Author Archives: Syndicated Content
McDonald’s urges dismissal of Black former franchisees’ discrimination lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp on Friday urged a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit by dozens of Black former franchise owners who accused the fast-food giant of racial discrimination fo...
Oct 23, 2020
Wildfire smoke may help virus spread, mouthwash helps curb it
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Oct 23, 2020
J&J preparing to resume U.S. trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidate
Johnson & Johnson said on Friday it was preparing to resume a large clinical trial of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine in the United States after an independent safety panel recommended enrollments f...
Oct 23, 2020
Biden says he would if elected mandate masks in interstate transportation
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday said he would mandate masks in all interstate U.S. transportation if elected after the Trump administra...
Oct 23, 2020
Facebook, Twitter CEOs to testify post-election: U.S. Senate panel
By Richard Cowan and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Friday the chief executives of Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will testify before the panel on Nov. 1...
Oct 23, 2020
U.S. judge denies new government bid to remove China’s WeChat from U.S. app stores
By David Shepardson (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in San Francisco on Friday rejected a Justice Department request to reverse a decision that allowed Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to continue to offe...
Oct 23, 2020
Maple Leafs re-sign D Dermott to one-year deal
The Toronto Maple Leafs re-signed defenseman Travis Dermott to a one-year, $874,125 contract Friday. Dermott, 23, registered four goals and seven assists in 56 regular-season games in 2019-20. The Ont...
Oct 23, 2020
Slovenia’s foreign minister tests positive for COVID-19: media
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Slovenia's Foreign Minister Anze Logar tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday after a trip to Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia earlier this week, state news agency STA said. L...
Oct 23, 2020
Pennsylvania can not reject mail-in ballots due to signature discrepancy -state court
By Costas Pitas (Reuters) - Pennsylvania's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that mail-in ballots cannot be refused because a voter's signature does not appear to match the one on file, a decision that co...
Oct 23, 2020
Seven bodies found in fertilizer shipment from Serbia to Paraguay
By Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) - The badly decomposed bodies of seven people who may have been stowaways were found on Friday inside a shipment of fertilizer that left Serbia three months ago,...
Oct 23, 2020
