Author Archives: Syndicated Content
AG Nessel’s office charges two for threats made to public officials
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Two men are facing criminal charges for reportedly making threats against public officials in the events leading up to and following the November general election, Mic...
Feb 23, 2021
Musk’s SpaceX raises $850 million in equity financing
(Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX has raised about $850 million in equity financing, the private rocket launch service said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. The private space company had ra...
Feb 23, 2021
Suriname begins coronavirus vaccination campaign with donated doses
PARAMARIBO (Reuters) - Suriname launched a coronavirus vaccination campaign on Tuesday with a small batch of donated doses, as the South American nation seeks a steady supply of inoculations. The impo...
Feb 23, 2021
Jana Partners nominates directors at Labcorp, including Crawford
BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist investment firm Jana Partners has nominated directors to the board of life sciences company Laboratory Corp of America Holdings, including Edwin "Mac" Crawford, who has a r...
Feb 23, 2021
U.S. Postal Service awards contract to Oshkosh Defense to build delivery vehicles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service said Tuesday it would award a multi-billion-dollar, 10-year contract to Oshkosh Defense to manufacture a new generation of postal delivery vehicles. Unde...
Feb 23, 2021
Facebook’s oversight board has received appeal from ‘user’ in Trump ban case
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's oversight board has received a "user statement" for the case it is deciding about whether the social media company was right to indefinitely suspend former President Donald ...
Feb 23, 2021
U.S. Senate backs Tom Vilsack as Biden’s agriculture secretary
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday backed President Joe Biden's nominee, Tom Vilsack, to serve as secretary of agriculture. As voting continued, the 100-member Senate backed Vilsack, who w...
Feb 23, 2021
Analysis: Boeing alters course in speedy response to engine blowouts
By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Two years ago, after a second fatal 737 MAX crash in five months, Boeing Co worked behind the scenes to urge aviation regulators not to ground the jet. Its effor...
Feb 23, 2021
Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at age 101
By Bill Trott (Reuters) - Poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, whose City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco became a West Coast literary haven for Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac and Al...
Feb 23, 2021
Last statue of dictator Franco removed in ‘historic day’ for Spain
MELILLA, Spain (Reuters) - The last statue of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was removed on Tuesday from the city gates of Melilla, a Spanish enclave and autonomous city on the northwest Afr...
Feb 23, 2021
