Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Plane carrying Kremlin critic Navalny lands in Berlin – flight tracking data
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - An ambulance aircraft carrying gravely ill Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny landed at Berlin's Tegel airport on Saturday morning, according to flight tracking data. German doctors h...
Aug 22, 2020
Novartis immuno-oncology drug candidate fails skin cancer trial
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis said on Saturday that its investigational spartalizumab immuno-oncology drug mixed with the approved medicines Tafinlar and Mekinist failed in a late-stage ...
Aug 22, 2020
Stricken Kremlin critic Navalny en route to Germany
OMSK, Russia (Reuters) - A plane carrying Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny took off from the Russian city of Omsk early on Saturday headed for Germany, his spokeswoman said on Twitter. Gra...
Aug 21, 2020
Moderna says more than 40% of participants enrolled for COVID-19 vaccine trial
(Reuters) - Drug developer Moderna Inc on Friday said it has so far enrolled 13,194 participants in the ongoing late-stage 30,000-volunteer U.S. trial testing its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. In a twee...
Aug 21, 2020
‘Pure joy’: Giant panda at U.S. National Zoo gives birth to healthy cub
(Reuters) - Giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth to a healthy cub on Friday at the National Zoo in Washington, and immediately began nursing and cuddling the tiny new arrival, animal care staff said. It w...
Aug 21, 2020
Arizona voters put tax to fund education, recreational marijuana on November ballot
By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Voters will decide in November whether to pump $940 million into education by taxing Arizona's highest earners and make the state the 11th in the nation to legali...
Aug 21, 2020
U.S. closes lanes, adds checks at Mexico border to contain coronavirus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday closed lanes at select ports of entry at the border with Mexico and will conduct more secondary checks in a bid to limit non-essential travel and the...
Aug 21, 2020
Exclusive: No. 2 U.S. diplomat to visit Russia, Lithuania to discuss Belarus – sources
By Jonathan Landay and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number two U.S. diplomat will visit Russia and Lithuania soon for talks on Belarus, two sources familiar with the matter said on Frida...
Aug 21, 2020
Exclusive: TikTok to challenge U.S. order banning transactions with the video app – sources
By Echo Wang and David Shepardson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - TikTok is preparing to mount a legal challenge as early as Monday to President Donald Trump's executive order prohibiting transactions...
Aug 21, 2020
Limited transmission of COVID-19 found in U.S. childcare study, CDC says
(Reuters) - Transmission of COVID-19 from children or adults to other people in Rhode Island childcare programs occurred on only a limited basis, a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Aug 21, 2020
