Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Maple Leafs’ Auston Matthews wins Hart Memorial Trophy at NHL Awards
Toronto Maple Leafs star forward Auston Matthews won the 2022 Hart Memorial Trophy for the NHL's most valuable player Tuesday night. During the league's "NHL Awards" show in Tampa, Matthews also picke...
Jun 21, 2022
Rain-triggered floods in Bangladesh conjure climate warnings
By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists say that climate change was likely to have made the the rains that unleashed catastrophic flooding across Bangladesh worse. While South Asia's monsoon ra...
Jun 21, 2022
Biden expected to call on Wednesday for suspending the federal gas tax, source says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is expected on Wednesday to call for temporarily suspending the 18.4-cents a gallon federal tax on gasoline, a source briefed on the plan told Reuters o...
Jun 21, 2022
Brazilian police reconstruct murder of British journalist and indigenous expert
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A fisherman who has confessed to participating in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira has taken part in a police reconstru...
Jun 21, 2022
Fed to lift rates by 75 basis points in July, 50 bps in September - Reuters poll
By Prerana Bhat and Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve will deliver another 75-basis-point interest rate hike in July, followed by a half-percentage-point rise in September, and ...
Jun 21, 2022
Ukraine and Russia forces entrenched, Putin to mark WWII anniversary
(Reuters) - Ukrainian and Russian forces remained entrenched in eastern Ukrainian battlegrounds going into Wednesday, a day of commemoration in both countries to mark the anniversary of Hitler's invas...
Jun 21, 2022
Messaging app Telegram: few paid subscribers needed to cover costs
(Reuters) - The Telegram messaging app, used by a wide range of Russian and Ukrainian officials during the war, only needs a small number of paid subscribers to cover its costs, founder Pavel Durov sa...
Jun 21, 2022
South Dakota lawmakers vote to remove attorney general after fatal car crash
(Reuters) - South Dakota lawmakers voted on Tuesday to convict the state's attorney general of two impeachment articles stemming from a 2020 car crash in which he struck and killed a pedestrian, local...
Jun 21, 2022
Canada passes bill to compel local content on streaming platforms
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's lower house of the parliament passed legislation on Tuesday that would bring online streaming platforms under the stewardship of the country's broadcast regulator and compe...
Jun 21, 2022
Meta and other tech giants form metaverse standards body, without Apple
By Katie Paul (Reuters) - Meta, Microsoft and other tech giants racing to build the emerging metaverse concept have formed a group to foster development of industry standards that would make the compa...
Jun 21, 2022
