Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
White House considering U.S. Treasury coronavirus bond: Kudlow
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House advisers have been discussing the possibility of a coronavirus-related U.S. Treasury bond, President Donald Trump's economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday. Kud...
Apr 06, 2020
Torn between duty and fear – an Italian doctor fights coronavirus
By Fabiano Franchitti ROME (Reuters) - Cecilia Bartalena, a doctor treating coronavirus victims, lives in terror - torn between the oath she has taken to heal the sick and the fear that she might infe...
Apr 06, 2020
Acting U.S. Navy chief says fired ship captain may have been ‘stupid’: officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, in a surprise speech aboard a coronavirus-stricken U.S. aircraft carrier, told the crew that their fired captain may have been "stupid,"...
Apr 06, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear religious clash on Washington transit ads
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a religious rights dispute brought by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington against the Washington ar...
Apr 06, 2020
Florida, Nevada may be hit hardest by coronavirus economic shock: study
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Florida beaches remained packed with partying college students as the coronavirus crisis gathered force, and the Republican governor was slow to impose socia...
Apr 06, 2020
U.S. officials brace for ‘peak death week’ in coronavirus
By Doina Chiacu and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials on Monday girded the country for a "peak death week" from the coronavirus pandemic as the accelerating American death toll closed...
Apr 06, 2020
As infections balloon, coronavirus squeezes Europe’s armed forces
By Tangi Salan, Sabine Siebold and Luke Baker PARIS/BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) - Military forces across Europe have scaled back operations and imposed stricter rules on personnel to try to stem the sprea...
Apr 06, 2020
CVS to launch two new drive-through COVID-19 testing sites
By Michael Erman (Reuters) - CVS Health Corp said that it will launch two new drive-through COVID-19 testing sites in Georgia and Rhode Island on Monday using new, faster tests than had previously bee...
Apr 06, 2020
Canada, U.S. farms face crop losses due to foreign worker delays
By Rod Nickel and Christopher Walljasper WINNIPEG, Manitoba/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Mandatory coronavirus quarantines of seasonal foreign workers in Canada could hurt that country's fruit and vegetable ou...
Apr 06, 2020
Testing times for India in race to head off coronavirus epidemic
By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India, like a lot of countries plunged into crisis by the pandemic, is struggling to ramp up testing for the coronavirus, but in few places would the odds of c...
Apr 06, 2020
