Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Trump’s executive order targets political bias at Twitter and Facebook: draft
By Nandita Bose and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to order a review of a law that has long protected Twitter, Facebook and Alphabet's Google from bein...
May 28, 2020
Riot police deployed across Hong Kong as U.S.-China tensions rise
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Riot police were deployed across Hong Kong on Thursday as lawmakers debated a bill that would criminalise disrespect of China's national anthem, and as the United ...
May 27, 2020
Democrats urge probe of allegations regarding TikTok and children’s privacy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fourteen Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday to urge it to consider probing the short video app TikTo...
May 27, 2020
New wave of U.S. layoffs feared as coronavirus pain deepens
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Job cuts by U.S. state and local governments whose budgets have been crushed fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and more second-wave layoffs in the private sector ...
May 27, 2020
Bid to extend U.S. surveillance tools stalls after Trump threatens veto
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An effort to extend parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) stalled in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump promis...
May 27, 2020
Texas congressman Sam Johnson, conservative former Vietnam POW, dies at 89
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sam Johnson, an Air Force pilot held for nearly seven years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, who later became one of the most conservative members of the U....
May 27, 2020
American Airlines says to cut management and support staff by 30%
By Tracy Rucinski (Reuters) - American Airlines Group Inc must reduce its management and support staff by about 30% and may have to cut frontline employees as it downsizes due to the coronavirus outbr...
May 27, 2020
U.S. business to Trump: Go slowly on Hong Kong response
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Business groups are urging U.S. President Donald Trump to go slowly in responding to Bejing's planned imposition of new national security laws on Hong Kong, warn...
May 27, 2020
Tencent raises $6 billion in largest Asian corporate debt deal this year
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent Holdings Ltd has raised $6 billion in debt, the Chinese technology company said on Thursday, in the largest debt deal by an Asian corporate in 2020. The deal was finalise...
May 27, 2020
As Japan reopens, coronavirus testing slowed by bureaucracy and staff shortages
By Ju-min Park and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - At the beginning of April, a young Japanese sumo wrestler known as Shobushi came down with a fever. His coaches tried calling a local public healt...
May 27, 2020
