Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. governor calls on Biden to overturn trade ruling against SK Innovation
DETROIT (Reuters) - The governor of Georgia on Friday called on President Joe Biden to overturn a trade ruling made against SK Innovation, saying that the decision would hurt the electric vehicle batt...
Feb 12, 2021
VIX ‘fear gauge’ ends below 20 for first time in nearly a year
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Cboe Volatility Index, known as Wall Street's "fear gauge," ended below 20 for the first time in nearly a year on Friday. The VIX fell 1.28 points to end at 19.97. It had not ...
Feb 12, 2021
Britain’s Karim Khan elected International Criminal Court prosecutor
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Parties to the International Criminal Court on Friday elected Britain's Karim Khan as the new prosecutor for a nine-year term starting June 16. Khan won a secret ballot, beating o...
Feb 12, 2021
U.N. envoy urges U.S. to relax Venezuela sanctions, drawing opposition rebuke
By Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) - A U.N. envoy on Friday said U.S. and E.U. sanctions on Venezuela were worsening a humanitarian crisis and recommended the United States relax the measures, an arg...
Feb 12, 2021
Biden makes first trip to the rustic mountain retreat of Camp David
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are spending their first weekend at Camp David, the storied retreat in the mountains of western Maryland that many ...
Feb 12, 2021
Snow, freezing rain forecast for U.S. heartland on Valentine’s Day weekend
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fresh wave of wintry weather will keep a vast swath of the United States in a deep chill over Valentine's Day weekend, forecasters said on Friday, an outlook that should encoura...
Feb 12, 2021
UPDATE: Two bodies found during search for two Portage residents
UPDATE – PORTAGE MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A search for two missing Portage residents in the Gourdneck Lake preserve has turned up two bodies, but authorities say that they have not yet been ident...
Feb 12, 2021
Nets’ Kevin Durant cleared to return after virus scare
Kevin Durant has been cleared to return to the Brooklyn Nets' lineup just in time for his first road matchup with his former team, the Golden State Warriors. Durant, who missed three games because of ...
Feb 12, 2021
Iran faces COVID surge in southwest, receives second vaccine batch
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran declared 10 southwestern communities as high-risk COVID-19 "red" zones as a consignment of 100,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine arrived on Friday, Iranian media report...
Feb 12, 2021
Delay in U.S. census data could muddle 2022 congressional elections
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - U.S. census data used once a decade to redraw legislative districts will not be made available until September, officials said on Friday, a delay that could make it difficult ...
Feb 12, 2021
