Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Children carried COVID-19 home from Utah childcare centers, infecting family members: U.S. report
(Reuters) - Twelve children who likely contracted COVID-19 at three childcare operations in Utah infected some of their parents and siblings, according to a U.S. study, adding to evidence that very yo...
Sep 11, 2020
U.S. Senate committee joins House panel in probing Homeland whistleblower complaint
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate intelligence committee is investigating a whistleblower complaint filed by a former top U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official alleging...
Sep 11, 2020
Fauci disagrees with Trump on coronavirus, cites disturbing U.S. statistics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top government infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Friday he disagreed with President Donald Trump's assessment the United States has "rounded the corner" on the...
Sep 11, 2020
Equity market turmoil seen unlikely to provoke rapid Fed response
By Matt Scuffham NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. stock market pullback has raised hopes that the Federal Reserve will ramp up asset purchases to boost the economy, but the sell-off was not steep enough ...
Sep 11, 2020
Factbox: On climate, it’s Biden’s green revolution versus Trump’s war on red tape
By Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. presidential election pits a politician who plans to tie the country's economic recovery to tackling climate change against ano...
Sep 11, 2020
Exclusive: China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale
By Keith Zhai, Yingzhi Yang and Julie Zhu (Reuters) - Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok's U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut down in...
Sep 11, 2020
Eleven U.S. senators urge internet providers to aid student online schooling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 11 U.S. senators on Friday urged the chief executives of the seven largest U.S. internet providers to temporarily suspend data caps and fees for millions of U.S. scho...
Sep 11, 2020
Police debunk social media misinformation linking Oregon wildfires to activists
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Several Oregon police departments have aimed to debunk misinformation spreading on social media platforms this week, including Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc , blaming...
Sep 11, 2020
Georgia judge rules out referendum on abolishing police department in Black jogger case
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia Superior Court judge ruled on Friday that voters cannot decide to abolish the Glynn County Police Department over its handling of the murder of a Black jogger, an inciden...
Sep 11, 2020
U.S. judge urged to stop Justice Department’s ‘corrupt’ reversal in Flynn case
(Reuters) - A retired judge, appointed by the court to make arguments, on Friday said the U.S. Department of Justice should not be allowed to drop its criminal case against President Donald Trump's fo...
Sep 11, 2020
