Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
‘We all stay home’: no work and no stimulus checks for undocumented family in U.S.
By Norma Galeana LE GRAND, Calif. (Reuters) - In Fresno, California, 58-year-old grandmother Maria Luisa Salazar shares a mobile home with her family of 11. Afraid that going to work would put them at...
Apr 16, 2020
Boeing restarting commercial airplane production next week
(Reuters) - Boeing Co said it will resume commercial airplane production next week in Washington State after suspending operations last month in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 27,000...
Apr 16, 2020
Trump suggests U.S. states re-open economies in three phases in new guidelines
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Parts of President Donald Trump's guidelines for re-opening the U.S. economy amid the coronavirus pandemic trickled out on Thursday afternoon, revealing a three-phase plan that ...
Apr 16, 2020
FDA cautions slower drug review activity due to reallocation of staff to COVID-19
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food & Drug Administration cautioned on Thursday that with a lot of its staff allocated to the coronavirus crisis, it may not be able to sustain its current level of timely review...
Apr 16, 2020
Protests erupt after deaths at U.S. factories in Mexican border town
By Jose Luis Gonzalez CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Protests have erupted outside factories in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez in recent days after the deaths of several workers, includin...
Apr 16, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 632,548 coronavirus cases, 27,012 deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday reported 632,548 cases of coronavirus, an increase of 27,158 cases from its previous count, and said the number of dea...
Apr 16, 2020
As economic pain deepens, protesters pushing back on U.S. stay-at-home orders
By Michael Martina and Joseph Ax DETROIT (Reuters) - As sweeping stay-at-home orders in 42 U.S. states to combat the coronavirus have shuttered businesses, disrupted lives and decimated the economy, p...
Apr 16, 2020
Coronavirus set to usher in big changes at U.S. offices
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) - The novel coronavirus may do to U.S. office rentals what e-commerce did to malls, or so goes a line of thinking running through commercial real estate circles. If ...
Apr 16, 2020
Senator Warren takes Treasury, Fed to task over ‘little oversight’ of stimulus programs
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren chastised the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department on Thursday over their rollout of massive stimulus programs designed to hel...
Apr 16, 2020
‘Waiting game’ for Oregon patient needing cancer surgery amid coronavirus
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Oregon resident George Polas learned in March he had an aggressive type of prostate cancer that would require surgical removal - just as the coronavirus pandemic began sprea...
Apr 16, 2020
