Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. spends Easter Sunday on lockdown
(Reuters) - Americans spent Sunday on lockdown as the U.S. toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic surpassed 20,500 deaths and more than half a million confirmed cases over the Easter weekend. With a...
Apr 12, 2020
Canada coronavirus deaths rise by more than 12% to 674: public health agency
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The number of people killed by the coronavirus in Canada rose by more than 12% to 674 in a day, official data posted by the public health agency showed on Sunday. By 11:00 eastern t...
Apr 12, 2020
Assange fathered two children while holed up in embassy, lawyer says
LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fathered two children with a lawyer who was representing him while he was holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London fighting extradition, the law...
Apr 12, 2020
With 20,500 coronavirus deaths, U.S. spends Easter Sunday on lockdown
(Reuters) - Americans spent Sunday on lockdown as the U.S. toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic surpassed 20,500 deaths and more than half a million confirmed cases over the Easter weekend. With m...
Apr 12, 2020
U.S. officials hopeful about May 1 target date for reopening U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration views May 1 as a target date for relaxing stay-at-home restrictions across the United States, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn sai...
Apr 12, 2020
Seen everywhere in last U.S. crisis, moral hazard is nowhere in this one
By Ann Saphir and Lindsay Dunsmuir SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. Federal Reserve rolls out trillions of dollars to blunt the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, there's a ...
Apr 12, 2020
“Life will prevail” says Holy Land archbishop on Easter Sunday
By Stephen Farrell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - With Jerusalem under lockdown over coronavirus, Easter Sunday was marked at the traditional site of Jesus' death and resurrection by just a handful of Christia...
Apr 12, 2020
Banish ‘self-centredness’, pope tells the world as it faces coronavirus
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis called on Sunday for global solidarity in fighting the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout, urging the relaxation of international sa...
Apr 12, 2020
Online, in parking lots and on TV, U.S. Christians face uncommon Easter
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - Online, on television and even in their cars in church parking lots, American Christians will, due to the coronavirus pandemic, observe an Easter Sunday unlike any they have ...
Apr 12, 2020
Spain’s overnight coronavirus death toll rises, total at 16,972
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's overnight death toll from the coronavirus rose to 619 on Sunday from a nearly three-week low of 510 on Saturday, the Health Ministry said, breaking a three-day streak of dai...
Apr 12, 2020
