Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Renault and Nissan rebuild their alliance to ride out the coronavirus storm
By Naomi Tajitsu and Gilles Guillaume TOKYO/PARIS (Reuters) - When Renault SA , Nissan Motor Co and Mitsubishi Motors Corp announced the last strategy plan for their Alliance in September 2017, the go...
May 26, 2020
Twitter places fact-check notification on Trump tweet about mail-in ballots
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter on Tuesday placed a notification fact-checking tweets sent by President Donald Trump claiming that mail-in ballots will be "substantially fraudulent" and result in a ...
May 26, 2020
House Republicans to sue Pelosi over rule changes allowing remote proxy voting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Republicans will sue Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi over rule changes that allow remote proxy voting, Republican aides said on Tuesday. The lawsui...
May 26, 2020
Biden wins AFL-CIO endorsement as he seeks to recapture blue-collar vote
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - The AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. coalition of labor unions, endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president on Tuesday, promising to launch an effort to beat Republican President...
May 26, 2020
Four Minneapolis policemen fired after death of unarmed black man
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Four Minneapolis police officers were fired on Tuesday, a day after a bystander's cell phone video captured one of them kneeling on the neck of an unarmed black man who ...
May 26, 2020
Factbox: Biden wants a woman to be his running mate. Here are some names under consideration
By Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) - The vetting process is underway to help presumptive Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden pick his running mate for the Nov. 3 election. Biden has vowed to cho...
May 26, 2020
Biden hires voting rights director as absentee ballot battle heats up
DETROIT (Reuters) - Joe Biden hired a senior staffer to work on voter protection issues, his presidential campaign said on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump again blasted states' efforts to expand vo...
May 26, 2020
U.S. lawmaker wants insurers and taxpayers to share payouts for future pandemic business losses
By Suzanne Barlyn (Reuters) - U.S. legislation introduced on Tuesday would create a taxpayer-backed insurance program to protect businesses from revenue losses during future pandemics and require insu...
May 26, 2020
Barbershops to open as COVID-19 rules ease in parts of California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Barbershops and hair salons may open with modifications in parts of California where public health officials can show it is safe, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Tuesday, ...
May 26, 2020
U.S. judge throws out Trump policy favoring drilling over sage grouse protection
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge in Montana has thrown out a Trump administration directive that weakened an Obama-era policy aimed at protecting a threatened Western bird, invalidating hundreds of oil and ga...
May 26, 2020
