Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Exclusive: Third Point founder Daniel Loeb takes over as Munib Islam leaves firm
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Daniel Loeb is taking back the reins as sole chief investment officer at his hedge fund Third Point LLC, less than one year after he appo...
May 19, 2020
Johnson & Johnson to stop selling talc-based baby powder in U.S., Canada
By Carl O'Donnell (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday announced that it would stop selling its talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder in the United States and Canada, saying it was part of a broad reas...
May 19, 2020
Explainer: Do children spread COVID-19? Risks as schools consider reopening
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - As countries begin to emerge from shutdowns imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, the issue of how the virus affects children and whether schools should be reopened is ...
May 19, 2020
Plaintiff in Roe v. Wade U.S. abortion case says she was paid to switch sides
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Norma McCorvey, the woman known as "Jane Roe" in the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion, said she was lying when she switc...
May 19, 2020
Venezuelans clamor for gasoline as U.S. weighs response to Iran fuel shipment
By Mayela Armas and Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) - With the United States weighing a response to a gasoline shipment from Iran to Venezuela, people waiting in line outside service stations in the ...
May 19, 2020
NASA human spaceflight chief resigns ahead of launch
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) - NASA's human spaceflight chief Doug Loverro resigned on Tuesday, according to an internal memo seen by agency employees, capping his brief role at the agency overseeing fu...
May 19, 2020
Widow of late John Glenn, first American to orbit Earth, dies at 100 of COVID-19
(Reuters) - Annie Glenn, philanthropist and the widow of pioneering astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn, died at age 100 early on Tuesday at a Minnesota nursing home from complications of COVID-19, ...
May 19, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 1,504,830 coronavirus cases, 90,340 deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 1,504,830 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 24,481 cases from its previous count, and said that the...
May 19, 2020
Exclusive: In veiled warning to Iran, U.S. tells Gulf mariners to stay clear of its warships
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In an alert that appeared aimed squarely at Iran, the U.S. Navy issued a warning on Tuesday to mariners in the Gulf to stay 100 meters (yards) awa...
May 19, 2020
Trump says he will sign order to cut federal regulations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will sign an executive order directing federal agencies to eliminate "unnecessary regulations that impede economic recovery." "I'm...
May 19, 2020
