Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Hawaii to allow pre-travel test option to skip quarantine on arrival
(Reuters) - Hawaii Governor David Ige said on Wednesday the state's pre-travel testing progam would give travelers the option of potentially avoiding a 14-day quarantine period on arrival from next mo...
Sep 17, 2020
Exclusive: OPEC+ panel warns of virus impact, sees signs of decline in oil overhang
By Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) - An OPEC+ technical panel warned that a rise in coronavirus cases in some countries may curb oil demand despite signs of economic recovery and initial indicatio...
Sep 17, 2020
Uganda reverses forest destruction by inviting in … loggers
By Elias Biryabarema KALAGALA, Uganda (Reuters) - For decades, farmers hungry for land and families needing firewood whittled away at Uganda's forests, home to endangered gorillas, elephants and chimp...
Sep 17, 2020
In occupied West Bank, Palestinian bloggers see local tourism as defiance
ARTAS, West Bank (Reuters) - Two Palestinian travel bloggers are promoting local Palestinian tourism in the West Bank as an act of defiance against Israeli occupation. The West Bank is scattered with ...
Sep 17, 2020
Defying protests and poverty, Haitians get creative to wed in style
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - As anti-government protesters in Haiti's capital blocked principal roads and clashed with police last year, Stanley Joseph and Daphne Gerard used the city's winding and poth...
Sep 17, 2020
Trump, Biden offer clashing visions on reopening economy
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jason Lange (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic threw millions of Americans out of work, ended the longest U.S. economic expansion on record and undermined a key argument for ...
Sep 17, 2020
Fed’s Powell sees a long road to ‘maximum employment’
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - The way Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sees it, the U.S. labor market has a long way to go to meet the central bank's maximum employment goal and a lot of boxes to t...
Sep 17, 2020
Trump and Biden on race, policing and criminal justice
By Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) - Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, have contrasting records on race and criminal justice, issues that have risen in prominence in...
Sep 17, 2020
Exclusive: Suspected arms dealers moved millions in Somali money transfers, report says
By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali money transfer companies moved more than $3.7 million in cash between suspected weapons traffickers in recent years, including to a Yemeni under U.S. sa...
Sep 17, 2020
Headaches and hospital visits as wildfire smoke blankets the U.S. West
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - The splitting headaches began when smoke from wildfires rolled in around Tim Hunt's suburban Seattle home. Next came a debilitating fatigue. As deadl...
Sep 17, 2020
