Author Archives: Syndicated Content
French grandmas brave COVID risk to spend Christmas with the family
By Lea Guedj MAGNY-LE-HONGRE, France (Reuters) - Josette Boyeldieu and Guylene Lehmann are pensioners, one of the groups most at risk from COVID-19, but that did not discourage them from spending part...
Dec 24, 2020
Canada expands added screening to travelers from South Africa amid COVID-19 variant worries
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada on Thursday expanded enhanced screening and monitoring measures to travelers arriving from South Africa, citing the rise of a more infectious variant of COVID-19 in that coun...
Dec 24, 2020
California brush fire at U.S. Marine base forces evacuation of 7,000-plus residents
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wind-driven flames racing through miles of dry brush on a U.S. Marine Corps base in Southern California prompted the evacuation of more than 7,000 residents on Thursday from ne...
Dec 24, 2020
Silver defends Harden punishment: "It's Christmas"
(Reuters) - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Thursday said a $50,000 fine was sufficient discipline for James Harden after the Houston Rockets guard broke the league's COVID-19 protocols by attending a...
Dec 24, 2020
Kevin Spacey tells people who are struggling 'It does get better'
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey on Thursday appealed to people who were struggling with shame or depression not to take their own lives. Spacey, who has largely disappeared from publ...
Dec 24, 2020
Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch sold for knockdown price
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's famed Neverland Ranch in California has finally sold, more than 10 years after the death of the pop star who abandoned the property following his trial on cha...
Dec 24, 2020
Santa on his way, vaccinated and free of quarantine restrictions - U.S. officials
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Santa Claus, vaccinated against COVID-19 and free of quarantine restrictions mere mortals face, was making his annual jaunt across the globe on Christmas Eve and being ...
Dec 24, 2020
Pope urges help for poor at low-key Christmas Eve Mass curbed by COVID
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis celebrated a low-key Christmas Eve Mass made sombre by the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday and said people should feel obliged to help the nee...
Dec 24, 2020
Explainer: Can anything stop Trump from pardoning his family or even himself?
By Jan Wolfe President Donald Trump on Wednesday granted pardons to his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former adviser Roger Stone, sweeping away the most important convictions from U.S. Sp...
Dec 24, 2020
More than 600,000 people in UK get first Pfizer COVID vaccine dose
(Reuters) - More than 600,000 people in the United Kingdom have received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the government said on Thursday. "The government has today published fi...
Dec 24, 2020
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