Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Oprah Winfrey donates $10 million for coronavirus relief
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oprah Winfrey said on Thursday she was donating $10 million to coronavirus relief efforts, including a new venture to help get food to vulnerable Americans during the coronavir...
Apr 02, 2020
Gender divide: Peru limits men and women to alternate days out to stall virus
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Amid a strict quarantine in Peru to slow the spread of a coronavirus pandemic, men and women will only be allowed to leave their homes on designed days divided up by g...
Apr 02, 2020
Colombia quarantine brings evictions for Bogota's poorest
By Nelson Bocanegra BOGOTA (Reuters) - Jose Ramirez - whose total belongings fit into a scratched black suitcase and a backpack - is resigned to spending the night in a scruffy park in the depressed c...
Apr 02, 2020
U.S. unemployment to shoot up while GDP declines in second quarter: congressional estimators
By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate will shoot past 10% in the second quarter and the growth rate of gross domestic product will decline by more than 7% as the coronaviru...
Apr 02, 2020
FIFA chief says football will be totally different after coronavirus
ROME (Reuters) - Football will be totally different when it eventually resumes after the coronavirus outbreak, the head of global soccer body FIFA Gianni Infantino said on Thursday. "Football will com...
Apr 02, 2020
Global coronavirus cases top one million: Johns Hopkins tally
(Reuters) - Global coronavirus cases topped 1 million on Thursday as the pandemic explodes in the United States and the death toll continues to climb in Italy and Spain, according to a tally by Johns ...
Apr 02, 2020
Starboard pushes forward with proxy fight at GCP Applied Technologies
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist investor Starboard Value is pushing ahead with a proxy contest at GCP Applied Technologies , arguing that its director nominees would steer the chemi...
Apr 02, 2020
U.S. Army rolls into Seattle with field hospital built for combat
By Phil Stewart (Reuters) - Army Specialist Jordan Acosta thinks his family would have been more comfortable seeing him deploy to Iraq than this field hospital in the U.S. city of Seattle, one of the ...
Apr 02, 2020
Chilean capital gets another visit from cougar amid coronavirus lockdown
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean authorities captured a second cougar in little more than a week late Wednesday after the cat was spotted strolling through an upscale suburb of Santiago amid the evening q...
Apr 02, 2020
Bolsonaro says coronavirus 'not all it's being made out to be'
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro continued to downplay the coronavirus epidemic on Thursday, saying it is "not all it's being made out to be" and denying that any hospital in th...
Apr 02, 2020
