Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
U.S. international airline passenger contact tracing plan stalls, sources say
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration's efforts to require airlines to collect contact tracing information from U.S.-bound international passengers has stalled, five peop...
Aug 21, 2020
U.S. Postal Service launches election mail website ahead of elections
(Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service said on Friday it has launched a new election mail website, as a part of its efforts to ensure voters have correct information about voting by mail for the November...
Aug 21, 2020
What’s at stake in California’s November gig worker ballot measure
By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - After a California appeals court on Thursday halted a law requiring the reclassification of ride-hail drivers of Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc as employees, the decisio...
Aug 21, 2020
Closely watched ‘Tenet’ earns critical praise as U.S. cinemas reopen
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Christopher Nolan's new thriller "Tenet" received warm reviews on Friday as U.S. cinema chains reopened with industry-wide safety measures aimed at re...
Aug 21, 2020
Delta pilot union says 1,806 pilots taking early retirement
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The union representing Delta Air Lines pilots said on Friday that 1,806 had agreed to early retirement programs, spurring talks with management to avoid furloughs as the airline co...
Aug 21, 2020
Exclusive: Nearly a fifth of enrollees in Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine study are Black or Latino: executive
By Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly a fifth of 11,000 people enrolled so far in a 30,000-volunteer U.S. trial testing a COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and German p...
Aug 21, 2020
Democratic convention’s closing night TV audience rises in early estimates
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The closing night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention attracted roughly 21.8 million primetime television viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen data, suggesting the ...
Aug 21, 2020
Two storms head for U.S. Gulf in rare hurricane season event
By Liz Hampton (Reuters) - A pair of tropical cyclones forecast to become hurricanes early next week are headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast and will spin over the Gulf's warm waters simultaneously, a rare...
Aug 21, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 173,490 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday said the number of deaths due to the new coronavirus had risen by 1,074 to 173,490 and reported 5,551,793 cases, an incr...
Aug 21, 2020
U.S. Coast Guard shuts Corpus Christi ship channel’s Inner Harbor
(Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday said it has closed the Inner Harbor from Harbor Bridge inward of the Port of Corpus Christi ship channel in Texas after a dredging vessel fire. Two injured c...
Aug 21, 2020
