Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Why U.S. energy CEOs will get big payouts despite oil meltdown
By Tim McLaughlin and David French BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - National Oilwell Varco Inc (NOV) has had a rough few years: Since 2017, the Houston company, whose drilling equipment is in major oilfiel...
May 27, 2020
Coronavirus pushes global credit rating downgrade threat to record high
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The number of companies or countries at risk of having their credit ratings cut has been pushed to an all-time high by the coronavirus pandemic, S&P Global analysis sh...
May 27, 2020
Futures climb as economic recovery hopes outweigh Sino-U.S. tensions
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures advanced on Wednesday as hopes of an economic recovery eclipsed worries over simmering tensions between the United States and China. Unprecedented m...
May 27, 2020
As coronavirus ‘storm cloud’ gathers, black church in Missouri braces for mourning
By Makini Brice (Reuters) - When Traci Blackmon, the senior pastor for a predominantly black church in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, is finally able to open the doors for service again, one of h...
May 27, 2020
NASA set to resume human spaceflight from U.S. soil with historic SpaceX launch
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, was set to launch two Americans into orbit on Wednesday from Florida on a mi...
May 27, 2020
‘She is worried’: Pandemic raises fears for pregnant U.S. inmates
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Guadalupe Velazquez has a college degree, owns a flooring company and is pregnant with a baby girl due next month. Velazquez, 30, is also terrified of contract...
May 27, 2020
France bans hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government on Wednesday cancelled a decree allowing hospital doctors to administer hydroxychloroquine as a treatment to patients suffering severe forms of COVID-19, the il...
May 27, 2020
Ryanair says holiday bookings surge, sees Britain dropping quarantine
By Conor Humphries DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair expects Britain to join European nations in dropping COVID-19 quarantine plans in the coming weeks, Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said in an interview o...
May 27, 2020
Huawei Meng’s U.S. extradition case hinges on key ruling in Canada on Wednesday
By Moira Warburton and Tessa Vikander TORONTO/VANCOUVER (Reuters) - A Canadian judge will rule Wednesday on a key aspect of Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's extradition to th...
May 27, 2020
Exclusive: U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan down to close to 8,600 ahead of schedule – U.S. and NATO officials
By Idrees Ali and Rupam Jain WASHINGTON/MUMBAI (Reuters) - U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan is down to nearly 8,600, well ahead of a schedule agreed with Taliban militants in late February, in part ...
May 27, 2020
