Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Reports: Westbrook to miss start of playoff series
Houston Rockets guard Russell Westbrook will miss the start of next week's playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder due to a strained right quadriceps muscle, the Houston Chronicle first repor...
Aug 13, 2020
Erdogan says Turkey will exact ‘high price’ for any attack on vessel
ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that any attack on a Turkish ship exploring for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters would incur a "high price" and suggested Turke...
Aug 13, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 5,176,018 coronavirus cases
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday reported 5,176,018 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 56,307 cases from its previous count, and said that th...
Aug 13, 2020
Pharmacy to pay $3.5 million to resolve U.S. claims it helped Teva pay kickbacks
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A Florida-based specialty pharmacy will pay $3.5 million to resolve allegations it served as a conduit for a Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd subsidiary to pay kic...
Aug 13, 2020
Merkel spoke to Erdogan, Greek PM on eastern Mediterranean
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke by telephone to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis about their dispute over energy exploration in th...
Aug 13, 2020
Cyber-enabled financing campaigns involving Islamist militant groups dismantled: Justice Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday announced the dismantling of cyber-enabled financing campaigns involving the military wing of Hamas, al Qaeda and Islamic State. "These a...
Aug 13, 2020
Nigeria says reversing U.S. visa ban will take ‘enormous resources’
By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Overturning a U.S. ban on Nigerians seeking immigrant visas will take "enormous resources", but the nation is making progress, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thurs...
Aug 13, 2020
Harris’ Indian heritage could boost Biden with Asian-American voters
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Joe Biden's presidential campaign plans to step up engagement with Asian-American voters this fall and is betting running mate Kamala Harris' experience as the daughter of an ...
Aug 13, 2020
U.S. barring private charter flights to Cuba
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Transportation said on Thursday it will suspend private charter flights to Cuba to increase U.S. economic pressure on the Cuban govern...
Aug 13, 2020
Nationals bullpen regains RHP Harris, loses LHP Freeman
The Washington Nationals reinstated right-handed reliever Will Harris from the 10-day injured list Thursday but replaced him with left-hander Sam Freeman due to a left flexor mass strain. Harris, 35, ...
Aug 13, 2020
