Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Spiking U.S. gun sales deluge FBI’s background check system, cause delays
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - A surge in people buying guns since the coronavirus pandemic began has flooded the FBI's background check system, causing a spike in the number of delayed checks and allowin...
Sep 15, 2020
U.S. import prices increase more than expected in August
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. import prices increased more than expected in August and gains in the prior month were revised sharply higher, supporting views that inflation pressures were building up. T...
Sep 15, 2020
Louisville to announce settlement in Breonna Taylor shooting: Courier Journal
(Reuters) - The city government of Louisville, Kentucky, is expected to announce on Tuesday a financial settlement with the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman fatally shot by police in March, the...
Sep 15, 2020
Trump says not pressing U.S. government for coronavirus vaccine for political reasons
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday told Fox News he is not pressuring the U.S. government for a vaccine against the deadly coronavirus for political reasons. "I'm not doing it fo...
Sep 15, 2020
Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers to unveil $1.5 trillion COVID-19 aid bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 50 Democratic and Republican members of Congress are due to unveil a $1.5 trillion bipartisan coronavirus relief legislation on Tuesday, in an election year effort to...
Sep 15, 2020
Migrants stranded by Lesbos fire resist new temporary camp
LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) - Thousands of migrants stranded on Lesbos since a fire destroyed their camp last week refused to move into a new facility set up to house them on Tuesday, demanding instead t...
Sep 15, 2020
As Arab Gulf starts opening to Israel, Palestinians face a reckoning
By Rami Ayyub JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's rapprochement with Gulf Arab states has left the Palestinians feeling abandoned by traditional allies and clutching an old playbook in a rapidly changing M...
Sep 15, 2020
Futures advance ahead of two-day Fed meet
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Tuesday as upbeat data from China revived optimism around an economic rebound, while investors looked for more stimulus from the Federal Res...
Sep 15, 2020
Kremlin critic Navalny posts photo from hospital, says he can breathe independently
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny shared a photograph from a Berlin hospital on Tuesday, sitting up in bed and surrounded by his family, and said he could now breathe ind...
Sep 15, 2020
WHO praises AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial pause
GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Health Organization official on Tuesday said that the decision by AstraZeneca to pause global trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine after an unexplained illness sho...
Sep 15, 2020
