Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Here’s why you can’t find frozen fries, while U.S. farmers are sitting on tons of potatoes
By Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) - Shopper Lexie Mayewski is having a hard time finding frozen french fries in Washington, D.C.-area supermarkets in the wake of coronavirus-fueled stockpiling. On the other...
Apr 24, 2020
U.S. food banks run short on staples as hunger soars
By Michelle Conlin, Lisa Baertlein and Christopher Walljasper (Reuters) - It's pitch black in El Paso, Texas, when the minivans and pickups start lining up at 4 a.m., snaking for more than a mile down...
Apr 24, 2020
US judge blocks California law that required background checks to buy ammunition
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge has blocked a California law that required background checks for people buying ammunition, saying it violated the constitutional right to bear arms. ...
Apr 24, 2020
French court to rule on Amazon union spat as vendors struggle
By Sarah White and Gwnalle Barzic PARIS (Reuters) - A French court will on Friday decide whether to back Amazon's appeal against an order to restrict the goods it can deliver, which led it to close it...
Apr 24, 2020
Vigilant against coronavirus, Asia’s Muslims keep faith and distance as Ramadan begins
By Kate Lamb JAKARTA (Reuters) - Governments of Asian nations with large Muslim populations urged people to keep their distance while observing their faith as Islam's fasting month of Ramadan began on...
Apr 24, 2020
COVID-19 takes unequal toll on immigrants in Nordic region
By Lena Masri (Reuters) - The first person in Sadad Dakhare's two-bedroom apartment in Oslo, Norway, to show symptoms was his 4-year-old niece. Next, his mother, his sister and he himself fell ill. Th...
Apr 24, 2020
Mystery of India’s lower death rates seems to defy coronavirus trend
By Alexandra Ulmer and Sumit Khanna MUMBAI/AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Parts of India have recorded dramatic falls in mortality rates after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to fight the new coronavi...
Apr 24, 2020
What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
(Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Producing treatments faster and distributing them fairly The World Health Organization (WHO) said it would announce a "landmar...
Apr 24, 2020
How Africa risks reeling from a health crisis to a food crisis
By Libby George LAGOS (Reuters) - In Nigeria's Benue state, the food basket of the country, Mercy Yialase sits in front of her idle rice mill. Demand is high across the nation, but she already has mou...
Apr 24, 2020
Main Street’s mainstays: How some U.S. states tapped crisis loans
By Howard Schneider and Timothy Aeppel (Reuters) - As the coronavirus crisis gripped the U.S. economy and Congress approved hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency small business loans, Utah buil...
Apr 24, 2020
