Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. states press on with reopenings, markets boosted by virus vaccine potential
By Maria Caspani and Rajesh Kumar Singh (Reuters) - Nearly all 50 U.S. states were at some stage of reopening on Monday as authorities eased restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the new coron...
May 18, 2020
U.S. House panel leader links State Dept. inspector general firing to Saudi arms sale
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Monday the State Department inspector general may have been fired becaus...
May 18, 2020
FBI finds evidence of al Qaeda tie to 2019 Florida naval base shooting: NYT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has found cellphone evidence linking al Qaeda to the 2019 shooting at a U.S. naval base in Florida, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing officials briefed on th...
May 18, 2020
Trump administration ready for more coronavirus aid if needed: Hassett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is prepared to take further steps if needed to shore up the nation's economy during the novel coronavirus outbreak, but any final action will not look l...
May 18, 2020
‘I’m lucky’: Cancer surgery in midst of coronavirus pandemic
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - As Los Angeles begins to emerge from more than two months of coronavirus lockdown, 40-year-old Marisa Sullivan will have surgery this week to remove a malignant tumor from...
May 18, 2020
Moderna’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine shows promise in early-stage study
(Reuters) - Moderna Inc said on Monday its experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced antibodies that could "neutralize" the new coronavirus in patients in a small early stage clinical trial, sending its ...
May 18, 2020
Texas prepares for a pandemic first: a jury trial by Zoom
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - With jury trials on hold throughout the United States because of the coronavirus pandemic, court officials in Texas are preparing to try something new: let jurors hear a ca...
May 18, 2020
Exclusive: U.S. probes PerkinElmer’s role in massive Medicare fraud – sources
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medical diagnostic firm PerkinElmer Inc faces a federal investigation into its role in an alleged Medicare fraud involving tens of thousands of unnecessary gen...
May 18, 2020
Futures jump on promising data for COVID-19 vaccine
(Reuters) - U.S. stocks futures jumped on Monday after Moderna Inc said its experimental vaccine for COVID-19 showed promise in early trials and that it was looking to advance the vaccine into late-st...
May 18, 2020
Special Report: ‘Death Sentence’ – the hidden coronavirus toll in U.S. jails and prisons
By Peter Eisler, Linda So, Ned Parker and Brad Heath (Reuters) - When COVID-19 began tearing through Detroit's county jail system in March, authorities had no diagnostic tests to gauge its spread. But...
May 18, 2020
