Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Exclusive: Marriott says ordered by Trump administration to cease Cuba hotel business
HAVANA (Reuters) - Marriott International, the only U.S. company to run a hotel in Communist-run Cuba, the Four Points Sheraton in Havana, told Reuters it had been ordered by the Trump administration ...
Jun 05, 2020
Protests against police violence sweep across small-town America
By Brian Munoz and Mica Rosenberg ANNA, Illinois/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Before sundown on Thursday around 150 protesters marched down the main street in Anna, Illinois, past Bob's Tavern, Oasis of Grace...
Jun 05, 2020
‘Your Pain Is My Pain’: global anti-racism protests rage
FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - Protesters around the world took to the streets again on Friday, despite coronavirus warnings, in a wave of outrage at the death of African American George Floyd in the Un...
Jun 05, 2020
Wear masks in public says WHO, in update of COVID-19 advice
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) updated its guidance on Friday to recommend that governments ask everyone to wear fabric face masks in public areas where there i...
Jun 05, 2020
Trump calls for shift in coronavirus strategy to allow for end to lockdowns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday called for a shift in strategy against the coronavirus pandemic to focus resources on protecting "high-risk populations" as he pushes for a...
Jun 05, 2020
Trump expected to allow commercial fishing in protected Atlantic waters: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is expected to sign a proclamation on Friday that would open up a marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean to commercial fishing during a meeting wi...
Jun 05, 2020
Trump suggests governors call in National Guard to ‘dominate the streets’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he had suggested to some governors to call in the National Guard in the face of mostly peaceful nationwide protests sparked by the dea...
Jun 05, 2020
Whitmer to allow haircuts in Michigan in latest step to open economy
DETROIT (Reuters) - Hair salons and barbers in Michigan will be allowed to resume business on June 15, Governor Gretchen Whitmer said on Friday, the latest step to reopen the state's economy shut for ...
Jun 05, 2020
Special Report: Meet the masters of social distancing – Couple live alone in wilderness for decades
By Joshua Schneyer SOMEWHERE NEAR RESERVE, New Mexico (Reuters) - To leave society behind was a wedding vow Wendell and Mariann spoke only to each other. It was a solemn one, though, and to save for i...
Jun 05, 2020
UK halts trial of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients after no benefit found
LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists halted a large trial on Monday that had been exploring the use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in patients with the pandemic disease COVID-19 after in...
Jun 05, 2020
