Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Illinois governor to extend stay-at-home order: local media
By Brendan O'Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker was expected on Thursday to extend his state's stay-at-home order, which was to expire on April 30, to stem the spread of COVID-1...
Apr 23, 2020
More than 5,000 U.S. meat, food-processing workers exposed to coronavirus: union
CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than 5,000 U.S. meat and food-processing workers have been infected with or exposed to the new coronavirus, and 13 have died, the United Food and Commercial Workers Internatio...
Apr 23, 2020
Inside Trump’s proposal to suspend some legal immigration amid coronavirus crisis
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday that temporarily blocks some foreigners outside the United States from obtaining U.S. permanent resid...
Apr 23, 2020
Quarantine with Rube Goldberg: California family builds ultimate domino effect machine
(Reuters) - Isolation at home inspired one California family to build an elaborate two-story Rube Goldberg machine, and it probably didn't hurt that mom is a high school science teacher. The contrapti...
Apr 23, 2020
U.S. coronavirus deaths top 48,000, averaging 2,000 lives lost a day: Reuters tally
By Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - U.S. coronavirus deaths topped 48,000 on Thursday as the number of lives lost in April rises by an average of 2,000 a day, according to a Reuters tally. At current rates, ...
Apr 23, 2020
Texas to allow abortions amid pandemic after court fight
By Nate Raymond and Andrew Chung (Reuters) - Texas will allow abortions to resume following a legal battle over whether the Republican-governed state could enact a near-total ban on the procedure to p...
Apr 23, 2020
New York test of 3,000 people finds 14% with coronavirus antibodies
(Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday a screening of 3,000 residents found that 13.9 percent tested positive for antibodies for the novel coronavirus, suggesting that some 2.7 mi...
Apr 23, 2020
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s brother dies after contracting the coronavirus
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's oldest brother, Donald Reed Herring, died on Tuesday night after contracting the novel coronavirus, she confirmed o...
Apr 23, 2020
Some Americans going back to work, even as virus erases more jobs
By Ann Saphir and Susan Heavey (Reuters) - Some workers in Georgia and other U.S. states prepared to go back to work for the first time in a month, as data released on Thursday showing soaring unemplo...
Apr 23, 2020
Bezos, Musk among billionaires gaining net worth in pandemic: report
(Reuters) - The combined wealth of America's billionaires, including Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla Inc chief Elon Musk, increased nearly 10% during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, accordi...
Apr 23, 2020
