Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Special Report: Bolsonaro brought in his generals to fight coronavirus. Brazil is losing the battle
By Stephen Eisenhammer and Gabriel Stargardter SO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - In mid-March, Brazil took what seemed to be a forceful early strike against the coronavirus pandemic. The Health Mini...
May 26, 2020
Merck leaps into COVID-19 development fray with vaccine, drug deals
By Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman CHICAGO (Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc , which has largely kept to the sidelines of the race for COVID-19 treatments, said it was buying Austrian vaccine maker Themi...
May 26, 2020
U.S. small firms leave $150 billion in coronavirus stimulus untapped
By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the U.S. government first rolled out forgivable loans to small businesses in early April under the Paycheck Protection Prog...
May 26, 2020
Wilderness camps to $50,000 RV rentals: Luxury travelers in pandemic ready to pay for privacy
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - Before the coronavirus pandemic, Melanie Burns and her husband between them had planned five trips between April and September, including three to Europe. With only one sti...
May 26, 2020
A Florida toy importer braces for retail upheaval
By Rajesh Kumar Singh (Reuters) - Most U.S. states have begun to reopen their economies, but Jay Foreman, chief executive of Basic Fun, said he's more worried than ever. The Boca Raton, Florida import...
May 26, 2020
‘How about next June?’ Small meat processors backlogged as virus idles big plants
By P.J. Huffstutter and Rod Nickel CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Inside the small-scale Iowa abattoir Stanhope Locker and Market, owner Shaunna Zanker yawns with exhaustion as she listens to ...
May 26, 2020
UK COVID-19 death toll tops 47,000
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's COVID-19 death toll surpassed 47,000 on Tuesday, a dire human cost that could define the premiership of Boris Johnson. The Office for National Statistics said 4...
May 26, 2020
Australian media face trial over Pell sex abuse case reporting
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Dozens of Australian journalists and publishers are set to face trial in November over coverage of ex-Vatican treasurer George Pell's child sex abuse conviction in 2018, facing c...
May 26, 2020
A pregnant doctor navigates COVID-19 fight in low income Los Angeles
By Kristina Cooke and Lucy Nicholson LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After putting a coronavirus patient onto a ventilator to help him to breathe, Dr. Zafia Anklesaria noted to herself that her baby never kic...
May 26, 2020
China’s coronavirus campaign offers glimpse into surveillance system
By Cate Cadell BEIJING (Reuters) - The coronavirus outbreak in China has given unprecedented glimpses into how an extensive system of surveillance cameras works, as monitoring stations are rebranded e...
May 26, 2020
