Category Archives: Syndicated
NBA, Knicks, Nets help donate one million masks
The NBA, the New York Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets are collaborating with China's consul general Huang Ping to donate one million surgical masks to the New York City area, governor Andrew Cuomo announ...
Apr 04, 2020
Report: NFL teams to conduct draft from homes
The 2020 NFL Draft now will be a stay-at-home affair as top team officials will participate in the April 23-25 event from their individual residences, ESPN reported Saturday. With coronavirus cases an...
Apr 04, 2020
Astros’ Verlander will donate pay during MLB shutdown
Veteran Houston Astros pitcher Justin Verlander said he will donate his adjusted paycheck during MLB's coronavirus shutdown to multiple organizations providing assistance during the crisis. Verlander ...
Apr 04, 2020
Mainland China reports 30 new coronavirus cases vs 19 a day earlier
BEIJING (Reuters) - Mainland China reported 30 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, up from 19 a day earlier as the number of cases involving travellers from abroad as well as local transmissions increa...
Apr 04, 2020
Lisbon court seizes NOS shares held by Angola’s dos Santos
LISBON (Reuters) - Sonaecom, sub-holding of Portugal's Sonae, said on Saturday evening a Lisbon court seized shares in telecommunications firm NOS of a holding company it co-owned with former first-da...
Apr 04, 2020
Guatemala bans internal travel for Easter to curb coronavirus spread
By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei has banned travel between the different departments of the Central American country before and during Easter to cur...
Apr 04, 2020
Wisconsin set to hold in-person voting in presidential primary
By Dan Simmons MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin is set to hold in-person voting next week after the state's legislature on Saturday declined to take up an effort delaying the presidential primary due t...
Apr 04, 2020
Ecuador stores coronavirus victims in giant fridges as morgues fill up
By Vicente Gaibor del Pino and Yury Garcia GUAYAQUIL (Reuters) - Ecuador's government has begun storing the bodies of victims of the coronavirus in giant refrigerated containers as hundreds of deaths ...
Apr 04, 2020
Brazil’s lawmakers pass ‘war budget’ as coronavirus cases surpass 10,000
By Gabriela Mello SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house of Congress approved a constitutional amendment for a "war budget" to separate coronavirus-related spending from the government's main budg...
Apr 04, 2020
Trump says if he has to put tariffs on oil imports to protect energy workers he will
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would put tariffs on imports of crude oil or take other measures if he has to protect energy workers from the oil price crash. "If I h...
Apr 04, 2020
