Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Opening statements begin in trial of Minnesota police officer who killed Daunte Wright
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - A white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black motorist in April, triggering protests against police brutality, will go on trial on Wednesday as opening...
Dec 08, 2021
Amazon’s trucking ambitions bump up against driver shortage, competition
By Lisa Baertlein and Richa Naidu LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's push to recruit big-rig contractors to haul goods across its web of warehouses is colliding with a trucker shortage a...
Dec 08, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial enters eighth day, testimony of fourth victim expected soon
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial entered its eighth day on Wednesday, after jurors heard testimony from three women who said they were teenagers when the British so...
Dec 08, 2021
Analysis: Omicron is a wake-up call for COVID-19 vaccine developers
By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - Arrival of the highly-mutated Omicron variant is a wake-up call to develop vaccines less susceptible to the rapid changes of the coronavirus, leading virologists and i...
Dec 08, 2021
Olympics-Canada forecast to beat U.S. medals tally for second straight Winter Games
(Reuters) - Canada will finish above the United States in the medals table for a second successive Winter Olympics thanks in part to the recent performances of their short track speed skaters, accordi...
Dec 08, 2021
Exclusive-Aleph, Wacker team up to fast-track mass lab meat production
By Zuzanna Szymanska BERLIN (Reuters) - Israeli lab-grown meat startup Aleph Farms and German chemicals maker Wacker Chemie will work together to improve production processes for growth proteins to re...
Dec 08, 2021
Jury to hear final arguments in N.Y. opioid case against drugmakers
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - Jurors in a New York state court are expected to hear closing arguments Wednesday over whether drugmakers AbbVie Inc and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd fueled an opi...
Dec 08, 2021
Biden travels to Missouri to highlight U.S. infrastructure law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Kansas City, Missouri on Wednesday to draw attention to his $1 trillion program to invest in infrastructure. Biden will visit the Kansas ...
Dec 08, 2021
Maxwell’s defense seeks difficult balance in attacking accusers
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - As Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers cross-examine her accusers, they face the difficult task of casting doubt on their credibility without seeming too aggressive toward women...
Dec 08, 2021
Britain warns Iran it’s the ‘last chance’ to sign up to nuclear deal
LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Liz Truss urged Iran on Wednesday to sign up to the 2015 nuclear deal, saying it was "the last chance" to do, just a day before talks were expected to resum...
Dec 08, 2021
