Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. companies discover the dark side of a COVID-19 business boom
By Timothy Aeppel (Reuters) - Kevin Kelly has discovered the many ways a deadly pandemic can be both a boom and a burden on some U.S. businesses. As the nation clamped down with stay-at-home orders, K...
May 15, 2020
Exclusive: Review contradicts Boris Johnson on claims he ordered early lockdown at UK care homes
By Andrew MacAskill and Stephen Grey LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Britain's parliament on Wednesday that his government moved swiftly to protect the country's vulnerable care h...
May 15, 2020
Exclusive: Nissan sees bigger role for U.S., China markets in global car sales – sources
By Naomi Tajitsu and Maki Shiraki TOKYO (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co expects equal contributions to global car sales from China, the United States and elsewhere in coming years as the struggling Japane...
May 15, 2020
Futures fall on U.S. plan to cut Huawei off from global chip suppliers
(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures turned lower on Friday as the Trump administration moved to block shipments of semiconductors to China's Huawei Technologies from global chipmakers, an action that...
May 15, 2020
Hawaii plans to extend stay-at-home measures, travel quarantine until end of June
(Reuters) - Hawaii is likely to keep its coronavirus stay-at-home measures in place until the end of June and will also discourage tourists from visiting, state Governor David Ige said. The current 14...
May 15, 2020
Exclusive: U.S. moves to cut Huawei off from global chip suppliers
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday moved to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies from global chipmakers, in an action that could ramp up ...
May 15, 2020
Special Report: Caught in Trump-China feud, WHO leader under siege
By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay (Reuters) - When the head of the World Health Organization returned from a whirlwind trip to Beijing in late January, he wanted to praise China's leadership p...
May 15, 2020
U.S. food aid program launches with companies scrambling to deliver
By Christopher Walljasper CHICAGO (Reuters) - Texas-based CRE8AD8 LLC bid for a federal government contract to quickly rescue food from struggling farmers and deliver it to U.S. food banks as fallout ...
May 15, 2020
U.S. House aims to pass $3 trillion Democratic coronavirus bill rejected by Republicans
By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is set on Friday to debate and vote on a $3 trillion Democratic bill aimed at salving the heavy human and e...
May 15, 2020
In Pennsylvania, signs that Trump’s attacks on mail voting could backfire
By Jarrett Renshaw LOWER MAKEFIELD, Penn. (Reuters) - With Pennsylvania's June 2 presidential primary fast approaching, local Republican leader Mark Hrutkay took to Facebook to remind supporters they ...
May 15, 2020
