Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
EU reaches deal on post-pandemic recovery after marathon summit
By Jan Strupczewski and John Chalmers BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders reached a deal on a massive stimulus plan for their coronavirus-blighted economies at a pre-dawn meeting on Tuesday af...
Jul 20, 2020
Former Fox News employee’s suit accuses former anchorman of rape
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - Former Fox News employee Jennifer Eckhart filed a lawsuit on Monday in a New York federal court against Fox News and former network anchor Ed Henry, accusing him of raping ...
Jul 20, 2020
California reports nearly 12,000 COVID cases, biggest increase since pandemic started
By Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - California reported a record increase of more than 11,800 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, according to a Reuters tally of county data, as the Trump administration pushes ...
Jul 20, 2020
Olympics: A year to go, rearranged Tokyo Games still shrouded in uncertainty
By Jack Tarrant TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 organisers will host celebrations marking the one-year countdown to the Olympics on Thursday but with the postponed Games still shrouded in uncertainty the...
Jul 20, 2020
Asian markets set to track U.S. gains on vaccine, EU deal hopes
By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian shares were set to open higher on Tuesday after U.S. markets gained ground on positive data from trials of three potential COVID-19 vaccines and ...
Jul 20, 2020
U.S. Senate confirms Trump nominee who defied subpoena to lead budget office
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted along party lines on Monday to confirm Russell Vought as director of the Office of Management and Budget, eight months after Vought de...
Jul 20, 2020
House Democrats press U.S. Postal Service on plans to delay mail
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior Democrats on a House Oversight Committee wrote to the new postmaster general on Monday to press him on reports the service was prepared to delay mail delivery if needed t...
Jul 20, 2020
Washington says new COVID-19 data site is better than CDC program it replaced
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. officials defended a move to take collection of hospital data on COVID-19 cases away from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying a new data system launch...
Jul 20, 2020
Georgia Democrats pick state senator to replace John Lewis on Nov. U.S. ballot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic Party in Georgia said on Monday it had chosen state senator Nikema Williams to be its nominee to run for the U.S. House of Representatives seat that is vacant fol...
Jul 20, 2020
Trump campaign runs Facebook ads on whether TikTok should be banned
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign ran Facebook ads this weekend claiming that the Chinese-owned short video app TikTok is spying on users. The ads l...
Jul 20, 2020
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