Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Michigan to pay $600 million to Flint water crisis victims: newspapers
(Reuters) - The U.S. state of Michigan has reached a settlement to pay about $600 million to victims of the Flint water crisis, three newspapers said late on Wednesday, citing unidentified sources. Th...
Aug 20, 2020
As U.S. schools reopen, concerns grow that kids spread coronavirus
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - U.S. students are returning to school in person and online in the middle of a pandemic, and the stakes for educators and families are rising in the face of emerging resear...
Aug 20, 2020
Trump heads to Biden’s birthplace to blast his record ahead of nomination speech
By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday will travel to the area in the swing state of Pennsylvania where Democratic rival Joe Biden was born to slam his decad...
Aug 20, 2020
Facebook wins preliminary approval to settle facial recognition lawsuit
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc won preliminary approval late on Wednesday from a federal court for settlement of a lawsuit that claimed it illegally collected and stored biometric data of millions of users ...
Aug 19, 2020
‘My life is a miracle’: COVID-19 patient recuperates after four-month ordeal
By Norma Galeana LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles resident Francisco Garcia tested positive for COVID-19 in April and says he doesn't know how he caught it. Now recuperating, the 31-year-old had av...
Aug 19, 2020
Mother of Black man who died after encounter with police in Colorado cancels rally
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The mother of a young Black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by police in Aurora, Colorado, has canceled a planned march to commemorate the one-year a...
Aug 19, 2020
Asia shares set to dip as Fed’s gloom snuffs out Wall St. cheer
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian equities were set to follow Wall Street's late session retreat on Thursday after the Federal Reserve warned the U.S. economy faced a highly uncertain path t...
Aug 19, 2020
Mexicans slam Trump’s idea to tax border crossing cars to fund wall
By Jose Luis Gonzalez CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican officials and border town residents criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday for threatening to levy a tax on cars crossing i...
Aug 19, 2020
North Korea to set five-year economic plan at congress next year
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced that the ruling party will hold a congress next year to decide a new five-year plan, with a party meeting noting serious delays in improving...
Aug 19, 2020
Trump touts convalescent plasma as a coronavirus treatment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted the use of convalescent plasma as a treatment for COVID-19 and suggested a reported decision by regulators to put on hold an emer...
Aug 19, 2020
