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Twitter account of India PM Modi’s personal website apparently hacked
BENGALURU (Reuters) - A Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website appeared to be hacked early on Thursday with a series of tweets requesting its followers to donate to ...
Sep 02, 2020
Asian shares set to rise on broader U.S. rally, dollar gains
By Alwyn Scott NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian equities were set to open higher on Thursday after stronger U.S. economic data and the prospect of additional U.S. stimulus prompted sharp, and broader, gains...
Sep 02, 2020
New Yorkers pant with relief through masks as gyms reopen
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A special strain of New Yorker showed up at Chelsea Piers Fitness on Wednesday morning, the first time gyms have been allowed to open since the coronavirus pande...
Sep 02, 2020
Los Angeles county allows schools to reopen for students with special needs
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - Los Angeles County will allow schools to reopen to serve small groups of students with special needs and those for whom English is a second language, the latest move to...
Sep 02, 2020
U.S. CDC tells states to prep for COVID-19 vaccine distribution by November
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has asked state public health officials to prepare to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine to high-risk groups as soon as la...
Sep 02, 2020
U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans' telephone records, an appeals court ha...
Sep 02, 2020
U.S. attorney general says mail-in voting open to ‘fraud and coercion’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday that mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 election could be vulnerable to fraud, echoing an argument President Donald Trump has ma...
Sep 02, 2020
Amid plans to quit, U.S. will not pay what it owes WHO this year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday that it will not pay some $80 million it currently owes to the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) and will instead redirect the mon...
Sep 02, 2020
Barr says there is ‘false narrative’ that many Black people are shot by white police officers
(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday said there is a "false narrative" in the U.S. that many unarmed Black people are shot by white police officers. "I think the narrative that ...
Sep 02, 2020
Exclusive: Vaccine group says 76 rich countries now committed to ‘COVAX’ access plan
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Seventy-six wealthy nations are now committed to joining a global COVID-19 vaccine allocation plan co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) that aims to help bu...
Sep 02, 2020
