Microsoft, NBA team up to put virtual fans in basketball arenas
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - When the National Basketball Association restarts its coronavirus-interrupted season on July 30 in its "bubble" in Orlando, Florida, the stands could have more than 300...
View ArticleU.S. authorities say 18 Portland protesters face federal charges
By Lisa Lambert, Jason Lange and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday said it has arrested 18 people and charged them for alleged crimes committed during recent...
View ArticleMcDonald's will require customers to wear masks in U.S. restaurants
(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp said on Friday it would require customers to wear face masks in its U.S. restaurants starting next month, as new coronavirus cases surge across the country. The world's...
View ArticleYoung, healthy adults with mild COVID-19 also take weeks to recover: CDC
(Reuters) - Young, previously healthy adults can take weeks to fully recover from even a mild COVID-19 infection, with about a fifth of patients under 35 years reporting not returning to their usual...
View ArticleU.S. records 1,000 coronavirus deaths for fourth day, some progress seen
By Lisa Shumaker and Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - The United States recorded more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19 for the fourth straight day on Friday but a top White House advisor on the pandemic said...
View ArticleD.C. mayor says visitors coming from coronavirus hot spots must quarantine...
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday said anyone coming into the District of Columbia from a coronavirus hot spot who was not traveling for essential activities will be...
View ArticleWall Street Week Ahead: Investors hedging, worry about exuberance, as U.S....
By David Randall and Megan Davies NEW YORK (Reuters) - Signs of trepidation over the lasting impact of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic are growing on Wall Street, fanned by resurgent case numbers, the...
View ArticleU.S. relaxes rules to export more aerial drones
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will reinterpret a Cold War-era arms agreement between 34 nations to allow U.S. defense contractors to sell more drones to allies, the...
View ArticleCuomo accuses U.S. immigration chiefs of breaching oath in travel lawsuit
By Jonathan Allen and David Shepardson (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state may seek damages after the Trump administration admitted making false statements in a U.S. lawsuit over...
View ArticleNational Zoo in Washington reopens, despite expanded COVID-19 measures
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Zoo in Washington partially reopened to visitors on Friday for the first time in more than four months, despite the capital's mayor expanding public health measures...
View ArticleTrump signs orders to lower prescription drug prices
By Jeff Mason, Alexandra Alper and Carl O'Donnell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed four executive orders aimed at lowering the prices Americans pay for prescription...
View ArticleU.S. House panel confirms delay of Monday's Big Tech CEO hearing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional hearing scheduled for next week to question the chief executives of Facebook Inc Amazon.com Inc The hearing before the antitrust panel of the U.S. House...
View Article'Spread out? Where?' Smithfield says not all plant workers can be socially...
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods, the world's biggest pork processor, said workers cannot be socially distant in all areas of its plants, in response to U.S. senators who pressed...
View ArticleStates sue Trump over order to exclude undocumented immigrants from U.S....
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A coalition of 35 U.S. states, cities and counties sued President Donald Trump on Friday over his directive not to count undocumented immigrants when...
View ArticleAnti-communist protesters heckle staff emptying China's consulate in Houston
By Gary McWilliams HOUSTON (Reuters) - Chinese staff departed China's Houston consulate to a jeering crowd on Friday after the U.S. government ordered the building closed, calling it a hub for spying...
View ArticleFederal judge blocks part of Tennessee 'heartbeat' abortion law
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked parts of a new Tennessee law that bans abortions once a heartbeat is detected in a fetus, one of the tightest restrictions on the procedure in...
View ArticleFacebook, Twitter remove accounts of Bolsonaro supporters following court order
By Ricardo Brito and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc took down the accounts of several high-profile supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro following a...
View ArticleTransgender teen sentenced to life in prison for deadly Colorado school shooting
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado transgender teenager who admitted to taking part in a shooting at a Denver-area charter school last year that left one student dead and eight others...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court turns down church challenge to Nevada pandemic rules
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to lift a 50-person limit on religious services adopted by Nevada's Democratic governor in response to the coronavirus pandemic. By a...
View ArticleMen seen forcing open backdoor of China's Houston consulate after closure
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A group of men accompanied by a U.S. State Department official were seen forcing open a door at the Chinese consulate in Houston on Friday, shortly after a U.S. government closure...
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