Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Australia’s Victoria state reports 12 new COVID-19 cases, two deaths
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's coronavirus hot spot of Victoria state on Thursday reported two deaths from the coronavirus and 12 new cases, compared with five deaths and 15 cases a day earlier. Victo...
Sep 23, 2020
Trump says no meeting planned with possible Supreme Court pick Lagoa
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he has no meeting planned with Cuban-American federal appellate judge Barbara Lagoa, but she is on his list of possible nominees to...
Sep 23, 2020
State of Michigan budget in place, ready to begin new fiscal year on October 1
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Wednesday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that the State budget for the Fiscal Year 2021 has been finalized and ready to launch. According to Whitmer’s offi...
Sep 23, 2020
Houston study: More contagious coronavirus strain now dominates
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - The first study to analyze the structure of the novel coronavirus from two waves of infection in a major city found that a more contagious strain dominates recent samples,...
Sep 23, 2020
China’s post-pandemic recovery has severe regional imbalances – survey
BEIJING (Reuters) - While China's coastal provinces and major cities are recovering from the coronavirus pandemic, firms in its poorer western and central provinces are falling well behind in metrics ...
Sep 23, 2020
Crews make headway against massive California wildfire
By Mimi Dwyer LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Firefighters notched a victory in their battle to beat back a massive blaze raging outside Los Angeles, more than doubling containment in the past 24 hours, the U...
Sep 23, 2020
Tesla could struggle to implement some of its battery advances, experts say
(Reuters) - The advanced battery cell design and new manufacturing processes outlined by Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk are promising, battery experts say, but they questioned how quickly they can be impleme...
Sep 23, 2020
Exclusive: Top adviser steps aside from FDA COVID-19 vaccine reviews over potential conflict
By Dan Levine and Marisa Taylor (Reuters) - A physician who heads the influential U.S. Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory committee recused herself from the panel's review of COVID-19 vacci...
Sep 23, 2020
Oil-trading bribery probe widens with new U.S. charges, guilty pleas
By Sabrina Valle RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged a former U.S. employee of a Swiss energy trading firm with bribery and a Florida company pleaded guilty to bribery as a probe into ...
Sep 23, 2020
Fund to cut emissions in developing world cities launched
LONDON (Reuters) - A new multilateral finance fund was launched on Wednesday that aims to cut carbon emissions and improve conditions in developing-world cities. Implemented by the World Bank and the ...
Sep 23, 2020
