Author Archives: Syndicated Content
German town converts gym hall to hold virus quarantine offenders
MENDEN, Germany (Reuters) - A German town has turned a gymnastics hall into a facility to hold potential offenders against quarantine rules that stipulate a 14-day isolation period for those who test ...
Mar 27, 2020
Syria bans most domestic travel in coronavirus lockdown
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria said on Friday it was banning travel between cities and governorates as part of tightening measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, state-run Ikhbariya TV reported, citin...
Mar 27, 2020
Trump signs $2.2T stimulus after swift congressional votes
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed an unprecedented $2.2 trillion economic rescue package into law, after swift and near-unanimous action by Congress this week. The package will...
Mar 27, 2020
Confirmed coronavirus cases in U.S. reach 100,000: Reuters tally
(Reuters) - Confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States reached 100,040 on Friday, the highest number in the world, a Reuters tally https://tmsnrt.rs/2w7hX9T showed. Italy is second with 86,498 c...
Mar 27, 2020
Athletes qualified for Tokyo 2020 to keep spots in 2021
Athletes already qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics before the Games were postponed will get to keep their spots in the rescheduled 2021 competition. About 6,200 of the 11,000 scheduled participant...
Mar 27, 2020
California Governor Newsom bans coronavirus-related evictions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California will ban evictions of tenants affected by the coronavirus outbreak through the end of May under an executive order signed by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom ...
Mar 27, 2020
Report: Almost '100 percent' chance NBA resumes without fans
If the NBA regular season resumes, it is almost "100 percent" the games will be played without fans present, ESPN's Brian Windhorst reported Friday. Windhorst said the NBA will very likely mimic the p...
Mar 27, 2020
In trenches of New York's coronavirus crisis, nurses beg, borrow and steal precious masks
By Nick Brown and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amid growing shortages of vital protective equipment in New York hospitals, healthcare workers are desperately scrounging to find facemasks, hiding sup...
Mar 27, 2020
Microsoft gives clean chit to Israeli facial recognition startup on its work
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Friday a probe found that an Israeli facial recognition startup it funded is not enabling a mass surveillance program in the West Bank as reported by some media outl...
Mar 27, 2020
Musk's SpaceX wins NASA award to supply planned lunar space station
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) - NASA on Friday picked a new space capsule from Elon Musk's SpaceX to ferry cargo and supplies to the agency's planned lunar space station, a crucial building block to its ...
Mar 27, 2020
