Category Archives: Syndicated
Facebook names first members of oversight board that can overrule Zuckerberg
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's new content oversight board will include a former head of state, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and several constitutional law experts and rights advoca...
May 06, 2020
Musicals out, one-man plays in: Broadway gets creative waiting for show to go on
By Jill Serjeant and Alicia Powell (Reuters) - Television can fake it, movie audiences can wear masks, but a live theatre performance like "Romeo and Juliet" needs real actors kissing and fighting riv...
May 06, 2020
U.S. announces $225 million in emergency aid to Yemen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will provide $225 million in emergency aid to Yemen to support food programs, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, as aid groups there are fo...
May 06, 2020
EU wants WHO review of lessons learnt from coronavirus crisis: draft
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The European Union is backing calls for a timely review of the international response to the coronavirus pandemic, including the World Health Organization's per...
May 06, 2020
MLB: Indians prepping for June 10 workouts, July 1 Opening Day
At least one MLB team is planning to resume workouts June 10 with designs on being ready for a potential 2020 Opening Day of July 1. The Cleveland Indians held a video conference with players and othe...
May 06, 2020
Facebook’s Libra appoints HSBC legal chief Stuart Levey as CEO
(Reuters) - Libra Association, the entity managing the Facebook Inc-led effort to build global digital currency Libra, on Wednesday named Stuart Levey as its first chief executive officer. Levey is cu...
May 06, 2020
States ask Trump administration to pay laid off oil workers to plug abandoned wells
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - A coalition of U.S. oil producing states has asked the Trump administration for stimulus funds to hire laid off energy workers to plug abandoned wells, a proposal aimed at...
May 06, 2020
Fed’s lending programs aren’t for insolvent oil drillers, Dallas Fed’s Kaplan says
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Insolvent or overly leveraged firms, including oil drillers and oil services firms, won't be able to tap the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program for "Main Street," Da...
May 06, 2020
New York governor says some states making a mistake by reopening
(Reuters) - States that are reopening their economies despite rising infection rates for the novel coronavirus are making a mistake, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday, urging that such ...
May 06, 2020
New coronavirus adapts to populations; vaccine works in monkeys
By Nancy Lapid NEW YORK (Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness cau...
May 06, 2020
