Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Buffett likely to finally address pandemic at Berkshire Hathaway meeting
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc's annual meeting will be nothing like the extravaganzas of years past, but will give Warren Buffett a chance to show how resilient his cash-rich ...
Apr 30, 2020
Only 20 U.S. defense contractors consider $17 billion COVID-19 loan pool
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fewer than 20 companies are considering applying for $17 billion worth of loans earmarked as relief funds for Pentagon suppliers hit by the coronavirus pandemic, a...
Apr 30, 2020
New York to hire thousands of contact tracers, reduce subway service to clean trains
(Reuters) - New York state will hire thousands of people to trace the contacts of people who test positive for the coronavirus and halt early-hour New York City subway service to disinfect the trains ...
Apr 30, 2020
Police arrest suspect in shooting outside Cuba’s U.S. embassy, no injuries
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police arrested a suspect early on Thursday morning after reports of gunfire at Cuba's embassy in the United States, the Secret Service and Washington's Metropolitan Police Depa...
Apr 30, 2020
Trump says his former national security adviser Flynn was tormented by dirty cops
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was tormented by "dirty cops" as part of the probe into whether R...
Apr 30, 2020
Alone but together under lockdown, New York Girl Scouts embark on bird count project
By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - When the COVID-19 crisis hit, a Girl Scout troop in central New York thought it might have to scrap its group bird-counting trip altogether. Instead its leader...
Apr 30, 2020
U.S. states, local governments could need nearly $1 trillion for pandemic: Pelosi
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. state and local governments could need close to $1 trillion in aid over several years to cope with the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sai...
Apr 30, 2020
Coronavirus death of pregnant woman in federal prison prompts outrage in Congress
By Mark Hosenball and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats condemned the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for its treatment of a 30-year-old incarcerated pregnant woman who die...
Apr 30, 2020
U.S. states grapple with reopening as virus forces millions more jobless claims
By Doina Chiacu and Maria Caspani WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than two dozen U.S. states moved ahead with plans to relax restrictions on business and social life, hoping to reverse the econom...
Apr 30, 2020
Coronavirus was ‘not manmade or genetically modified’: U.S. spy agency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. spy agency said for the first time on Thursday that the American intelligence community believes the COVID-19 virus that originated in China was not manmade or gene...
Apr 30, 2020
