Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Russia says many coronavirus patients died of other causes. Some disagree
By Polina Ivanova and Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Before she died in a Moscow hospital earlier this month, Liubov Kashaeva, 74, twice tested positive for the new coronavirus. Her death was not ...
May 19, 2020
Some signs children may not transmit COVID-19, two UK epidemiologists say
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - There are tentative signs that children may not spread the novel coronavirus as much as adults, two top epidemiologists said on Tuesday, though they cautioned t...
May 19, 2020
As coronavirus crushes small restaurants, big chains see room to move in
By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prime storefronts left empty by failed businesses. Cheaper or even flexible rents. Landlords willing to add drive-thru lanes. As the coronavirus permanently shutter...
May 19, 2020
Wall Street set to retreat as Home Depot results weigh
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures eased on Tuesday, handing back gains from the S&P 500's best day in six weeks in the previous session, as disappointing results from Home Depot weig...
May 19, 2020
U.S. guitar maker PRS resumes hand-building instruments – at a safe distance
By Andrea Shalal STEVENSVILLE, Md. (Reuters) - Maryland's decision to reopen non-essential businesses came just in time for high-end guitar maker PRS Guitars, which kept 374 workers on its payroll dur...
May 19, 2020
Crowded field vies to replace Oregon’s only Republican congressman
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only Republican member of the U.S. Congress from Oregon is retiring, setting off a mad scramble to replace him that may be largely resolved in a Tuesday pr...
May 19, 2020
Crucial Latino voters seek more attention from Biden
By Saundra Amrhein and Simon Lewis TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Like many Puerto Ricans, Wilson Rivera holds President Donald Trump responsible for what he sees as the U.S. government's inadequate response...
May 19, 2020
Lesotho prime minister Thomas Thabane resigns
MASERU (Reuters) - Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane resigned on Tuesday as leader of the small southern African mountain kingdom, he announced on the national broadcaster. "I plead with the ent...
May 19, 2020
Regulator asks for Credit Suisse directors’ mobile data in spy inquiry: sources
By John O'Donnell, Oliver Hirt and Koh Gui Qing FRANKFURT/ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss regulators have requested electronic messaging data from the mobile phones of several Credit Suisse managers and supe...
May 19, 2020
Coronavirus creates repair headache for oil and gas industry
By Olga Yagova, Libby George and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin MOSCOW/LAGOS/LONDON (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted maintenance at oil and gas projects and refineries from Russia's Far East ...
May 19, 2020
