WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Eager to bolster the healthcare system during the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. government last month sped $30 billion in stimulus payments to most healthcare providers that billed Medicare last year. FILE PHOTO: Oklahoma National Guardsmen wait to sanitize a residents room during a decontamination mission at a longterm care facility, amid the
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U.S. President Donald Trump departs on travel to the Camp David presidential retreat from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 1, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump intends to nominate Keith Dayton to be the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, the White House said on Friday, a year
(Reuters) – Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Saturday voiced his support for the U.S. women’s soccer team, a day after it suffered a setback in its gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation. FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the 11th Democratic candidates
Healthcare workers and members of the Bolivarian national police watch as an ambulance arrives with prisoners outside a hospital after a riot erupted inside a prison in Guanare, Venezuela May 1, 2020. REUTERS/Manuel Alvarado CARACAS (Reuters) – A prison riot in the western Venezuelan state of Portuguesa has left at least 46 people dead and
Play video content Exclusive There’s an old saying — “Close but no cigar” — which precisely describes what went down at Luke Bryan‘s Florida cigar bar Friday night, because patrons were super close to each other. Luke’s cigar bar, Shore Thing Cigars, is located in Watersound, Florida, and on Friday night it was the backdrop
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has mandated that all public and private sector employees use a government-backed Bluetooth tracing app and maintain social distancing in offices as New Delhi begins easing some of its lockdown measures in lower-risk areas. FILE PHOTO: Employees wearing protective masks work inside a call centre run by Uttar Pradesh state
FILE PHOTO: A view of Tesla Inc’s U.S. vehicle factory in Fremont, California, U.S., March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo (Reuters) – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) told furloughed employees on Friday that they will remain out of work for at least another week, postponing a plan to resume normal operations on May 4 at its San
FILE PHOTO: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a coronavirus response meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 29, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci will not testify next week to a congressional committee examining the
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian authorities are rounding up undocumented migrants as part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, officials said, after hundreds of migrants and refugees were detained in the capital Kuala Lumpur. FILE PHOTO: Police officers wearing protective suits pick up an illegal immigrant from an apartment under enhanced lockdown, during
FILE PHOTO: Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center Moses Division hospital hold a protest demanding N95 masks and other critical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to handle patients during the outbreak coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April 2, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid (Reuters) – A U.S. District Court on
Zola Jesus has released her first-ever live album. She dropped Live at Roadburn 2018 earlier today (May 1) on her Bandcamp page. The LP will arrive on other streaming platforms May 8. Pre-sale for vinyl and CD versions of the release will also commence that day. Listen to the 12-track album, which was recorded at
Fox’s newest reality TV show Labor of Love is helping 41-year-old bachelorette Kristy Katzmann find the perfect father-to-be. Before indulging in the debut on May 21, here is a brief introduction to the potential dads vying for fatherhood. With reality dating shows becoming increasingly popular, networks and producers are getting creative with their premises. Netflix has encouraged singles
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OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – More people stayed home in Brazil, Japan and Singapore in April as their novel coronavirus cases surged, while people in the United States and Australia returned to parks and jobs as infection rates flattened, data from Google show. FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Google logo is seen in this illustration taken
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A half-hour staff meeting in a secure location. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks to reporters after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates in an emergency move designed to shield the world’s largest economy from the impact of the coronavirus, during a news conference in Washington, U.S., March
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As Democratic presidential hopefuls descended on New Hampshire prior to the state’s Feb. 11 primary, John Tackeff was busy. John Tackeff, representing the Partnership, queries presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard on a financial transaction tax at a campaign event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S., December 31, 2019. Public News Service/Kevin Bowe/Handout via REUTERS