Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. airlines mandating facial coverings for all passengers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest U.S. airlines are moving rapidly to mandate facial coverings for all passengers, with Southwest Airlines Co and Alaska Airlines on Friday joining other major airline...
May 01, 2020
Texas, Ohio join array of U.S. states reopening their economies
By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Reuters) - Texas and Ohio pushed ahead on Friday with a phased relaxation of restrictions that U.S. states put in place weeks ago to curb the coronavirus pandemic, as Georgi...
May 01, 2020
U.S. House panel calls on Amazon’s Bezos to testify on company practices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Friday called on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to testify to the panel about "competition concerns" related to the company's...
May 01, 2020
Trump signs order to bolster the U.S. power system from attacks: Energy Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that seeks to protect the U.S. electricity system from cyber and other attacks, the Energy Department said in a releas...
May 01, 2020
U.S. Republicans push for coronavirus lawsuit immunity for business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republicans in the U.S. Congress displayed a united front on Friday in their drive to include coronavirus-related liability protections for businesses, saying such measu...
May 01, 2020
U.S. manufacturing skids to 11-year low in April as orders sink: ISM
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing activity plunged to an 11-year low in April as the novel coronavirus wreaked havoc on supply chains, supporting analysts' views the economy ...
May 01, 2020
Private schools with significant endowments should return PPP loans: Mnuchin
(Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday private schools with significant endowments and have taken loans from the coronavirus stimulus law should return them. "It has come to...
May 01, 2020
Special Report: How a corporate PR machine is trying to kill a Wall Street tax
By Pete Schroeder and Michelle Price WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Democratic presidential hopefuls descended on New Hampshire prior to the state's Feb. 11 primary, John Tackeff was busy. The 27-year-old ...
May 01, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Biden says sexual assault ‘never happened’
(Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday denied that he sexually assaulted a former Senate aide in 1993, his first public remarks on the subject after he faced intense pr...
May 01, 2020
For small business loan program, forgiveness may be the hardest part
By Michelle Price and Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's $660 billion small business rescue program has stumbled on missing paperwork, technology failure, and the misdirection...
May 01, 2020
