Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
With fact-checks, Twitter takes on a new kind of task
By Elizabeth Culliford and Katie Paul (Reuters) - In addition to disputing misleading claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump about mail-in ballots this week, Twitter has added fact-checking labels...
May 30, 2020
FBI’s top lawyer resigns as agency faces pressure from Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI said on Saturday that its top lawyer, Dana Boente, had announced his resignation as the agency faces scrutiny over its investigations of former staffers and supporters o...
May 30, 2020
Biden staff donate to group that pays bail in riot-torn Minneapolis
By Jason Lange and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Campaign staff for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are advertising their donations to a group that pays bail fees in Minneapolis ...
May 30, 2020
U.S. CDC reports total of 1,737,950 coronavirus cases, 102,785 deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday reported a total 1,737,950 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 18,123 cases from its previous count, and said...
May 30, 2020
U.S. military units put on four-hour standby amid Minnesota unrest
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In an extraordinary move, the Pentagon on Saturday said it put military units on a four-hour recall status to be ready if requested by Minnesota's governor amid civil unrest fol...
May 30, 2020
Divert weapons funding to research to prevent next pandemic, pope says
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday urged politicians to divert funds spent on weapons to research to prevent another pandemic, as he led the largest gathering in the ...
May 30, 2020
After pandemic, California oyster farmer confident in industry’s return
MARSHALL, Calif. (Reuters) - While most businesses across the United States remained shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, Terry Sawyer, co-founder of Hog Island Oyster Co had plenty of work to s...
May 30, 2020
Trump says military could respond quickly to Minneapolis unrest
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said the military could deploy troops to Minneapolis "very quickly" to respond to violent protests in the aftermath of a police killing of an unarmed...
May 30, 2020
Drugs standards group nixes plan to kick pharma’s crab blood habit
By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Horseshoe crabs' icy-blue blood is set to remain the drug industry's standard for safety tests after a powerful U.S. group ditched a plan to put on an equal footing a...
May 30, 2020
Trump says protesters would have met ‘vicious dogs’ if White House fence breached
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said demonstrators protesting the death of a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck would have been "greeted w...
May 30, 2020
