Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. unveils vision for more development in national forests
(Reuters) - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Friday unveiled what he called a "blueprint" for enabling energy extraction, mining, grazing and logging in federal forests by speeding up environment...
Jun 12, 2020
Factbox: Key factors in whether U.S. has second wave of COVID-19
NEW YORK (Reuters) - About half a dozen U.S. states including Texas and Arizona are grappling with a rising number of coronavirus patients filling hospital beds, fanning concerns that the reopening of...
Jun 12, 2020
New York City oversight bill to force police to detail surveillance tools
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - New York politicians are expected to vote next week to force the city's police force to divulge the surveillance technology it uses, one of many reforms of law enforcemen...
Jun 12, 2020
Fed’s Bostic calls for end to racism, says Fed can play a role
(Reuters) - Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic, the Fed's only African American policymaker, on Friday issued an impassioned call for an end to racism and laid out ways the U.S. cen...
Jun 12, 2020
Zoom hits political turbulence in Washington, Beijing; lobbyists ready
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Zoom Video Communications, whose remote meeting app made the obscure California company a hub for global communications during the coronavirus pandemic, now finds...
Jun 12, 2020
Kentucky to remove statue of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis from Capitol
By Peter Szekely (Reuters) - Kentucky on Friday agreed to remove a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its State Capitol building, the latest action in a renewed drive to take down su...
Jun 12, 2020
As Brazil’s COVID-19 deaths surge, WHO says hospital system coping
GENEVA/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's COVID-19 death toll is on track to overtake Britain on Friday to become the second highest in the world with over 40,000 dead, but the World Health Organization sa...
Jun 12, 2020
California examines Amazon’s business practices: WSJ
(Reuters) - California investigators are examining Amazon.com Inc's business practices as part of an inquiry into the company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with t...
Jun 12, 2020
Trump campaign’s waiver won’t block coronavirus lawsuits: experts
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - The attempt by U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to shield itself from lawsuits by people who become infected with the coronavirus at his first political rally in months ...
Jun 12, 2020
Ex-White House adviser Bolton has book ‘Donald Trump doesn’t want you to read’
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former White House national security adviser John Bolton has written a book that provides an insider account of President Donald Trump's "inconsistent, scatters...
Jun 12, 2020
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