Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
CDC head warns pregnant women with COVID-19 face greater risks
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pregnant women have increased risk of severe COVID-19 compared to women who are not pregnant, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention Robert Redfield told reporters on...
Jun 25, 2020
Amazon gold rush: illegal mining threatens Brazil’s last major isolated tribe
By Simon Scarr and Anthony Boadle (Reuters) - Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil's indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of the Amazon rainforest,...
Jun 25, 2020
Calls to defund police on collision course with U.S. city budget gaps
By Karen Pierog CHICAGO (Reuters) - A movement in the United States to defund local police departments, sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, is colliding with a grim budget reality fac...
Jun 25, 2020
Texas temporarily halts phased reopening as COVID-19 infections surge
(Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Thursday that he was temporarily halting the state's phased economic reopening in response to a jump in recent COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. ...
Jun 25, 2020
Coronavirus may have infected 10 times more Americans than reported, CDC says
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government experts believe more than 20 million Americans could have contracted the coronavirus, 10 times more than official counts, indicating many people with...
Jun 25, 2020
Trump touts manufacturing on trip to Wisconsin, where he lags Biden in polls
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, trailing in national opinion polls ahead of the November election, will visit a shipbuilding facility in Wisconsin on Thursday to tout his ...
Jun 25, 2020
Coronavirus kills 93 U.S. meatpacking workers, union says
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The largest U.S. meatpacking union said on Thursday that 93 meatpacking and food-processing workers have died from COVID-19 and employees continue to face risks from the new corona...
Jun 25, 2020
District of Columbia sues four oil majors for misleading consumers on climate change
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The attorney general for the District of Columbia on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp , BP Plc , Chevron Corp , and Royal Dutch Shell Plc f...
Jun 25, 2020
Colorado activists revive anti-fracking ballot initiative
By Liz Hampton DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado environmental group is reviving a push to get an anti-fracking measure on the U.S. state's November ballot, just two weeks after a prior sponsor said it wa...
Jun 25, 2020
Cuomo says New York ‘bent the curve’ as new COVID-19 cases keep rising in other states
By Peter Szekely NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo celebrated a new milestone of declining coronavirus hospitalizations in his state on Thursday as the number of new cases elsewhere ...
Jun 25, 2020
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