Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Congress presses DOJ to improve jail reporting system after Reuters report
By Peter Eisler and Jason Szep WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional leaders are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to strengthen its tracking of deaths in local jails following a Reuters invest...
Oct 21, 2020
Analysis: U.S. investment bankers’ new pitch – Biden’s tax hike
By Joshua Franklin and Chibuike Oguh (Reuters) - Investment bankers keen to win lucrative assignments have a new pitch for U.S. corporate owners: hire us to sell your company now or pay at least twice...
Oct 21, 2020
U.S. banks sweat regulatory exposure from pandemic loans
By Lawrence Delevingne, Koh Gui Qing and Michelle Price BOSTON/NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Banks that facilitated the U.S. government's Paycheck Protection Program at first saw the effort as a sma...
Oct 21, 2020
Some Polish school pupils to move to distance learning amid COVID-19 surge: PM
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will probably move older primary school students to distance learning, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday, as it tries to combat a big increase in COVID-19 c...
Oct 21, 2020
Cycling: Team doctor confirms Gaviria has been re-infected by COVID-19
(Reuters) - The cyclist Fernando Gaviria is one of only a handful of COVID-19 patients worldwide to have had the disease twice after his UAE Emirates team doctor confirmed on Wednesday that his test r...
Oct 21, 2020
Calhoun County COVID-19 related deaths rise to 53
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WTVB) – The latest report from the Calhoun County Public Health Department show that five more county residents have passed away since last Thursday after testing positive for ...
Oct 21, 2020
Wall Street muted with eyes on stimulus
(Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes were muted at the open on Wednesday as investors watched for signs that Washington could be close to agreeing on the next coronavirus aid package to support a fr...
Oct 21, 2020
Malaysia reports 732 new coronavirus cases; six new deaths
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia reported 732 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, raising the total to 22,957 infections. The Southeast Asian country, which imposed targeted lockdowns this month amid...
Oct 21, 2020
Iraqi leader battles pressure from friends and foes in security crackdown
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - It was a series of intercepted phone calls on a tense night in June that made Iraq's new prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi fully realise how few friends he had. During one call, a ...
Oct 21, 2020
EU signs supply deal with J&J on potential COVID-19 vaccine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Wednesday it had signed a contract on behalf of EU states with U.S. drugmaker Johnson & Johnson for the supply of 400 million doses of its COVID-19...
Oct 21, 2020
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