Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Bolsonaro snaps photos with kids at Brazil protest defying health advice
By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA (Reuters) - Wearing a face mask, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro posed for photographs with kids plucked out of a crowd of supporters on Sunday, disregarding public health...
May 17, 2020
Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria: Iran Supreme Leader
(Reuters) - Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday, according to his official website. Iran almost got into a full-blown conflict w...
May 17, 2020
Beaches, parks busy as Europe heat wave and U.S. spring test new coronavirus rules
By Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - Summer weather is enticing much of the world to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns as centers of the outbreak from New York to Italy and Spain gradually lift restrictions t...
May 17, 2020
Italy to reopen shops, restaurants as lockdown eases further
By Silvia Aloisi and Giulio Piovaccari MILAN (Reuters) - Shops, restaurants and hair salons prepared to reopen in Italy on Monday as the government further eased one of the world's strictest coronavir...
May 17, 2020
Fed’s Powell says full economic recovery may require coronavirus vaccine: CBS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said a U.S. economic recovery may stretch deep into next year and a full comeback may depend on a coronavirus vaccine. "This economy will ...
May 17, 2020
Pelosi sees negotiations on new $3 trillion coronavirus legislation: CBS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday there will be negotiations on the new $3 trillion coronavirus relief legislation passed by the Democratic-controlled House of Repr...
May 17, 2020
Top Trump adviser downplays State Department watchdog’s firing
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's adviser Peter Navarro on Sunday downplayed the firing of the State Department's top internal watchdog, saying the "deep state" ha...
May 17, 2020
No spike in coronavirus in places reopening, U.S. health secretary says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities are not seeing spikes in coronavirus cases in places that are reopening but are seeking increases in some areas that remain closed, U.S. health secretary Alex Azar s...
May 17, 2020
In Mexico, one of world’s biggest food markets stirs unease about infections
By Noe Torres MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Every day, thousands of Mexicans crowd a massive food market that is a lynchpin of the capital's food supply, though it sits at the heart of a major hotspot for t...
May 17, 2020
Justin Amash withdraws from presidential race
(WASHINGTON DC) (WKZO AM/FM) - Weeks after he announced he wanted to give voters a choice in the presidential race, Michigan congressman Justin Amash has stated he will not be a candidate in this &nbs...
May 17, 2020
