Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. CDC internal report calls Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox – NYT
(Reuters) - The Delta variant is much more contagious, more likely to break through protections afforded by the vaccines and may cause more severe disease than all other known versions of the virus, a...
Jul 30, 2021
Analysis-Why TV audiences are tuning out the Tokyo Olympic Games
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - Broadcasters will not be taking home any gold medals for how many people have watched the Tokyo Olympic Games so far. In several major markets around the world, the TV audi...
Jul 29, 2021
Seeing snow for the first time at 62: Brazilians revel in icy snap
(Reuters) - Temperatures dropped across Brazil on Thursday - with rare snowfall overnight in some places - as a polar air mass advanced toward the center-south of the global agricultural powerhouse, t...
Jul 29, 2021
Former U.S. Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, dead at 87
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, a long-serving Democratic leader on national security issues who strenuously opposed the Iraq War and investigated U.S. detainee abus...
Jul 29, 2021
Two tornadoes touch down in Pennsylvania, several hurt
(Reuters) -Two tornadoes touched down in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, collapsing the roof of a car dealership and injuring several people, a county spokesman said. One of the twisters hit ...
Jul 29, 2021
U.S. Navy sailor charged in fire aboard USS Bonhomme Richard
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy sailor was charged on Thursday with starting a fire last year that burned for four days on the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard, injurin...
Jul 29, 2021
Biden calls for big budget bill to include immigration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, who has called for providing a pathway to citizenship for so-called Dreamer immigrants, said on Thursday that a big budget bill being written by Democra...
Jul 29, 2021
Factbox-Biden’s new COVID push: vaccine rules, testing plans, hard cash
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Thursday announced new measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 and the new Delta variant in the United States that will impact millions of federal workers, contracto...
Jul 29, 2021
Space station mishap prompts NASA to postpone launch of Boeing Starliner
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - NASA on Thursday postponed a planned launch of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner capsule to the International Space Station after the orbiting outpost was briefly thrown out of co...
Jul 29, 2021
New York judge finds Cuba Gooding Jr liable in rape accuser’s civil lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday found Cuba Gooding Jr liable in a civil lawsuit by a woman who accused the Oscar-winning actor of raping her twice in a Manhattan hote...
Jul 29, 2021
