Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Exclusive: ByteDance asks TikTok to draw up U.S. shutdown contingencies: sources
By Echo Wang and Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) - China's ByteDance told engineers of its popular short-video app TikTok this week to make contingencies should it need to shut down its U.S. operations, ev...
Aug 27, 2020
Trump must turn over tax returns, does not deserve immunity, Manhattan’s top prosecutor says
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Manhattan's top prosecutor told a U.S. appeals court on Thursday he should be able to obtain Donald Trump's tax returns, saying the U.S. president should not be allowed to effecti...
Aug 27, 2020
Bayer-Roundup $11 billion deal at risk of collapse, judge says: Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - German drugs company Bayer AG's $11 billion settlement of thousands of U.S. lawsuits over its Roundup weed killer is less defined than the company disclosed, a judge overseeing the suits s...
Aug 27, 2020
Differences over coronavirus aid remain, Pelosi says after talks with White House aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after talks with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Thursday that Democrats and Republicans remain far apart over...
Aug 27, 2020
Voting rights groups ask U.S. judge to require more ballot drop boxes in Ohio
By Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several voting rights' group have asked a federal judge to force Ohio to expand the number of ballot drop boxes in the upcoming presidential election, the lates...
Aug 27, 2020
Tesla shares surge to record high, leaving rivals behind
By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - Tesla Inc shares continued their meteoric rise on Thursday, scoring yet another record high and further expanding the distance between the Silicon Valley electric carmaker a...
Aug 27, 2020
Laura largely misses U.S. cotton, sugar fields; rains to skip dry Midwest grain belt
By Karl Plume (Reuters) - The U.S. agricultural sector was spared a direct hit from Hurricane Laura on Thursday as the storm veered west of grain export terminals in New Orleans and missed many fields...
Aug 27, 2020
Michigan official slams racial ‘stereotypes’ in mail-voting robocalls
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top official in the Michigan, a battleground U.S. election state, on Thursday condemned a computerized phone call campaign for using "racially charged stereotypes" to discoura...
Aug 27, 2020
Bill Gates’ nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A nuclear energy venture founded by Bill Gates said Thursday it hopes to build small advanced nuclear power stations that can store electricity to supplement ...
Aug 27, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 178,998 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday said the number of deaths due to the coronavirus had risen by 1,239 to 178,998 and also reported 5,799,046 cases, an i...
Aug 27, 2020
