Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. coronavirus deaths top 100,000 as country reopens
By Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 100,000 on Wednesday even as the daily average death toll declines, businesses reopen and Americans emerge from lockdowns acr...
May 27, 2020
In lean times, fierce dinosaur Allosaurus resorted to cannibalism
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The dreaded dinosaur Allosaurus was the scourge of the Jurassic Period landscape some 150 million years ago, an apex predator just as Tyrannosaurus rex was 80 mil...
May 27, 2020
Gilead study shows shorter five-day course of remdesivir works as well as 10-day one
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc, which has suggested that a shorter treatment duration could extend limited supplies of its drug remdesivir, on Wednesday published results of a study ...
May 27, 2020
NYSE short interest rose 1.0 percent in mid-May
NEW YORK, (Reuters) - Short interest on the New York Stock Exchange rose 1.0 percent in mid-May, the exchange said on Wednesday. As of May 15, short interest rose to about 16.430 billion shares, compa...
May 27, 2020
Estonia cannot agree to EU Commission rescue plan: finance minister
TALLINN (Reuters) - Estonian Finance Minister Martin Helme, who represents a far-right party in the governing coalition of the eurozone country, said he cannot agree with the EU Commission's economic ...
May 27, 2020
Exclusive: Venezuela reaches deal with U.N. to buy food, medicine with gold - central bank
By Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has reached a deal with the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) to destine part of its gold in Bank of England accounts to finance the purchase of food an...
May 27, 2020
U.N. warns of possible war crimes in northeastern Congo
By Stanis Bujakera KINSHASA (Reuters) - Widespread and systematic killings, beheadings, rape and other barbaric acts by militia mostly from the ethnic Lendu community in northeastern Congo may constit...
May 27, 2020
World TeamTennis picked Greenbrier so fans could watch live tennis
By Frank Pingue (Reuters) - World TeamTennis said on Wednesday it had several options for where to stage its 2020 season but selecting the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia was an easy decision as it...
May 27, 2020
Sea turtles appear next to Rio airport thanks to fewer flights amid pandemic
By Sergio Queiroz RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Sea turtles have been spotted swimming amid garbage next to an airport in Brazil's tourist hotspot of Rio de Janeiro, as the scream of jet engines that wou...
May 27, 2020
Anti-inflammatory drugs may help keep virus in check; mornings not ideal for fever screening
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caus...
May 27, 2020
