Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Special Report: Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace
By Nichola Groom SALYERSVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - In May 2012, Hanson and Michael Rowe noticed an overpowering smell, like rotten eggs, seeping from an abandoned gas well on their land in Kentucky. ...
Syndicated Content Jun 16, 2020
COVID-19 cases surging in Alabama, South Carolina and Oklahoma
By Chris Canipe and Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - New cases of COVID-19 nearly doubled in Alabama and South Carolina in the second week of June compared to the prior seven days, a Reuters analysis found, ...
Syndicated Content Jun 16, 2020
Explainer: The coronavirus risks of everyday activities as economies reopen
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans have started returning to more normal lifestyles with the end of coronavirus lockdowns. But what activities are safe? Reuters asked five epidemiologists and public healt...
Syndicated Content Jun 16, 2020
U.S. health insurers may balk at paying for coronavirus antibody testing
By Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. health insurers may balk at covering tests that look for coronavirus antibodies in some cases, arguing that employers or the government should foot a bill e...
Syndicated Content Jun 16, 2020
Insight: Hat in hand: U.S. scientists scramble to support their COVID immunity research
By Nick Brown (Reuters) - It wasn't easy to build a COVID-19 antibody test during Illinois' statewide lockdown. In April, when a key enzyme couldn't be delivered to his shuttered laboratory, Northwest...
Syndicated Content Jun 16, 2020
Did elite David Boies law firm get a pandemic bailout? It’s a secret
By Caroline and Spiezio (Reuters) - When the U.S. government announced a multibillion-dollar bailout of struggling small businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic, one of the top U.S. law firms sensed ...
Syndicated Content Jun 16, 2020
Texas to execute man convicted of killing elderly woman during robbery
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A Texas man who was convicted of stabbing to death an elderly mobile-home park owner during a robbery with two accomplices two decades ago is scheduled to be executed by...
Syndicated Content Jun 16, 2020
Futures jump on stimulus hopes ahead of retail sales report
By Medha Singh and Devik Jain (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures jumped on Tuesday on hopes that aggressive fiscal and monetary stimulus would kick start an economy crushed by the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Syndicated Content Jun 16, 2020
American wanted by FBI arrested in Indonesia for suspected child sex crimes
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A U.S. national wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation over a bitcoin scam has been arrested in Indonesia and charged under a child protection law for suspected sex crimes, ...
Syndicated Content Jun 16, 2020
EU antitrust regulators to investigate Apple’s App Store, Apple Pay
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators opened on Tuesday two investigations into Apple regarding its App Store and Apple Pay, saying restrictions imposed by the iPhone maker may have breached EU...
Syndicated Content Jun 16, 2020
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