Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Hispanics, African Americans hit hard in U.S. COVID-19 hotspot counties, says CDC
(Reuters) - U.S. coronavirus hotspots had disproportionately high numbers of cases among communities of color, according to an analysis on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC...
Aug 14, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 5,228,817 coronavirus cases
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday reported 5,228,817 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 52,799 cases from its previous count, and said that the ...
Aug 14, 2020
Trump Administration picks McKesson for coronavirus vaccine distribution
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Friday that McKesson Corp would be the central distributor for future coronavirus vaccines, sending the U.S. drug distributor...
Aug 14, 2020
Trump says he would agree to $25 billion for Postal Service if Democrats make concessions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would agree to up to $25 billion in funding for the U.S. Postal Service if Democratic lawmakers make concessions. "Sure, if they gi...
Aug 14, 2020
U.N. chief urges Yemen’s Houthis to grant access to decaying oil tanker
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Yemen's Houthi group to allow an assessment team to travel to a decaying oil tanker that is threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels ...
Aug 14, 2020
Rockets land near Baghdad airport after week of anti-U.S. attacks
GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) - Three rockets landed in the vicinity of Baghdad airport near a military base in the complex that houses U.S. forces, the Iraqi military said, after one of the busiest w...
Aug 14, 2020
State of collapse: Can Lebanon’s troubled leadership save the country?
By Samia Nakhoul and Ghaida Ghantous BEIRUT (Reuters) - Beirut's seismic explosion propelled the scarred Lebanese capital 30 years back in time with a violence scarcely imaginable even to a country th...
Aug 14, 2020
Can U.S. retail sector’s ‘V-shaped’ rebound jump the fiscal cliff?
By Howard Schneider (Reuters) - Even with nearly a fifth of the labor force collecting unemployment benefits in July, Americans continued spending with relative gusto, driving retail sales back to pre...
Aug 14, 2020
Argentina sticks with COVID-19 lockdown focused in and around Buenos Aires
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina extended until Aug. 30 restrictions taken against the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said on Friday, affirming that the country's lockdown would continue i...
Aug 14, 2020
School bus drivers lead protest to safely reopen Los Angeles schools
By Omar Younis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - School bus drivers from the second largest school district in the United States led a noisy protest caravan through downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, demanding f...
Aug 14, 2020
