Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Biden gets no convention bounce after Democratic gathering: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden saw no bounce in popular support after last week's Democratic National Convention, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll rele...
Aug 26, 2020
Mike Pence to make case for Trump re-election in Republican convention star turn
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Mike Pence takes center stage at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday to make the case that his boss, President Donald Trump, will bring ...
Aug 26, 2020
Laura to strengthen to category four hurricane by Wednesday: U.S NHC
(Reuters) - Hurricane Laura is expected to strengthen rapidly into a category 4 hurricane on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Laura, currently a category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-S...
Aug 26, 2020
Protesters rounded up in Belarus; Nobel-winning writer due for questioning
By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) - Belarusian police have rounded up dozens of protesters heading home from peaceful demonstrations, rights groups said on Wednesday, after days in which the authori...
Aug 26, 2020
U.S. to spend $625 million in five quantum information research hubs
By Jane Lanhee Lee SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday said it will provide $625 million over the next five years for five newly formed quantum information research hu...
Aug 26, 2020
U.S. rejects U.N. rights panel upholding access to abortions during pandemic
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday hit back at a U.N. women's rights panel that said some U.S. states limited access to abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic, reje...
Aug 26, 2020
‘Polishing the gun’: China, U.S. tensions raise Taiwan conflict fears
By Ben Blanchard and Yew Lun Tian TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Numerous Chinese and U.S. military exercises, Taiwan missiles tracking Chinese fighters and plummeting China-U.S. ties make for a heady coc...
Aug 26, 2020
Navalny ally says only Putin could have authorised suspected poisoning
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A senior ally of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday he believed only President Vladimir Putin could have authorised the suspected poisoning of the outspo...
Aug 26, 2020
Police arrest 64 in Louisville anti-racism protests
(Reuters) - Police arrested more than 60 people on Tuesday in a protest march in Louisville, Kentucky, organized for Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed in March by police officers who burst into her...
Aug 26, 2020
Shots fired on third night of Wisconsin unrest over police shooting of Black man
(Reuters) - Three people were shot, one of them fatally, as gunfire broke out on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on the third straight night of unrest sparked by the police shooting of a Black man,...
Aug 26, 2020
