Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
With Castro-era biotech, Cuba seeks to compete in coronavirus treatment race
By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist-run Cuba, laboring under a six-decade U.S. embargo, is betting a biotech sector begun by late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro can give the Caribbean islan...
May 13, 2020
Futures rise ahead of Fed Chair Powell’s address
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Wednesday, a day after Wall Street's main indexes fell, as investors kept an eye out for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's ad...
May 13, 2020
Tesla’s California fight heats up competition for jobs
By Ben Klayman DETROIT (Reuters) - Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk's fight with local authorities over the reopening of its California plant has gotten the attention of those who scout sites for n...
May 13, 2020
Fed’s Powell to assess next phase of pandemic economy
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, having overseen the rapid creation of the central bank's massive network of pandemic-era programs, turns his attention W...
May 13, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court to hear presidential Electoral College dispute
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider a dispute involving whether "electors" in the complex Electoral College system that decides...
May 13, 2020
Locked down shoppers turn to vegetables, shun ready meals
By Francesco Guarascio and Clement Rossignol BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Shoppers cut spending on ready-made meals and bought more fruit and vegetables, turning to healthier eating during coronavirus lockdow...
May 13, 2020
England tiptoes out of full lockdown as economy plunges
By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - England tentatively began easing its coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday, with some people who cannot do their jobs at home urged to return to work, as stark economi...
May 13, 2020
Exclusive: As COVID-19 cases in Yemen surge, some sources see undercounting
By Aziz El Yaakoubi DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen has more suspected coronavirus cases and deaths than the authorities have so far reported, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as the United...
May 13, 2020
For Hire: Central Europe’s business services firms spy a chance in crisis
By Michael Kahn, Anna Koper and Alan Charlish PRAGUE/WARSAW (Reuters) - As the COVID-19 pandemic wipes out jobs and empties offices across the world, companies in Central Europe that provide remote, l...
May 13, 2020
Slowly but steady, China strives to make widespread virus testing the new normal
By Brenda Goh and Min Zhang SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing resident Wang Yukun was happy to comply in April when the construction firm he works for told him he'd need to take a test for the nove...
May 13, 2020
