Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Boeing extends Washington state production shutdown
(Reuters) - Boeing Co said Sunday it would extend its temporary suspension of production operations at its Washington state production facilities until further notice. The largest U.S. planemaker anno...
Apr 05, 2020
Tiger at New York’s Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus
(Reuters) - A tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in the first known case of COVID-19 in an animal in the United St...
Apr 05, 2020
UK PM Johnson admitted to hospital with persistent coronavirus symptoms
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital for tests on Sunday after showing persistent symptoms of coronavirus ten days after testing positive for the virus, alt...
Apr 05, 2020
Louisiana church holds services, defying coronavirus stay-at-home order
By Carlos Barria CENTRAL, La. (Reuters) - The pastor of the Life Tabernacle Church near Baton Rouge held services on Sunday in defiance of a stay-at-home order issued by Louisiana because of the coron...
Apr 05, 2020
Oil prices under pressure from Saudi-Russia dispute, but tariffs provide support
By Ahmad Ghaddar and Julia Payne NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Global benchmark oil prices are expected to open lower on Monday as a dispute between top crude exporters Russia and Saudi Arabia raises co...
Apr 05, 2020
UK’s Queen Elizabeth invokes WW2 spirit: we can defeat the coronavirus
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth told the British people on Sunday that they would overcome the coronavirus outbreak if they stayed resolute in the face of lockdown and self-isolat...
Apr 05, 2020
New York governor sees ‘return to normalcy’ with rapid coronavirus testing
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday he believed there needed to be a mass rollout of rapid testing in order to achieve a "return to normalcy" after the peak of th...
Apr 05, 2020
Italy reports 525 new coronavirus deaths, slowest rise in over two weeks
MILAN (Reuters) - The death toll from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 525 to 15,887, the lowest daily death toll in more than two weeks, while the number of patients in intensive care fell for ...
Apr 05, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 304,826 coronavirus cases, 7,616 deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday reported 304,826 cases of coronavirus, an increase of 27,621 cases from its previous count, and said the number of death...
Apr 05, 2020
New York state reports 594 coronavirus deaths in past 24 hours
(Reuters) - New York state reported 594 deaths from the coronavirus and 8,327 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, increasing the numbers to 4,159 dead and 122,000 cases since the outbreak began,...
Apr 05, 2020
