Uber rides take COVID-19 hit but food-delivery business doubles
By Tina Bellon and Akanksha Rana
(Reuters) – Home-bound customers of Uber Technologies Inc. more than doubled their orders from (More…)
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‘Possibility of external interference’: Lebanon’s president expands blast probe
By Michael Georgy and Ellen Francis
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s president said on Friday an investigation into the biggest blast (More...)
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U.S. judge agrees to end decades-old movie theater rules
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday granted the U.S. government’s request to immediately end (More…)
Democrats offer to cut $1 trillion from coronavirus plan, White House says no
By Richard Cowan and David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in Congress said on Friday they had offered to reduce (More…)
New U.S. Postal Service chief warns of ‘dire’ finances as quarterly loss narrows
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on Friday said the agency faces (More…)
Canada to impose retaliatory tariffs on C$3.6 billion worth of U.S. goods
By David Ljunggren
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will slap retaliatory tariffs on C$3.6 billion ($2.7 billion) worth of U.S. aluminum (More…)
U.S. surpasses 160,000 coronavirus deaths as school openings near
By Aurora Ellis and Maria Caspani
NEW YORK (Reuters) – More than 160,000 people have died from the coronavirus pandemic (More…)
U.S. travel warning puts virus-battered Mexico on par with war-torn nations
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department urged citizens on Thursday not to travel to Mexico, despite easing a (More…)
U.S. imposes sanctions on Hong Kong’s Lam, other officials over crackdown
By David Brunnstrom and Daphne Psaledakis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on Hong Kong Chief (More…)
Former U.S. national security adviser Scowcroft is dead at 95
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Brent Scowcroft, a pragmatic three-star general who served as national security adviser to Republican (More…)
Explainer: Trump wants to bypass U.S. coronavirus aid talks with executive order. Can he?
By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With congressional Democrats and White House negotiators so far unable to agree on a (More…)
