Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. Supreme Court’s Ginsburg undergoing treatment for cancer recurrence
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at 87 the U.S. Supreme Court's oldest member, said on Friday she is receiving chemotherapy treatment for a recurrence of cancer, the latest in ...
Jul 17, 2020
WHO says COVID-19 cases in Brazil no longer rising exponentially
GENEVA (Reuters) - Coronavirus infections in Brazil no longer appear to be rising exponentially but have reached a plateau, creating an opportunity to get the outbreak there under control, WHO emergen...
Jul 17, 2020
Chicago schools plan a hybrid remote/in-person learning model for fall, mayor says
(Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said on Friday that her city's public school district, the third largest in the U.S., was planning to host some classes remotely and some in-person this fall i...
Jul 17, 2020
Google to prevent ads on coronavirus conspiracy theory content
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google on Friday said it will prohibit websites and apps that use its advertising technology from running ads on "dangerous content" that goes against scienti...
Jul 17, 2020
U.S. urged to include Black, Latino communities in COVID-19 vaccine trials
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - A group of physicians and scientists are urging the U.S. government to include Black, Latino and indigenous Americans in the design and implementation of COVID...
Jul 17, 2020
WHO preparing full mission to China to study virus origins
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is forming a team of international experts to go to China to study the origins of the novel coronavirus, but it will not be in place before the end of ...
Jul 17, 2020
Liberal challenger Bowman ousts veteran congressman Engel in New York primary – media
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Liberal Democrat Jamaal Bowman ousted 16-term U.S. Representative Eliot Engel from a congressional seat representing part of New York, two media outlets reported on Friday. The ra...
Jul 17, 2020
U.S. state, local leaders should be as forceful as possible on masks, Fauci says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci on Friday said state and local leaders should be as forceful as possible on wearing masks to prevent spreading the deadly corona...
Jul 17, 2020
Quicken Loans parent expects profit to surge ahead of U.S. IPO
(Reuters) - Rocket Companies Inc said on Friday it expects a profit of more than $3 billion in the second quarter compared to a loss a year earlier, as the parent company of the U.S. mortgage lender Q...
Jul 17, 2020
‘Guess who’s back?’: Political figures locked out in hack start returning to Twitter
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Some U.S. political figures, candidates and lawmakers locked out of their Twitter accounts in collateral damage from Wednesday's high-profile hack were beginning to ...
Jul 17, 2020
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