Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Working women, and especially single moms, are hit hard by coronavirus downturn
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - Before she was laid off from her bartending job in Charleston, South Carolina, Shana Swain used to spend her nights serving food and mixing Manhattans and Cosmopolitans. ...
May 08, 2020
Member of U.S. Vice President’s staff tests positive for coronavirus: NBC reporter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A member U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's staff has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, which caused Pence's Friday flight to Iowa to be delayed and some fellow passenger...
May 08, 2020
U.S. chief justice puts hold on disclosure of Russia investigation materials
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday put a temporary hold on the disclosure to a Democratic-led House of Representatives committee of grand jury material...
May 08, 2020
Still hiring! Walmart, other superstores buck U.S. employment trend
By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid the carnage of the U.S. employment report for April was one bright spot: superstores led by Walmart Inc , the world's largest retailer, added more than ...
May 08, 2020
After historic job losses from virus, Americans begin heading back to work
By Lucia Mutikani and Maria Caspani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic triggered the steepest monthly loss of American jobs since the Great Depression, the U.S. government said on Friday,...
May 08, 2020
Stop! French philosopher Latour urges no return to pre-lockdown normal
By Benoit Van Overstraeten PARIS (Reuters) - What if rather than hurrying back to a pre-lockdown "business as usual" to revive economies hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, countries built a new nor...
May 08, 2020
J.C. Penney to file for bankruptcy as soon as next week, sources say
By Mike Spector and Jessica DiNapoli (Reuters) - J.C. Penney Co Inc is preparing to file for bankruptcy protection as soon as next week with plans to permanently close about a quarter of its roughly 8...
May 08, 2020
Some White House staff to wear masks after valet tests positive: Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said certain White House staff members have started wearing face masks, one day after the White House said his personal valet had tested po...
May 08, 2020
Trump: ‘I know nothing’ about Venezuela incursion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday again said the U.S. government was not behind a bungled incursion into Venezuela this week, allegedly to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, say...
May 08, 2020
Coronavirus deals U.S. job losses of 20.5 million, historic unemployment rate in April
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy lost a staggering 20.5 million jobs in April, the steepest plunge in payrolls since the Great Depression and the starkest sign yet of how the ...
May 08, 2020
