Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Georgia forges ahead with reopening despite disapproval of Trump, pandemic experts
By Rich McKay and Susan Heavey ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia pushed ahead with its plan to become the first U.S. state to allow an array of merchants to reopen on Friday following a month-long shutdown ...
Apr 24, 2020
Top Senate Democrat says momentum growing for state aid package
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate said on Friday that momentum is gathering behind efforts to provide federal assistance to state and local governments hit by the coronavirus ...
Apr 24, 2020
Trump’s coronavirus disinfectant comments ‘dangerous’, doctors say
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors and health experts urged people not to drink or inject disinfectant on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested scientists should investigate inser...
Apr 24, 2020
World leaders due to launch COVID-19 drugs, vaccine plan: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will help launch a global initiative on Friday to accelerate work on drugs, tests and vaccines against COVID-19 ...
Apr 24, 2020
On next COVID-19 front line, New York nurse tends to discharged patients at home
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Nurse Flora Ajayi parks her car on a residential block in Queens, New York and pops open the trunk, revealing plastic bins full of personal protective gear. She dons gl...
Apr 24, 2020
Futures rise at the end of stormy week
By C Nivedita (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures gained on Friday with bargain hunters returning at the end of a tumultuous week marked by a record collapse in oil prices and growing evidence of the...
Apr 24, 2020
Lysol maker says don’t inject disinfectant after Trump remarks
(Reuters) - Lysol and Dettol maker Reckitt Benckiser said on Friday its disinfectants should not be administered to humans, after U.S. President Donald Trump said researchers should try putting disinf...
Apr 24, 2020
U.S. coronavirus death toll expected to reach 50,000 on Friday
By Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - The U.S. death toll from the novel coronavirus is expected to reach 50,000 on Friday, doubling in 10 days and the highest in the world, according to a Reuters tally. About...
Apr 24, 2020
Truce over: U.S. Congress heads to partisan battle on coronavirus aid for states
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After passing $3 trillion of coronavirus relief in a rare seven-week run of bipartisanship, the U.S. Congress is headed back to its normal state of conflict, wi...
Apr 24, 2020
Buildings closed by coronavirus face another risk: Legionnaires’ disease
By John Shiffman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Commercial buildings shuttered for weeks to stem the spread of the coronavirus could fuel another grisly lung infection: Legionnaires' disease. Public health ex...
Apr 24, 2020
