Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Britain, EU dig in their heels in trade talks
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Talks between Britain and the European Union on their new trade relationship made little progress this week, sources with the bloc said on Friday, with persistent differences on k...
May 15, 2020
What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
(Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Baltic neighbours open borders The Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia opened their borders to each other at the st...
May 15, 2020
Pandemic stirs Wall Street’s social conscience
By Swati Pandey, Simon Jessop and Ross Kerber SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters) - Worker welfare is having a moment on Wall Street. The need to restart production lines and reopen offices idled by the coronavir...
May 15, 2020
Coronavirus likely hammered U.S. retail sales again in April
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales likely endured a second straight month of record declines in April as the novel coronavirus pandemic kept Americans at home, putting the econ...
May 14, 2020
U.S. denies full protection for Pacific fisher, relative of the weasel
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday denied Endangered Species Act protection to a weasel-like woodland mammal called the Pacific fisher across most of its West...
May 14, 2020
Global coronavirus death toll exceeds 300,000: Reuters tally
(Reuters) - Global deaths linked to the novel coronavirus passed 300,000 on Thursday, while confirmed cases of the virus are approaching 4.5 million, according to a Reuters tally. (Reporting by Lisa S...
May 14, 2020
USDA limits review requirements of some biotech farm products
By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday a rule that will simplify or waive agency reviews of certain biotech farm products, including plants an...
May 14, 2020
China reports four new coronavirus cases, up from three a day earlier
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported 4 new coronavirus cases for May 14, up from 3 cases a day earlier, the country's health commission said. All of the new cases were locally transmitted, the National...
May 14, 2020
‘Wild, wild West’: Wisconsin reopens for business
By Brendan O'Brien PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (Reuters) - As a handful of patrons sat at the bar nursing beers and watching a rerun of a Milwaukee Bucks basketball game on a cloudy Thursday afternoon, Juni...
May 14, 2020
Asian stocks set to rise on optimism of post-lockdown recovery, stimulus
By Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian stocks were set to rise on Friday amid investor optimism about the re-opening of the U.S. economy from coronavirus lockdowns and possibly more stimulus tha...
May 14, 2020
