Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Senior CDC official Nancy Messonnier resigns from her position – Washington Post
(Reuters) - Nancy Messonnier, a senior health official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will resign from her position, she told colleagues in an email on Friday, The Washington Post ...
May 07, 2021
Thousands pack Al-Aqsa Mosque, protest Palestinian evictions in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Palestinian worshippers packed into Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on the final Friday of Ramadan and many stayed on to protest in support of Palestinians facing...
May 07, 2021
U.S. Chamber calls for end to $300-a-week jobless aid to ease labor shortage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Friday said the federal government should end the $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit in President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 a...
May 07, 2021
Pfizer asks Swiss OK for COVID-19 vaccine for children 12 to 15
ZURICH (Reuters) - Pfizer has sought Swiss regulatory approval for its COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 12 to 15, regulator Swissmedic said on Friday. It is currently authorised for people aged 16 an...
May 07, 2021
Data shows waning COVID impact on U.S. jobs searches, White House’s Boushey says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Data in the U.S. Labor Department's April jobs report shows people are out looking for work, with fewer citing COVID-19 as keeping them from their searches, White House economic...
May 07, 2021
Athletics-CAS rejects appeal by former Olympic walk champion Schwazer
(Reuters) - Italian former Olympic 50km walk champion Alex Schwazer had his appeal against an eight-year doping ban dismissed on Friday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Schwazer filed a "r...
May 07, 2021
U.S. wholesale inventories rise solidly in March
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. wholesale inventories rose sightly less than initially estimated in March as sales surged amid robust demand. The Commerce Department said on Friday that wholesale inventor...
May 07, 2021
Grand jury indicts four former police officers in George Floyd’s death
(Reuters) - A federal grand jury on Friday indicted four ex-police officers involved in the arrest and death of George Floyd on charges they violated Floyd's civil rights while carrying out the arrest...
May 07, 2021
Bank of England does not see COVID bankruptcy wave: Haldane
By David Milliken and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England does not expect to see a wave of bankruptcies among British firms when the government ends its coronavirus emergency supp...
May 07, 2021
CEA’s Bernstein: Jobs report shows ‘steep climb’ still ahead
(Reuters) - The disappointing U.S. employment report for April shows the economy still has a long road ahead to recover from the losses suffered in the coronavirus pandemic, but the shortfall does not...
May 07, 2021
