Author Archives: Syndicated Content
France seizes 440,000 face masks as it breaks up medical smuggling networks
PARIS (Reuters) - French police have dismantled smuggling networks trying to take advantage of a rush to buy medical supplies including face masks to tackle the coronavirus epidemic, the interior mini...
May 08, 2020
CFL commish: 2020 season likely off, league in trouble
As part of a request for balloon funding to keep the league in position to play, Canadian Football League commissioner Randy Ambrosie told the House of Commons the 2020 season would "most likely" be c...
May 08, 2020
Working women, and especially single moms, are hit hard by coronavirus downturn
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - Before she was laid off from her bartending job in Charleston, South Carolina, Shana Swain used to spend her nights serving food and mixing Manhattans and Cosmopolitans. ...
May 08, 2020
NFL has flexibility to delay '20 schedule
Plans are subject to change during a pandemic, and the NFL is armed with the ability pause or delay the start of the 2020 season. ESPN's Adam Schefter reported the NFL could delay the season by severa...
May 08, 2020
NBPA president: NBA 'bubble' plan 'incarceration'
Isolating players to resume the NBA season sounds like a closed book if National Basketball Players Association executive director Michele Roberts is telling the story. In an interview with ESPN, Robe...
May 08, 2020
U.S. jobless rate likely much higher than 14.7%, Labor Department says
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Millions of U.S. residents were counted as employed in April despite having no job, suggesting April's true unemployment rate was closer to 20%, much higher than the official...
May 08, 2020
Italy tops 30,000 coronavirus deaths, new cases edge down
ROME (Reuters) - Italy on Friday became the third country in the world to record 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus, reporting 243 new fatalities compared with a daily tally of 274 the day before. Ita...
May 08, 2020
Member of U.S. Vice President's staff tests positive for coronavirus: NBC reporter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A member U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's staff has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, which caused Pence's Friday flight to Iowa to be delayed and some fellow passenger...
May 08, 2020
U.S. chief justice puts hold on disclosure of Russia investigation materials
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday put a temporary hold on the disclosure to a Democratic-led House of Representatives committee of grand jury material...
May 08, 2020
Still hiring! Walmart, other superstores buck U.S. employment trend
By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid the carnage of the U.S. employment report for April was one bright spot: superstores led by Walmart Inc , the world's largest retailer, added more than ...
May 08, 2020
