Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Norwegian Cruise Line urges judge to block Florida vaccine passport ban
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Norwegian Cruise Line heads to federal court on Friday in a battle that pits the company's plan for returning to the seas against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's vow to oppose ...
Aug 06, 2021
Steep obstacles for U.S. Congress effort to legalize ‘Dreamer’ immigrants
By Richard Cowan and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A battle to win a path to citizenship for "Dreamer" immigrants, following two decades of defeat, is underway in the U.S. Senate as Democrats face...
Aug 06, 2021
Analysis-Trump’s new challenge: How to spend $90 million
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's Save America fundraising committee has raised more than $90 million since his election defeat last year, one of the biggest hauls by any Republican...
Aug 06, 2021
Factbox-COVID-19 and the U.S. courts: challenges to vaccine requirements
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - The resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the United States due to the Delta variant has prompted public and private employers and schools to mandate coronavirus vaccines, drawing le...
Aug 06, 2021
U.S. nurses’ COVID-19 grief pours out online: ‘I just don’t want to watch anyone else die’
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Nichole Atherton couldn't take it anymore. The intensive care nurse watched helplessly last year as COVID-19 sufferers died in her Mississippi hospital - slowly, painfully and...
Aug 06, 2021
Six, including pilot, killed in crash of Alaska sightseeing plane
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Six people were killed on Thursday when a sightseeing plane crashed in a mountainous area of southeast Alaska, officials said, leaving no survivors. The c...
Aug 06, 2021
Chinese online platforms need to rein in celebrity “star-making” – state-media
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese online platforms ought to rein in the over promotion of celebrities in order to protect minors, an op-ed article published in the state-owned People's Daily said on Friday...
Aug 05, 2021
CNN fires three employees who came to office unvaccinated – memo
(Reuters) - News media company CNN has terminated three of its employees for coming to the office unvaccinated against the COVID-19 last week, according to a memo sent to staff internally on Thursday....
Aug 05, 2021
Exclusive: U.S. starts flying migrant families into Mexico far from border – source
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday began flying Central American and Mexican families to southern Mexico in an effort to deter migration by bolstering a COVID-era expul...
Aug 05, 2021
Factbox: CBO estimate leaves U.S. budget shortfall for infrastructure bill backers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congressional Budget Office on Thursday issued its long-awaited judgment that a $1 trillion infrastructure bill being debated in the U.S. Senate will be far from fully ...
Aug 05, 2021
