce on Wednesday an expansion of its "Operation Legend" program to include Albuquerque, New Mexico in a further effort by feder...
Jul 22, 2020
U.S. coronavirus infections, hospitalizations rise, crisis could worsen
(Reuters) - The United States has revisited the grim milestone of recording more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths in a single day, while infections and hospitalizations are rising in many states, forcing Pr...
Jul 22, 2020
