TOKYO / BOSTON (Reuters) – Asian stocks fell on Friday after loud Chinese economic data and concerns about a slowdown in U.S. fiscal stimulus that discouraged some investors from taking risks. FILE PHOTO: A visitor wearing a protective face mask, after an outbreak of the coronavirus, walks past for a …
Read More »Three more U.S. states are launching coronavirus exposure warning apps
OAKLAND, Caliph. (Reuters) – North Dakota, Wyoming and Alabama are the latest U.S. states to launch apps to warn users about potential exposure to the new coronavirus by following their conversations, state officials told Reuters on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: The 1919 mobile app, which North Dakota and South Dakota officials …
Read More »Wildfire from Southern California forces evacuation of hundreds of homes
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A wildfire in California has forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes as it was largely undisturbed by densely forested mountains north of Los Angeles that finally burned 50 to 100 years ago, firefighters said Thursday. The frame of a car is burned as a fast-moving …
Read More »Cannon Hinnant shooting: 25-year-old is accused in the death of 5-year-old Hinnant
Austin Hinnant told CNN affiliate WRAL that he was inside the house when his son, Cannon, was playing outside and was shot. Hinnant says he walked outside and looked at the injured child and held him in his arms. “I cried ‘someone help me, please help me save my son,'” …
Read More »Note: What we know about possible COVID-19 transfer of cargo and packages
WELLINGTON / BEIJING (Reuters) – China this week reported several cases of frozen food packaging infected with the novel coronavirus, while New Zealand said it was investigating the possibility that its latest COVID-19 cases could be recovered after imported cargo. PHILO PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel …
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