Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill dies at 84: WSJ
(Reuters) - Paul O'Neill, former Treasury secretary of the United States and former chief executive of Alcoa Corp, died at age 84 on Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported. O'Neill had been under ...
Apr 18, 2020
Protective gear, cellphone, video chats: How America’s clergy minister to COVID-19 patients
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - Reverend Manuel Dorantes closed his eyes, took a breath to calm his fear and prayed when word came that Cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich had put out a call for volunteers. Cupich...
Apr 18, 2020
Exclusive: Amazon deploys thermal cameras at warehouses to scan for fevers faster
By Jeffrey Dastin and Krystal Hu (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has started to use thermal cameras at its warehouses to speed up screening for feverish workers who could be infected with the coronavirus, ...
Apr 18, 2020
North Korean lecturers say there are confirmed coronavirus cases in the country: RFA
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean authorities told citizens in public lectures that there were confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the country as early as the end of March, in contrast to official Pyon...
Apr 18, 2020
Latest on the spread of the coronavirus around the world
(Reuters) - Reported cases of the coronavirus have crossed 2.23 million globally and 151,657 people have died, according to a Reuters tally as of 0200 GMT on Saturday. DEATHS AND INFECTIONS * For an i...
Apr 18, 2020
Beer may lose its fizz as CO2 supplies go flat during pandemic
By Stephanie Kelly and Lisa Baertlein NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dwindling supplies of carbon dioxide from ethanol plants is sparking concern about shortages of beer, soda and seltzer water - es...
Apr 18, 2020
Queen Elizabeth cancels gun salutes for her birthday: ITV reporter
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth has asked that there be no gun salutes to mark her birthday on Tuesday, ITV reporter Chris Ship said on Twitter, adding that it would be the first such req...
Apr 18, 2020
U.S. judge blocks Twitter’s bid to reveal government surveillance requests
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the U.S. government after a federal judge accepted government arguments that this was likely...
Apr 18, 2020
Adherence to social distancing spurs dip in projected U.S. coronavirus deaths
By Peter Szekely NEW YORK (Reuters) - Better-than-expected social distancing practices have led an influential research model to lower its projected U.S. coronavirus death toll by 12%, while predictin...
Apr 18, 2020
As coronavirus infections mount, Japan at last expands testing
By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan, alarmed by rising coronavirus deaths and the specter of the collapse of the medical system, is scrambling to expand testing with driv...
Apr 17, 2020
