Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Canada floats idea of North American ban on new gasoline-powered cars
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada wants deeper environmental ties with the United States and one result could be a North American ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and ...
Dec 17, 2020
U.S. bans utilities supplying defense facilities from buying power grid items from China
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. energy secretary on Thursday signed an order prohibiting electric utilities that supply critical defense facilities from importing certain power syst...
Dec 17, 2020
NLRB investigation finds Amazon illegally discharged warehouse worker
(Reuters) - A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) investigation has found merit to a complaint that said Amazon.com Inc illegally discharged a protesting warehouse worker in New York City, according...
Dec 17, 2020
Down on Atlantic City boardwalk, they’re auctioning chance to blow up former Trump casino for charity
(Reuters) - Officials in Atlantic City, New Jersey, are auctioning the chance to push the detonation button when the building once known as the Trump Plaza casino is demolished next year, with the pro...
Dec 17, 2020
Northern Ireland to enter six-week lockdown on Dec. 26
Dublin (Reuters) - Northern Ireland will enter a six-week lockdown starting Dec 26, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neil announced on Thursday following a surge in COVID-19 infections in the British ...
Dec 17, 2020
Flutter group hit with $870 million Stars Group ruling by Kentucky court
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Paddy Power Betfair parent Flutter Entertainment has been hit with an $870 million judgement by the Kentucky Supreme Court, which on Thursday reinstated a ruling against The Stars G...
Dec 17, 2020
Biden’s Secretary of State nominee makes first visit to State Department
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, visited the State Department for the first time on Thursday, taking part in his firs...
Dec 17, 2020
Factbox: Moderna’s mRNA coronavirus vaccine
(Reuters) - Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine appeared set to receive regulatory authorization by the end of the week, after U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff endorsed it as safe and effective in d...
Dec 17, 2020
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase files with regulators to go public
(Reuters) -Coinbase Inc said on Thursday it had confidentially applied with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public in a move that would make it the first major U.S. cryptocurrency ex...
Dec 17, 2020
Second COVID-19 wave hits West & Central Africa as weather cools
By Paul Lorgerie and Edward McAllister BAMAKO/DAKAR (Reuters) - A second wave of coronavirus infections is hitting West and Central Africa, and experts are warning it could be worse than the first as ...
Dec 17, 2020
