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Blinken calls on U.S. Senate to approve State Dept nominees before August recess
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has more than 65 nominees awaiting confirmation, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday at a regular news briefing, calling on the U.S. ...
Aug 02, 2021
Very slow Oregon robot sets a running record
(Reuters) - It was slow but it still made history. Cassie, a robot invented at Oregon State University in Corvallis, has set a record as the first two-legged robot to use machine learning to control i...
Aug 02, 2021
Bill Gates, Melinda French officially divorced -Business Insider
(Reuters) - The divorce between Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, co-founders of one of the world's largest private charitable foundations, was finalized on Monday, Business Insider reported, citin...
Aug 02, 2021
Factbox: Major U.S. companies making masks, vaccines mandatory
(Reuters) - The resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the United States due to the Delta variant and the new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that requires fully vacci...
Aug 02, 2021
U.S. confident Iran carried out attack on tanker – Secretary Blinken
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is confident that Iran carried out a drone attack on an Israeli-managed tanker transiting through international waters near Oman on Friday, U.S. Secretary of S...
Aug 02, 2021
Olympics-Gold medal boosts pandemic-hit surf paradise in Brazil
By Leonardo Benessatto BAIA FORMOSA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's gold medal performance in surfing did not just boost the country's medal tally in Tokyo, it also gave a fillip to business in the small...
Aug 02, 2021
70% U.S. adults have taken at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine – CDC
(Reuters) - Nearly three out of four Americans above the age of 18 have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Aug 02, 2021
Ernst & Young, auditors to pay over $10 million to settle SEC charges
(Reuters) - Accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP, a partner and two former employees agreed to pay over $10 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges they violated auditor indepen...
Aug 02, 2021
Tunisian president relieves finance, agriculture and technologies ministers from position -presidency
CAIRO (Reuters) - Tunisian President Kais Saied relieved both the finance and economy minister and the communications and technologies minister who is also acting agriculture and water resources minis...
Aug 02, 2021
Olympics-Baseball-Boston Red Sox minor leaguers making a difference at Games
By Paresh Dave YOKOHAMA, Japan, 3 (Reuters) - The Boston Red Sox have more of their minor league players represented at Tokyo 2020 than any other Major League Baseball (MLB) club, and they have been a...
Aug 02, 2021
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