Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
New York governor to meet with U.S. President Trump, talk infrastructure spending
(Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he would travel to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump on Wednesday and planned to discuss major investments in infrastructure as a way to ju...
May 26, 2020
Kudlow says Trump administration looking at ‘back to work bonus’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's administration is looking carefully at a potential "back to work bonus" to encourage Amer...
May 26, 2020
Pentagon’s deputy inspector general resigns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's deputy inspector general Glenn Fine resigned from his position on Tuesday, more than a month after President Donald Trump removed Fine as the Pentagon's acting in...
May 26, 2020
Ex-biotech CEO pleads guilty in U.S. college admissions scandal
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A former biotech chief executive on Tuesday became the latest parent to plead guilty in the U.S. college admissions scandal by admitting he paid a tennis coach $50,0...
May 26, 2020
WHO says hydroxychloroquine safety findings expected by mid-June
ZURICH (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that a safety team would review data on hydroxychloroquine by next month, a day after officials cited safety concerns that prompt...
May 26, 2020
60% of U.S. adults plan to get seasonal flu vaccine: Reuters/Ipsos poll
(Reuters) - About 60% of U.S. adults either plan to or definitely will get the flu vaccine in the fall amid the coronavirus pandemic, with more Americans who identified themselves as Democrats plannin...
May 26, 2020
Wall Street set to surge at open on recovery, vaccine hopes
By Medha Singh and Uday Sampath Kumar (Reuters) - Wall Street was set to surge at the open, with the S&P 500 poised to breach a major technical barrier on Tuesday as business restarts and optimism abo...
May 26, 2020
Where U.S. coronavirus cases are on the rise
By Chris Canipe and Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - Twenty U.S. states reported an increase in new cases of COVID-19 for the week ended May 24, up from 13 states in the prior week, as the death toll from th...
May 26, 2020
Fears of coronavirus second wave prompt flu push at U.S. pharmacies, drugmakers
By Caroline Humer and Julie Steenhuysen NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. pharmacy chains are preparing a big push for flu vaccinations when the season kicks off in October, hoping to curb tens of thousands o...
May 26, 2020
Musk’s SpaceX set for debut astronaut mission, renewing NASA’s crewed launch program
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to launch two American astronauts to the International Space Station on Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Cen...
May 26, 2020
