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U.S. CDC panel recommends use of COVID-19 vaccine boosters in immunocompromised
(Reuters) - An advisory panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday voted in favor of allowing people with compromised immune systems to receive extra doses of COVID-19 vacc...
Aug 13, 2021
Tencent, SoftBank-led funding pushes Argentina’s Uala to $2.45 billion valuation
(Reuters) - China's online giant, Tencent Holdings Ltd, and SoftBank Group Corp's Latin America-focused fund led an investment round for Argentine firm Uala which took its valuation to $2.45 billion, ...
Aug 13, 2021
U.S. drillers add most oil rigs in a week since April – Baker Hughes
By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms added the most oil rigs in a week since April as the total rig count more than doubled from a record low a year ago amid a recovery in crude prices. The...
Aug 13, 2021
Amazon’s palm print recognition raises concern among by U.S. senators
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. senators, including Democrat Amy Klobuchar who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel, wrote a letter to Amazon.com Inc to express concern about its ...
Aug 13, 2021
Private Medicare plans must return overpayments, appeals court rules
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a rule requiring private insurers that administer federally funded Medicare plans to return potentially billions of dollars in ove...
Aug 13, 2021
U.S. military base in Washington on lockdown due to potential armed individual
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A military base in Washington, D.C., said it was on lockdown on Friday because there was a potentially armed person it described as a Black man with a medium build carrying a Gu...
Aug 13, 2021
In desperation, U.S. scours for countries willing to house Afghan refugees
By Idrees Ali, Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration has been holding secret talks with more countries than previously known in a desperate atte...
Aug 13, 2021
Tony Bennett hangs up concert hat on doctor’s orders
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American singer Tony Bennett is stepping back from concert performances at the age of 95, his son said on Friday. Bennett, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016, c...
Aug 13, 2021
‘It’s like a war zone’ – U.S. Air Force veteran comforts children plagued by gun violence
By Vanessa Johnston WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Davon McNeal was just 11 years old when he was struck in the head by a stray bullet at a Fourth of July cookout in Washington, D.C., last year. Now, every Fr...
Aug 13, 2021
Facebook, Amazon seek U.S. approval to operate undersea data cable
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Facebook Inc and Amazon.com Inc have asked the U.S. government for approval to operate a new undersea data cable between the Philippines and California after ...
Aug 13, 2021
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