Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
ACLU sues Minnesota police, alleging harassment of journalists at protests
By Sharon Bernstein and Peter Szekely (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union has accused Minnesota law enforcement of wrongly arresting, injuring and harassing journalists covering unrest spar...
Jun 03, 2020
Vigil banned, Hong Kong set to commemorate Tiananmen with ‘candles everywhere’
HONG KONG (Reuters) - People in Hong Kong are set to commemorate the bloody 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops in and around Tiananmen Square by lighting candles across the city on Thursday, after polic...
Jun 03, 2020
Early Facebook staffers denounce Zuckerberg stance on Trump posts
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nearly three dozen former employees from Facebook's early days on Wednesday blasted Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to act against incendiary pos...
Jun 03, 2020
UCLA complains Jackie Robinson Stadium used as ‘field jail’ for civil rights protesters
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) said it was "troubled" by reports that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) used its baseball venue Jackie Robin...
Jun 03, 2020
Amazon is sued over warehouses after New York worker brings coronavirus home, cousin dies
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has been sued for allegedly fostering the spread of the coronavirus by mandating unsafe working conditions, causing at least one employee to con...
Jun 03, 2020
Obama calls on every U.S. mayor to pursue policing reforms in wake of protests
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - In his first live remarks on the unrest gripping dozens of U.S. cities, former U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged every American mayor to review and reform their p...
Jun 03, 2020
Trump says he likely won’t need military to respond to protests
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he did not believe that he would need to use U.S. troops to counter domestic protests sparked by a police killing of an unarmed bla...
Jun 03, 2020
Mexican glass maker Vitro to shut two U.S. plants due to coronavirus
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican glass producer Vitro said on Wednesday that it will shut two plants in the United States before the end of the year due to the effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic...
Jun 03, 2020
Fired U.S. State Department watchdog tells lawmakers he was impartial
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A State Department inspector general abruptly fired by U.S. President Donald Trump last month defended his record to lawmakers on Wednesday, saying he had s...
Jun 03, 2020
African, Caribbean migrants continue trek towards U.S. border
By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Migrants from Africa and the Caribbean, stranded in Honduras after Central American countries closed their borders to curb the spread of the novel coronavir...
Jun 03, 2020
