Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Monkeys infected with COVID-19 develop immunity in studies, a positive sign for vaccines
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two studies in monkeys published on Wednesday offer some of the first scientific evidence that surviving COVID-19 may result in immunity from reinfection, a po...
May 20, 2020
Climate change turning Antarctica’s snow green
By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Antarctica conjures images of an unbroken white wilderness but blooms of algae are giving parts of the frozen continent an increasingly green tinge. Warming tempera...
May 20, 2020
How photographer captured baby image amid coronavirus lockdown
BURNLEY, England (Reuters) - For Reuters photographer Hannah McKay, a recent trip to take pictures at a hospital in northern England required the kind of planning more typical of a foreign assignment....
May 20, 2020
U.S. arrests two men wanted by Japan over former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn’s escape
BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Wednesday arrested a former Special Forces soldier and another man wanted by Japan on charges that they enabled the escape of former Nissan Motor Co boss Carlos ...
May 20, 2020
Rural Ecuador faces coronavirus outbreak without doctors
By Santiago Arcos and Vicente Gaibor Del Pino CHANDUY, Ecuador (Reuters) - When a group of villagers in the Ecuadorean fishing community of El Real came down with coughs and fevers in early April, nob...
May 20, 2020
JetBlue, United Airlines take more steps to counter coronavirus spread
By Tracy Rucinski (Reuters) - JetBlue Airways Corp and United Airlines Holdings Inc announced fresh safety measures on Wednesday aimed at restoring confidence in travel that has been crushed by the co...
May 20, 2020
Trump threatens to cut off federal money for Michigan over mail-in voting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Michigan's plan to send mail-in voting applications to all voters in the state illegal, without citing a specific law, and threat...
May 20, 2020
Rwanda genocide suspect Kabuga opposes transfer to U.N. tribunal: lawyers
PARIS (Reuters) - Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga has the right to be presumed innocent and opposes being transferred from France to a U.N. tribunal based in Tanzania, his lawyers said in a s...
May 20, 2020
A nurse struggled with COVID-19 trauma. He was found dead in his car
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Becoming a nurse in 2018 was a dream come true for William Coddington. He loved helping people and feeling needed at his West Palm Beach, Florida hospital. The 32-year-...
May 20, 2020
Futures jump as investors hold out for recovery
By Medha Singh and Ambar Warrick (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures climbed on Wednesday as investors clung to hopes of a recovery from a looming coronavirus-fuelled recession amid signs of more cen...
May 20, 2020
