Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. needs better technology to test for COVID-19: top health official
By Carl O'Donnell (Reuters) - Senior U.S. health official Francis Collins told a Senate hearing on Thursday that the country needs better diagnostic testing technology to cope with the COVID-19 pandem...
May 07, 2020
Trump doing well after president’s valet tests positive for virus: Conway
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is doing well and is very healthy, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway told Fox News on Thursday, after a U.S. military official who worked at the W...
May 07, 2020
Black man shot dead by police in Indianapolis; video prompts calls for probe
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Indianapolis police shot and killed a black man after a car pursuit and foot chase in an incident that was apparently captured on Facebook Live, leading to calls on Thur...
May 07, 2020
Venezuela opposition negotiated Maduro overthrow plan with security firm, report says
CARACAS (Reuters) - Members of Venezuela's opposition in October negotiated a $213 million deal with a small Florida security company to invade the country and overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, acco...
May 07, 2020
U.S. top court tosses ruling against illegal immigration encouragement law
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lower court ruling that had invalidated a decades-old federal law defended by President Donald Trump's administration that ma...
May 07, 2020
New York governor extends eviction ban to protect those most vulnerable
By Nathan Layne and Maria Caspani (Reuters) - New York will extend a moratorium on evictions for non-payment of rent for another two months until August 20 to alleviate anxiety over the economic impac...
May 07, 2020
Massachusetts must allow gun stores to reopen despite pandemic, judge rules
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday ordered Massachusetts authorities to allow gun shops to reopen after the governor deemed them non-essential businesses that needed to clo...
May 07, 2020
White House shelved CDC guidance on easing of virus restrictions
By Alexandra Alper and Maria Caspani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House shelved a step-by-step guide prepared by U.S. health officials to help states safely reopen mass transit, restaurants, dayca...
May 07, 2020
U.S. employers must try to accommodate workers vulnerable to coronavirus: agency
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - The U.S. agency that enforces laws prohibiting disability discrimination said on Thursday that employers must try to accommodate workers with medical conditions that mak...
May 07, 2020
U.S. House Speaker Pelosi outlines next coronavirus aid bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday laid out the broad outlines of the next massive coronavirus-response bill Democrats will seek, with possible votes...
May 07, 2020
