Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Jobless Americans to see extra payments as soon as this week
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans who have lost their jobs due to the new coronavirus will start getting enhanced jobless benefits as soon as this week as states deploy hundreds of bil...
Apr 07, 2020
United Airlines drastically cuts California flights to match demand
CHICAGO (Reuters) - United Airlines Holdings Inc said on Tuesday it was temporarily, but significantly, reducing daily flying in and out of Los Angeles and San Francisco airports to better match deman...
Apr 07, 2020
New U.S. coronavirus infections may level out sooner than predicted: Housing secretary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development said on Tuesday that hopeful signs of a slowdown in the spread of the novel coronavirus in the United States suggests new cas...
Apr 07, 2020
Special Report: How federal snafus slowed testing at a top U.S. hospital
By Peter Eisler and Chad Terhune CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (Reuters) - The lab directors at the University of Virginia Medical Center felt powerless. In early March, people began arriving with symptom...
Apr 07, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 374,329 coronavirus cases, 12,064 deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 374,329 cases of coronavirus, an increase of 43,438 cases from its previous count, and said that the number of...
Apr 07, 2020
Trump removes inspector general overseeing implementation of $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief: Politico
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has removed the inspector general who was named to oversee implementation of the $2.3 trillion coronavirus economic relief, Politico reported on Tuesday. ...
Apr 07, 2020
Trump: Health and Human Services watchdog produced ‘fake dossier’ on coronavirus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused a federal health department watchdog as having produced a "fake dossier" with a report that confirmed hospitals nationwide faced "...
Apr 07, 2020
New York state overtakes Italy, has coronavirus cases second only to Spain: Reuters tally
(Reuters) - New York state overtook Italy on Tuesday, reporting overall coronavirus cases second in the world only to Spain, according to a Reuters tally. The U.S. state has 138,836 reported cases com...
Apr 07, 2020
Online meal delivery firms knocked off course by coronavirus crisis
By Anna Rzhevkina, Hilary Russ and Toby Sterling GDYNIA/NEW YORK/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The lockdown of millions of people at home across the globe due to the coronavirus should have been the perfect r...
Apr 07, 2020
U.S. appeals court hands win to Trump plan to resume federal executions
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration's effort to resume federal executions got a boost on Tuesday from a U.S. appeals court, which tossed a district judge's injunction th...
Apr 07, 2020
