Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Futures retreat on doubts over more fiscal stimulus
By Devik Jain (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Friday as investors remained skeptical of more fiscal stimulus needed to shore up a domestic economy hammered by the pandemic-driven recessio...
Sep 25, 2020
Putin calls for reset in cyber ties with U.S., no election meddling – Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin called on Friday for an agreement between Russia and the United States to guarantee not to engage in cyber-meddling in each other's elections and internal a...
Sep 25, 2020
Four stabbed in Paris attack near old Charlie Hebdo office – premier
PARIS (Reuters) - Four people were stabbed on Friday near the old offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris, Prime Minister Jean Castex said. A police source had earlier told Reuters th...
Sep 25, 2020
Biden leads Trump nationally, but race much tighter in key states
By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. presidential race is much closer than national surveys suggest, according to Reuters/Ipsos opinion polls in battleground states that show Democrat Joe Biden...
Sep 25, 2020
Trump Supreme Court pick would slash odds of surprise liberal victories
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid a flurry of major rulings early this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court in an under-the-radar case handed a significant win to Native Americans by finding fo...
Sep 25, 2020
Teenager charged with killing two in Kenosha faces extradition hearing
(Reuters) - Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with killing two people and injuring another during demonstrations on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, faces a court hearing on Friday about his po...
Sep 25, 2020
The ventilators never came: How graft hampered Brazil’s COVID-19 response
By Gram Slattery and Ricardo Brito RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - As COVID-19 patients flooded Rio de Janeiro's public health system from early April to late May, Dr. Pedro Archer found himself making gut...
Sep 25, 2020
Explainer: ‘Naked’ ballots loom over U.S. election, as Trump blasts mail-in voting
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - As Republican President Donald Trump assails the use of mail-in voting, a Pennsylvania court decision over the use of envelopes for hiding the identity of mail-in voters could...
Sep 25, 2020
Pioneering Justice Ginsburg makes history again with U.S. Capitol honor
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion of gender equality, will make history again on Friday as the first woman and the first Jewish person t...
Sep 25, 2020
Special Report: Will your mail ballot count in the U.S. presidential election? It may depend on who’s counting and where
By Julia Harte, Jason Lange and Simon Lewis (Reuters) - Two elderly women in small towns in Wisconsin voted by mail during April's presidential nominating contests. Both were sheltering in place as co...
Sep 25, 2020
