Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Exclusive: Zoom plans to roll out strong encryption for paying customers only
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zoom , the video conferencing provider whose business has boomed with the COVID-19 pandemic, plans to strengthen encryption on video calls made by paying clien...
May 29, 2020
Young Minneapolis mayor in spotlight after police killing, protests
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - Shaken and angry, Minneapolis' telegenic young mayor stood in front of television cameras over and over this week - first to decry the police killing of George Floyd, a...
May 29, 2020
U.S. high court rejects church challenge to Illinois pandemic rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to Illinois' restrictions on religious services during the coronavirus pandemic, noting that the state had lifted the limit...
May 29, 2020
Trump ex-adviser Flynn asked Russia to avoid ‘tit-for-tat,’ new transcript shows
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's former adviser Michael Flynn asked Russia's ambassador to help avoid an escalation in diplomatic sanctions during a call between ...
May 29, 2020
Biden urged to pick black VP, not Klobuchar as Minneapolis killing stokes racial tensions
By Joseph Ax and Richard Cowan (Reuters) - Joe Biden is facing fresh calls to choose a black woman for his running mate amid rising racial tensions after this week's videotaped killing of an unarmed b...
May 29, 2020
Third Asian giant ‘murder’ hornet found in Washington state
(Reuters) - Washington state has confirmed its third sighting of an Asian giant hornet, dubbed the "murder hornet," indicating the invasive, predatory insect has survived the winter in the U.S. Northw...
May 29, 2020
Saturated hospitals, airlifts as California border region virus cases surge
By Laura Gottesdiener MEXICALI, Mexico/EL CENTRO, Calif., (Reuters) - Coronavirus cases are surging in a scorching hot desert region straddling south California and a city near Mexico's Tijuana, leadi...
May 29, 2020
Videos of U.S. police killings spur protest – and sometimes charges
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The decision of Minneapolis prosecutors to criminally charge a police officer four days after the death of George Floyd shows how efforts to hold officers acc...
May 29, 2020
Exclusive: White House kept FDA in the dark on Russian ventilators for New York and New Jersey
By Marisa Taylor (Reuters) - When U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to accept a shipment of ventilators from Russian President Vladimir Putin at the height of the coronavirus outbreak, the White Hous...
May 29, 2020
Epstein estate, victims reach agreement on compensation fund
By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fund to compensate victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse may begin making payouts soon, after the deceased financier's estate, his accusers and the attorn...
May 29, 2020
