Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Buffett says coronavirus cannot stop America
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Warren Buffett said on Saturday gave an upbeat assessment of the United States' ability to withstand crises, even as he acknowledged that the coronavirus pandemic could...
May 02, 2020
Mexican families protest at hospital hit by coronavirus
By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Families in a poor satellite city of Mexico's capital with one of the country's highest tallies of the coronavirus have staged protests to demand news of ...
May 02, 2020
Biden backs U.S. women’s team after lawsuit setback
(Reuters) - Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Saturday voiced his support for the U.S. women's soccer team, a day after it suffered a setback in its gender discrimination lawsui...
May 02, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 1,092,815 coronavirus cases, 64,283 deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported there were 1,092,815 cases of the new coronavirus as of Friday, an increase of 30,369 from a day earlier, and said the nu...
May 02, 2020
New York’s Cuomo warns against ‘blindly’ reopening states
By Peter Szekely and Brad Brooks NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday pushed back against what he called premature demands that he reopen the state, saying he knew people we...
May 02, 2020
Italy’s daily coronavirus death toll jumps, new cases stable
ROME (Reuters) - Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy jumped by 474 on Saturday, against 269 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, posting the largest daily toll of fatalities since ...
May 02, 2020
U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl’s parents challenge freeing of his convicted killers
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Slain U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl's parents have petitioned to the Pakistani Supreme Court seeking to overturn a ruling that freed four men who had been convicte...
May 02, 2020
Taliban, U.S. engage in Twitter spat amid rise in Afghanistan violence
By Abdul Qadir Sediqi KABUL (Reuters) - Representatives of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Taliban insurgents engaged in a rare public spat on Saturday, venting on social media about the stalling Afgha...
May 02, 2020
FIFA vice-president ponders calendar year season in Europe
ROME (Reuters) - FIFA vice-president Victor Montagliani has said that moving the European soccer season to the calendar year is a "possibility to be discussed" in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic ...
May 02, 2020
Boris Johnson’s son named after doctors who ‘saved’ PM’s life
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Boris Johnson and his fiance Carrie Symonds have named their newborn son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas, partly as a tribute to two of the intensive care doctors who t...
May 02, 2020
