Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Dutch PM Rutte hopes to lift social distancing rules Sept 20
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday said the government is considering lifting social distancing rules on Sept. 20 as COVID-19 cases in the Netherlands ease. In the week en...
Aug 13, 2021
Amazon's palm print recognition raises concern among by U.S. senators
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. senators, including Democrat Amy Klobuchar who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel, wrote a letter to Amazon.com Inc to express concern about its ...
Aug 13, 2021
Private Medicare plans must return overpayments, appeals court rules
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a rule requiring private insurers that administer federally funded Medicare plans to return potentially billions of dollars in ove...
Aug 13, 2021
Olympics: PETA calls on IOC president to remove equestrian events from Games
(Reuters) - PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday to eliminate equestrian events from future Olympics citing cruelty to horse...
Aug 13, 2021
U.N. says evaluating Afghanistan security hourly, no staff evacuation
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is evaluating the security situation in Afghanistan on "an hour-by-hour basis" and moving some staff to the capital Kabul, but is not ...
Aug 13, 2021
U.S. military base in Washington on lockdown due to potential armed individual
(Corrects southwest Washington to southeast Washington in 2nd paragraph) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A military base in Washington, D.C., said it was on lockdown on Friday because of a potentially armed per...
Aug 13, 2021
In desperation, U.S. scours for countries willing to house Afghan refugees
By Idrees Ali, Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration has been holding secret talks with more countries than previously known in a desperate atte...
Aug 13, 2021
Tony Bennett hangs up concert hat on doctor's orders
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American singer Tony Bennett is stepping back from concert performances at the age of 95, his son said on Friday. Bennett, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016, c...
Aug 13, 2021
Boeing to return Starliner to factory, launch delayed
(Reuters) -Boeing Co will return its CST-100 Starliner to the factory to resolve a valve issue, the company said on Friday, delaying the launch date of the space capsule to the International Space Sta...
Aug 13, 2021
'It's like a war zone' - U.S. Air Force veteran comforts children plagued by gun violence
By Vanessa Johnston WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Davon McNeal was just 11 years old when he was struck in the head by a stray bullet at a Fourth of July cookout in Washington, D.C., last year. Now, every Fr...
Aug 13, 2021
