Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. workplace safety agency will prioritize inspection of healthcare facilities
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - The U.S. agency that enforces workplace safety laws has said it will prioritize work site inspections of healthcare facilities over other "essential" businesses that rem...
Apr 14, 2020
Ex-Trump campaign manager Manafort seeks home confinement, as COVID-19 spreads in prisons
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, became the latest high-profile federal inmate to request release on home confinement due to th...
Apr 14, 2020
Faith groups, AFL-CIO urge U.S., IMF, G20 to cancel debt for poor countries
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The AFL-CIO union federation and nearly 80 other faith groups on Tuesday urged the U.S. government, the International Monetary Fund and G20 nations to cancel debt payments by de...
Apr 14, 2020
U.S. Justice Department seeks to protect religious freedom during coronavirus restrictions: Barr
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Tuesday the Justice Department will work to uphold the constitutional right to freely practice religion as states and cities seek to c...
Apr 14, 2020
Scottish Swimming apologizes for ‘zoom-bombing’ incident
(Reuters) - Scottish Swimming has apologized to its aquatic community after an online training session with its elite athletes was crashed by a 'zoom-bomber', who subjected around 300 participants to ...
Apr 14, 2020
GM says it is ready to deliver first batch of critical care ventilators
(Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Tuesday the first batch of ventilators needed to treat severely sick coronavirus patients were ready for delivery to the United States government. Last week, the ...
Apr 14, 2020
Pakistan clerics call for lifting of congregational prayer limits
By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Prominent clerics are demanding the lifting of restrictions on congregational prayers at mosques in Pakistan, which has recorded 5,837 coronavirus cas...
Apr 14, 2020
Chile to let some prisoners out of jail, but not Pinochet-era human rights violators
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Some Chilean criminals are set to be released from crowded jails vulnerable to coronavirus after right-wing lawmakers withdrew a controversial lawsuit ...
Apr 14, 2020
Time for a haircut? Iceland to begin lifting lockdown in May
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Iceland plans to ease some of its coronavirus lockdown restrictions by allowing hair salons, museums and schools to reopen in early May, but its government said night clubs, gym...
Apr 14, 2020
‘Isolated within isolation’: keeping out coronavirus in the frozen Antarctic
By Aislinn Laing and Cassandra Garrison SANTIAGO/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - In the frozen and desolate expanse of Antarctica, Alejandro Valenzuela Pena is used to a feeling of isolation. Now, however, t...
Apr 14, 2020
