Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Burping bags and dancing raisins: Tricks for teaching science during a pandemic
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Texas science teacher Avri DiPietro has a secret weapon in her tool kit to help keep her students engaged now that the coronavirus pandemic has forced them to stay home ...
Apr 23, 2020
Special Report: As virus advances, doctors rethink rush to ventilate
By Silvia Aloisi, Deena Beasley, Gabriella Borter, Thomas Escritt and Kate Kelland BERLIN (Reuters) - When he was diagnosed with COVID-19, Andre Bergmann knew exactly where he wanted to be treated: th...
Apr 23, 2020
Coronavirus school shutdowns threaten to deepen U.S. ‘digital divide’
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Liz Peasley, a special education aide in the rural Grand Coulee Dam School District in Washington State, drives 10 miles from her home on the Colville Indian Reservation just ...
Apr 23, 2020
Blood-pressure drugs are in the crosshairs of COVID-19 research
By Deborah J. Nelson (Reuters) - Scientists are baffled by how the coronavirus attacks the body - killing many patients while barely affecting others. But some are tantalized by a clue: A disproportio...
Apr 23, 2020
With reopenings in U.S. South, some merchants lay out welcome mat, others fearful
By Ann Saphir and Lindsay Dunsmuir (Reuters) - Angie Bullman plans to reopen her suburban Atlanta hair salon on Friday after closing a month ago to comply with state orders. She and her co-owner husba...
Apr 23, 2020
U.S. House to pass nearly $500 million more in coronavirus relief
By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of members of the U.S. House of Representatives will gather in Washington on Thursday to pass a $484 billion coronavirus relief b...
Apr 23, 2020
U.S. judge dismisses actor Jussie Smollett’s lawsuit alleging malicious prosecution
(Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett who accused the city of Chicago of malicious prosecution in concluding that his claim to having be...
Apr 23, 2020
South Asia coronavirus cases top 37,000, headache for govts eyeing lockdown end
By Sanjeev Miglani and Asif Shahzad NEW DELHI (Reuters) - South Asia's coronavirus infections have crossed 37,000, with more than half in India, official data showed on Thursday, complicating the task...
Apr 23, 2020
Exclusive: China plans to boost state reserves with U.S. crops amid coronavirus – sources
By Hallie Gu, Jing Xu and Keith Zhai BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China is preparing to buy more than 30 million tonnes of crops for state stockpiles to help protect itself from supply chain disrupti...
Apr 23, 2020
Severe storms sweep through U.S. states of Oklahoma, Texas; at least five killed: CNN
(Reuters) - At least five people were killed and more than a dozen were left injured as severe storms ripped through the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Texas on Wednesday, CNN reported https://cnn.it/355...
Apr 23, 2020
