Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Fed’s Powell to update on economy and coronavirus crisis response
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell - one of the key architects of the unprecedented effort underway to shield the U.S. economy from the coronavirus outbreak...
Apr 09, 2020
U.S. weekly jobless claims seen hovering near record highs
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits in the last three weeks likely totaled a staggering 15 million as tough measures to control the novel cor...
Apr 09, 2020
Exclusive: U.S. ambassador to South Korea is discussing plans to resign – sources
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris has said privately that he does not plan to stay on beyond the November U.S. presidential election, regardless of whether ...
Apr 08, 2020
Body of Robert F. Kennedy’s great-grandson recovered from Chesapeake Bay
(Reuters) - The body of a great-grandson to Robert F. Kennedy was recovered from Chesapeake Bay off the Maryland coast on Wednesday, two days after he went missing with his mother while riding in a ca...
Apr 08, 2020
BOJ’s Kuroda warns corporate funding strains worsening
TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Thursday warned that uncertainty over the country's economic outlook was "extremely high," with corporate funding strains worsening. "The sp...
Apr 08, 2020
Nursing home deaths rise in Maryland with tests, protective gear scarce
By Makini Brice and Jane Ross WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retired firefighter Gary Holmberg was only supposed to be at the Pleasant View nursing home in Maryland for a little while, recovering from a fall ...
Apr 08, 2020
Ex-U.S. Navy secretary’s Guam trip to ridicule commander cost taxpayers $243,000: officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly's controversial trip to Guam over the weekend where he ridiculed the commander of a coronavirus-stricken U.S. aircraft carrier cos...
Apr 08, 2020
Clinton sex scandal whistleblower Linda Tripp dies at age 70: reports
(Reuters) - Linda Tripp, the former U.S. civil servant whose secretly taped telephone conversations with a former White House intern documented the sex scandal that led to then-President Bill Clinton'...
Apr 08, 2020
Chaotic Wisconsin election signals virus-related voting battles ahead
By Simon Lewis and Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shavonda Sisson said she requested a mail ballot to vote in Tuesday's Democratic primary election in Wisconsin well ahead of the election. When it...
Apr 08, 2020
Russia, Saudi to debate oil output cuts as U.S. resists joining
By Rania El Gamal, Olesya Astakhova and Ahmad Ghaddar DUBAI/MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC and Russia meet on Thursday to try to agree to record oil output cuts but their efforts to address the slump ...
Apr 08, 2020
