Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Could coronavirus help Amazon workers unionize?
By Nandita Bose and Krystal Hu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Warehouse employees last month staged a walkout in Michigan to demand safer working conditions at their facility. So did workers in New York, Illi...
May 21, 2020
NY City escapees to Hamptons can get coronavirus house-calls
By Anna Irrera NEW YORK (Reuters) - An elite medical-services provider will start offering in-home coronavirus testing and treatment in the Hamptons, where many of New York City's wealthy residents ha...
May 21, 2020
Exclusive: A quarter of Americans are hesitant about a coronavirus vaccine – Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Joseph Ax and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - A quarter of Americans have little or no interest in taking a coronavirus vaccine, a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Thursday found, with some voicing co...
May 21, 2020
Futures retreat as trade tensions add to pandemic woes
By Ambar Warrick (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Thursday as growing trade tensions with China added to worries about the pace of a recovery from a coronavirus-fueled economic slump even ...
May 21, 2020
Gap rushes in more robots to warehouses to solve virus disruption
By Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. apparel chain Gap Inc is speeding up its rollout of warehouse robots for assembling online orders so it can limit human contact during the coronavirus ...
May 21, 2020
Divided by COVID-19: Democratic U.S. areas hit three times as hard as Republican ones
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As America's response to the coronavirus pandemic splits along partisan lines, a Reuters analysis may help explain why: Death rates in Democratic areas are trip...
May 21, 2020
U.S. masses planes at Japan base to show foes and allies it can handle coronavirus
By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Air Force transport aircraft on Thursday massed at Washington's key Asian military air transportation hub, Yokota Air Base in Japan, to show potential foes and alli...
May 21, 2020
U.S. orders 300 million doses of potential COVID-19 vaccine
(Reuters) - The U.S. government has ordered 300 million doses of a potential COVID-19 virus being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and hopes first doses can be made available by October,...
May 21, 2020
AstraZeneca gets first supply agreements for COVID-19 vaccine
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc said on Thursday it had received the first agreements to supply at least 400 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with the University of Oxford. The Briti...
May 21, 2020
Wanted: New head of WTO. Must thrive under global pressure and conflict
By Emma Farge and Philip Blenkinsop GENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, steep recession, intensifying U.S-China tensions and rising protectionism, the WTO needs to n...
May 21, 2020
