Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Georgia father, son arrested on murder charges in shooting of unarmed black man
(Reuters) - A former white police officer and his son were arrested on Thursday in Georgia and charged with murder in the death of an unarmed black man in an incident that has touched off a furor in t...
May 07, 2020
Asia stocks poised to rise as upbeat earnings trump jobs gloom
By David Henry NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian stocks were set to track Wall Street gains on Friday, after upbeat corporate earnings took the focus off upcoming data that is expected show the worst U.S. un...
May 07, 2020
Neiman Marcus’s attempt to manage crushing debt undone by COVID-19
By Mike Spector and Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) - On March 17, about a week after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Neiman Marcus Group had no choice but to close its 67...
May 07, 2020
Japan household spending falls in March as pandemic pain deepens
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's household spending fell 6.0% in March from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, underscoring the deepening pain the coronavirus pandemic is infli...
May 07, 2020
Whistleblower offers window into HHS’s flawed COVID-19 response
By Aram Roston and Marisa Taylor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new whistleblower complaint has drawn attention for its allegations that the Trump administration retaliated against a scientist who sent earl...
May 07, 2020
CDC reports 1,219,066 coronavirus cases, 73,297 deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday reported 1,219,066 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 25,253 cases from its previous count, and said that th...
May 07, 2020
Malaria drug touted by Trump for coronavirus fails another test
By Gene Emery (Reuters) - The malaria treatment repeatedly championed by U.S. President Donald Trump as a "game changer" in the fight against the novel coronavirus has again failed to show a benefit i...
May 07, 2020
Trump campaign launches $10 million ad blitz against Biden
By Tim Reid (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's re-election campaign launched a massive, multi-million dollar ad blitz against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday, its b...
May 07, 2020
U.S. adds social distancing to Atlantic hurricane season emergency response plan
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - With the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season fast approaching, U.S. officials on Thursday said they were readying more buses, hotel rooms and shelter space for social distancing t...
May 07, 2020
LG Chem plant in India starts leaking toxic gas again, prompting evacuation
CHENNAI (Reuters) - Toxic gas began leaking again from a factory owned by LG Chem in southern India's Visakhapatnam early on Friday, an official said, triggering a wider evacuation after at least 11 p...
May 07, 2020
