Category: World News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Smartphone software makers Alphabet’s Google and Apple will have to convince the public that any contact tracing technology to track who has been exposed to the new … Read More

By Stephanie Nebehay and Kate Kelland GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) in the midst … Read More

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday postponed the fraud trial of Theranos Inc founder Elizabeth Holmes to Oct. 27, citing the coronavirus pandemic that has largely … Read More

(Reuters) – Best Buy Co Inc said on Wednesday it would furlough about 51,000 hourly U.S. store employees and that its sales dropped about 5% in the first two months … Read More

By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday announced it will hear a dispute over whether President Donald Trump’s tax and financial records … Read More

By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) – The governors of five U.S. states have asked the Trump administration for a nationwide waiver exempting the oil-refining industry from the nation’s biofuel laws to … Read More

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he does not expect delays in the mailing of coronavirus relief paper checks to millions of Americans, … Read More

BELFAST (Reuters) – Northern Ireland will keep coronavirus restrictions in place for another three weeks, First Minister Arlene Foster said on Wednesday, keeping the British-run region in line with similar … Read More

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States could redirect to other aid groups some $400 million it would have paid the World Health Organization this year, senior Trump … Read More

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – Pulling funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) is a dangerous and nonsensical move when the world is facing the health crisis brought by … Read More