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Mexico City’s third wave of pandemic drives up hospital occupancy
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - COVID-19 hospitalizations in Mexico City and its suburbs, home to some 21 million people, increased by a third in the last week, authorities said on Friday, amid a third wave o...
Syndicated Content Jul 23, 2021
J&J shot recipients may need a booster; new advice on infected kids
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19. Johnson & Johnson shot...
Syndicated Content Jul 23, 2021
Exclusive-Democrats may scrap matching funds from infrastructure bill over wage issue
By Jarrett Renshaw and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats are threatening to scrap plans to create an infrastructure bank in the $1.2 trillion bipartisan spending bill after Republicans op...
Syndicated Content Jul 23, 2021
Florida asks Supreme Court to lift CDC coronavirus cruise ship order
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The state of Florida on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a lower-court decision to take effect that said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) co...
Syndicated Content Jul 23, 2021
Colombia boosts budding cannabis industry by removing ban on dry flower exports
By Nelson Bocanegra BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia on Friday gave the green light for exports of dried cannabis for medical and other industries, as the Andean country took another step to develop its ma...
Syndicated Content Jul 23, 2021
Pentagon says report that U.S. approved Chinese drone for purchase ‘inaccurate’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon said on Friday that drones produced by Chinese manufacturer Da Jiang Innovations (DJI) pose a potential threat to national security and that a media report that they...
Syndicated Content Jul 23, 2021

IDPH: Nearly 8,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last week
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Friday reported 7,983 new cases of COVID-19, including 47 additional deaths since last Friday. According to IDPH, more than 73...
Dalton Kemper Jul 23, 2021
Over 71% of Lebanon’s population risks losing access to safe water – UNICEF
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations warned on Friday that more than four million people in Lebanon, including one million refugees risked losing access to safe water as shortages of funding, fuel an...
Syndicated Content Jul 23, 2021
Beijing tutoring crackdown slams U.S.-listed Chinese stocks
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Fears of increased of regulation from Beijing crushed U.S.-listed Chinese stocks on Friday following a Chinese government crackdown on private educators. U.S. shares of T...
Syndicated Content Jul 23, 2021
COVID-19 outbreak at Oregon’s Bootleg blaze sidelines 9 firefighters
By Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - The first COVID-19 outbreak among firefighters battling the enormous Bootleg fire in Oregon has put nine of them in quarantine as weather forecasters on Friday warned t...
Syndicated Content Jul 23, 2021
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