Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Norwegian Cruise Line urges judge to block Florida vaccine passport ban
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Norwegian Cruise Line heads to federal court on Friday in a battle that pits the company's plan for returning to the seas against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's vow to oppose ...
Aug 06, 2021
Steep obstacles for U.S. Congress effort to legalize ‘Dreamer’ immigrants
By Richard Cowan and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A battle to win a path to citizenship for "Dreamer" immigrants, following two decades of defeat, is underway in the U.S. Senate as Democrats face...
Aug 06, 2021
Manila locks down as Philippines virus cases near four-month high
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines placed its Manila capital region under a two week lockdown on Friday as the Southeast Asian country's health ministry reported 10,623 new coronavirus cases, the larg...
Aug 06, 2021
Olympics-Debut climbing gold as sun torches volleyball sands, diplomacy intrudes
By Karolos Grohmann and Martin Petty TOKYO (Reuters) - Beach volleyball players roasted on the sands of Tokyo Bay https://www.reuters.com/article/olympics-2020-vbv/olympics-beach-volleyball-us-ross-kl...
Aug 06, 2021
UBS Global Wealth Mgmt bets on energy, financials, Japan in reflation trade
By Divya Chowdhury (Reuters) - UBS Global Wealth Management is betting on a reflation trade in the United States and globally linked to economic reopening as the world emerges from the COVID-19 Delta ...
Aug 06, 2021
Taliban kills Afghan gov’t top media officer, US condemns
KABUL (Reuters) -Taliban fighters on Friday assassinated the Afghanistan government's top media and information officer in the capital Kabul, an act condemned by the senior U.S. diplomat in the countr...
Aug 06, 2021
Analysis-Trump’s new challenge: How to spend $90 million
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's Save America fundraising committee has raised more than $90 million since his election defeat last year, one of the biggest hauls by any Republican...
Aug 06, 2021
Factbox-COVID-19 and the U.S. courts: challenges to vaccine requirements
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - The resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the United States due to the Delta variant has prompted public and private employers and schools to mandate coronavirus vaccines, drawing le...
Aug 06, 2021
‘Weapon of war’: the U.S. rifle loved by drug cartels and feared by Mexican police
By Diego Or and Drazen Jorgic MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The flow of high-caliber arms smuggled across the porous U.S. border has alarmed Mexican officials and few weapons are as powerful as the U.S.-mad...
Aug 06, 2021
U.S. nurses’ COVID-19 grief pours out online: ‘I just don’t want to watch anyone else die’
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Nichole Atherton couldn't take it anymore. The intensive care nurse watched helplessly last year as COVID-19 sufferers died in her Mississippi hospital - slowly, painfully and...
Aug 06, 2021
