Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Michigan sends mail-in vote applications to all registered voters
DETROIT (Reuters) - Michigan will send absentee ballot applications to all registered voters, a state official announced on Tuesday, as the state prepares to hold the Nov. 3 election largely by mail d...
May 19, 2020
Ford requires visitors to wear masks but unclear if Trump will comply
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co on Tuesday reiterated its policy that all visitors to its manufacturing plants must wear a mask but said the White House will ultimately decide...
May 19, 2020
Court rules U.S. environment agency must protect states from upwind air pollution
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated the law when it denied a request from Maryland and Delaware to tighten air pollut...
May 19, 2020
U.S. workers hit McDonald’s with class action over COVID-19 safety
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Five McDonald's workers in Chicago filed a class action lawsuit against the chain on Tuesday, accusing it of failing to adopt government safety guidance on COVID-19 and endange...
May 19, 2020
Ex-Trump aide Flynn asks appeals court to toss criminal charges
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Tuesday asked an appeals court to force a judge to dismiss the criminal charges agai...
May 19, 2020
Elderly home turns to wearables for contact tracing, sidestepping Apple-Google limits
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - When a senior living facility in Amarillo, Texas suspected a nurse may have caught the novel coronavirus this month, it had a list within five minutes of sta...
May 19, 2020
Top Senate Republican says still mulling if more coronavirus relief needed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican leader of the U.S. Senate said on Tuesday the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress were still evaluating the need for more coronavirus relief legislat...
May 19, 2020
Trump defends his use of unproven treatment for coronavirus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his use of prescription malaria drug to try to ward off the novel coronavirus despite medical warnings, saying it was up to indiv...
May 19, 2020
U.S. charges Texas man with $5 million-plus coronavirus loan fraud
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal prosecutors charged a Texas man on Tuesday with fraudulently seeking $5 million in loans from an emergency program established to ease the economi...
May 19, 2020
Missouri plans first U.S. execution since pandemic began
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A Missouri man who was convicted of stabbing to death an elderly trailer park manager three decades ago is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday, m...
May 19, 2020
