Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Explainer: Can Trump call in troops to quell Election Day unrest?
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he decides the Nov. 3 presidential election results are fraudulent and has proposed mobil...
Oct 27, 2020
Fame or blame? What lies ahead for 'the Squad', as they eye second terms in U.S. Congress
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They came to Washington to shake things up and in their first two years in the U.S. House of Representatives the four lawmakers popularly known as 'the Squad' a...
Oct 27, 2020
Consumer companies pitch discounts, bargain products as economic malaise looms
By Siddharth Cavale and Martinne Geller (Reuters) - Unilever, Procter & Gamble and other major consumer goods manufacturers are touting lower-priced brands, smaller packages and discounts to woo penny...
Oct 27, 2020
Malaysia reports 835 new coronavirus cases, two deaths
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's health ministry reported 835 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, raising the total to 28,640 infections. The Southeast Asian country also recorded two new deaths, tak...
Oct 27, 2020
Pandemic transforms some Americans into voting rights activists in raft of lawsuits
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Fear of the novel coronavirus has cast some Americans into an unfamiliar role: litigants in an unprecedented wave of court battles over voting procedures. For Regina Root, 53, ...
Oct 27, 2020
Fake news spread on WhatsApp to Indian Americans plays stealth role in U.S. election
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - New Jersey tech entrepreneur Arun Bantval is U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden's top fake-news watchdog on messaging service WhatsApp about the Democrat ...
Oct 27, 2020
Huawei CFO's lawyers set to grill witnesses as U.S. extradition case resumes
By Tessa Vikander and Moira Warburton VANCOUVER/TORONTO (Reuters) - The second day of witness testimony in the extradition case of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou to the United States will...
Oct 27, 2020
Vaccines, not spy planes: U.S. misfires in Southeast Asia
By Tom Allard JAKARTA (Reuters) - For months, by Zoom calls and then by jet, Indonesian ministers and officials scoured the world for access to a vaccine for the coronavirus that Southeast Asia's bigg...
Oct 27, 2020
Big Tech earnings approach under antitrust cloud
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Apple , Alphabet , Amazon and Facebook , together accounting for about a fifth of the S&P 500's total value, report their quarterly results on Thursday, with their stocks...
Oct 27, 2020
'Baptism by fire' for newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Barrett
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newly confirmed conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett faces a barrage of politically fraught cases in her first days on the job, as the co...
Oct 27, 2020
