Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
From filmmaker to medicine courier: volunteers helped Wuhan’s virus fight
By Brenda Goh WUHAN, China (Reuters) - While most people in the Chinese city of Wuhan were hunkered down in their homes at the height of the country's coronavirus outbreak, Lin Wenhua was out on the e...
Apr 06, 2020
Australian High Court quashes conviction of Cardinal Pell on sex offenses
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's highest court on Tuesday overturned former Vatican treasurer George Pell's conviction for sexually assaulting two teenaged choirboys in the 1990s, Australian media re...
Apr 06, 2020
Asian shares poised to climb after Wall Street rallies
By Chris Prentice (Reuters) - Asian markets looked poised on Tuesday to attempt another day of gains after stocks rallied on signs of a slowdown in coronavirus-related deaths, as oil prices resumed th...
Apr 06, 2020
Four workers at ADM Clinton, Iowa, corn facility test positive for coronavirus
By Karl Plume (Reuters) - Four workers at an Archer Daniels Midland Co corn processing facility in Clinton, Iowa, have tested positive for coronavirus, the company said on Monday. The employees and th...
Apr 06, 2020
California to send ventilators to national stockpile: governor
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California will send 500 ventilators to the federal government's national stockpile for distribution to states - such as New York - that are dealing ...
Apr 06, 2020
South Carolina becomes latest U.S. state to issue ‘stay at home’ orders
(Reuters) - The governor of South Carolina on Monday ordered all residents of the state to remain at home except for visits with family members or essential outings to get groceries, medicine or exerc...
Apr 06, 2020
U.S. to give prosecutors more leeway on bail in coronavirus crisis
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday gave federal prosecutors more leeway to keep people accused of non-violent crimes out of jail before their trials, saying the new c...
Apr 06, 2020
Tiger with COVID-19 gets meds, TLC from New York’s Bronx Zoo keepers
By Angela Moore NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nadia, the tiger who tested positive for the novel coronavirus in New York, and six other big cats who developed a dry cough at the Bronx Zoo appeared to be on the...
Apr 06, 2020
Special Report: Doctors embrace drug touted by Trump for COVID-19, without hard evidence it works
By Michael Erman and Deena Beasley NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The decades-old drug that President Donald Trump has persistently promoted as a potential weapon against COVID-19 has within a matte...
Apr 06, 2020
One in five U.S. children with coronavirus may need hospital care: CDC
By Gene Emery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Up to 20% of U.S. children infected by the novel coronavirus require hospitalization, with infants under age 1 most likely to be in that group, according to the gove...
Apr 06, 2020
