Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. veterans agency has given hydroxychloroquine to 1,300 coronavirus patients
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has treated 1,300 coronavirus patients with the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which a study has tied to an increased risk of deat...
May 22, 2020
Lockdown-weary Americans hit the road to U.S. holiday weekend
By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - Americans are back on the road after more than two months of coronavirus lockdowns that kept them homebound, with beach-area traffic tripling since the low point in mid-Apri...
May 22, 2020
Enjoying your ‘to-go’ cocktail? New York bill would keep it going beyond pandemic
By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Reuters) - For many New Yorkers, one of the only good things to come out of the coronavirus pandemic is a temporary relaxation of some state regulations, allowing people to ...
May 22, 2020
Beyond politics, gold-standard COVID-19 trials test malaria drug taken by Trump
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - In the fight against COVID-19, the decades-old anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine has become a political football, with U.S. President Donald Trump personally taking it a...
May 22, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 1,571,617 coronavirus cases, 94,150 deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday reported 1,571,617 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 20,522 cases from its previous count, and said that the ...
May 22, 2020
FBI identifies slain suspect in Texas Navy base shooting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The suspect who was slain at the scene of Thursday's "terrorism-related" shooting at a U.S. naval air base in Texas has been identified as 20-year-old Adam Aalim Alsahli, the FB...
May 22, 2020
Coronavirus vaccine safe in early trial; hydroxychloroquine may increase death risk
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caus...
May 22, 2020
U.S. charges Hollywood film distributor with defrauding BlackRock fund
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Friday charged the founder and former owner of a Hollywood movie production and distribution company with defrauding a BlackRock Inc invest...
May 22, 2020
Organizers cancel 2020 New York auto show
By David Shepardson (Reuters) - Organizers said Friday they were canceling the 2020 New York auto show that had previously been pushed back until August, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and th...
May 22, 2020
Biden says radio host ‘ain’t black’ if undecided about U.S. election
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - Former Vice President Joe Biden told a black radio host in an interview broadcast on Friday that he "ain't black" if he was still weighing whether to support him or incu...
May 22, 2020
