Category Archives: Syndicated
U.S. Attorney General Barr taps new Brooklyn-based acting U.S. Attorney
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr designated Seth DuCharme as the new acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York on Friday. DuCharme, the curre...
Jul 10, 2020
Amazon.com says it sent the TikTok ban email to employees in error
By Echo Wang (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said it sent an email earlier on Friday that requested employees remove the TikTok app from mobile devices that also had access to company emails in error. A co...
Jul 10, 2020
U.S. judge blocks federal execution over victims’ family coronavirus fears
(Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge issued an injunction on Friday stopping what would have been the first execution of a federal prisoner in 17 years from being carried out on Monday after the victims' ...
Jul 10, 2020
ACC to decide about fall sports by end of July
The Atlantic Coast Conference will decide by the end of July how -- and if -- fall sports will proceed, commissioner John Swofford said in a league statement issued Friday afternoon. "The health and s...
Jul 10, 2020
Cash-strapped New Jersey to borrow up to $9.9 billion under deal
By Karen Pierog (Reuters) - New Jersey, one of the states hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak, would borrow up to $9.9 billion from sources that could include the U.S. Federal Reserve to deal with...
Jul 10, 2020
Brazil’s Bolsonaro appoints evangelical pastor as new education minister
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro has appoint Milton Ribeiro, an evangelical pastor and former army lieutenant, as the nation's new education minister, he said on a Facebook post on ...
Jul 10, 2020
HHS allocates Gilead’s COVID-19 drug remdesivir to four hardest hit states
(Reuters) - The U.S. government has allocated more than 11,000 courses of Gilead Sciences Inc's COVID-19 treatment remdesivir to the four states now being hardest hit by the fast-spreading outbreak in...
Jul 10, 2020
Credit Suisse settles U.S. shareholder lawsuit over debt writedowns, disclosures
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Credit Suisse Group AG agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding shareholders about its risk appetite and management before taking $1 billion of wr...
Jul 10, 2020
U.S. senators advocate for whistleblowers after fired intelligence officer complains
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Mark Warner , heads of the Senate intelligence committee, voiced their support for whistleblowers on Friday after a former counte...
Jul 10, 2020
Pandemic exposes scientific rift over proving when germs are airborne
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a clash among medical experts over disease transmission that stretches back nearly a century - to the very origins of germ...
Jul 10, 2020
