Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. Senator Blumenthal demands AT&T drop push for ad-subsidized cellphone plans
By Kenneth Li (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal on Friday called on AT&T Inc to stop pursuing plans to offer cellphone plans partially subsidized by advertising that he said would undermine ...
Sep 18, 2020
Russia to resume flights with Belarus, others next week
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will resume flights with Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan from Sept. 21 and with South Korea from Sept. 27, Russia's coronavirus crisis centre, a government body, said in a...
Sep 18, 2020
Exclusive: Playboy explores deal to return to the stock market
By Joshua Franklin and Mike Spector (Reuters) - Playboy magazine owner Playboy Enterprises is exploring options that include going public through a merger with a blank-check acquisition company, accor...
Sep 18, 2020
French coronavirus cases jump to new daily record over 13,000
PARIS (Reuters) - France reported on Friday that it had registered 13,215 new confirmed coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, a new record, after the number of cases on Thursday exceeded 10,000 fo...
Sep 18, 2020
Zoox gets driverless car test permit in California, a win for Amazon
(Reuters) - California-based self-driving startup Zoox Inc on Friday received a permit from California's Department of Motor Vehicles to test driverless vehicles without a backup driver in the front s...
Sep 18, 2020
U.S. Justice Department indicts six with conspiracy to pay bribes to Amazon employees
By Nandita Bose and Jeffrey Dastin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday six people have been indicted by a grand jury in Washington state with conspiring to pay commercial...
Sep 18, 2020
Calhoun County reports first horse EEE case
MARSHALL, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The first case of a horse contracting Eastern Equine Encephalitis has been reported in Calhoun County. The Battle Creek Enquirer reports the Calhoun County Public Health De...
Sep 18, 2020
Azarenka lends tearful Kasatkina helping hand after injury in Rome
(Reuters) - Victoria Azarenka moved into the quarter-finals of the Italian Open in Rome on Friday when her opponent Daria Kasatkina injured her ankle and retired, but not before the Belarusian comfort...
Sep 18, 2020
U.S. House Speaker Pelosi to meet with top U.S. airline CEOs
By David Shepardson and Tracy Rucinski WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi will speak on Friday afternoon with the chief executives of top U.S. airlines, who a...
Sep 18, 2020
Ig Nobel science award: An alligator on helium sounds like …?
(Reuters) - If humans sound like Minnie Mouse after inhaling helium, would an alligator squeak on the gas used to float balloons? This profound puzzle challenged a global research team to record an al...
Sep 18, 2020
