Author Archives: Syndicated Content

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday voted to approve President Joe Biden's nominees for U.S. Trade Representative and Deputy Treasury Secretary, but voted in a tie on...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new ETF that tracks an index ranking the top 75 stocks each month that display the highest degree of "positive investor sentiment" as gauged by the monitoring of 15 million onli...

Eager for a fresh start with a new team, J.A. Happ needed to slow down before throwing a single pitch for the Minnesota Twins. The left-hander tested positive for COVID-19 upon reporting to spring tra...

By Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Facebook has taken down 185 accounts and groups engaged in an information influencing operation in Thailand run by the military, the company said on Wedn...

By Beth Harris Like everyone else, Katie Ledecky was forced to shelve her plans when the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Instead of looking far into the future, the five-time Olympic champion swimmer ...

(Reuters) - "Everything will be OK," read 19-year-old Angel's T-shirt as the dancer and taekwondo champion joined anti-coup protesters in Myanmar on Wednesday. But she had known it might not be OK - l...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Vitol, the world's largest independent oil trader, offered to pay Mexican national oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) $17 million in damages after Vitol admitted to paying br...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge in Houston knocked $5.7 million off the fine Exxon Mobil Corp faces for pollution from its largest U.S. crude oil refinery, according to court documents. U.S. Distr...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - New infections of COVID-19 are dropping in the United States, Canada and Mexico, but in Latin America vaccinations have hardly begun, raising the risk of dangerous new variants em...

By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Coronavirus restrictions led to a record 7% fall in global carbon emissions last year, but the drop will be short-lived unless efforts to phase out fossil fuel are ...