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Soaring lumber prices reverberate through U.S. housing market

By Stephen Culp

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Skyrocketing lumber prices threaten to thwart the momentum of the U.S. housing market, (More…)

Third-trimester vaccination appears safe; Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine effective in those with chronic illnesses

By Nancy Lapid

(Reuters) -The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus (More…)

Time running out for missing Indonesian submarine as U.S. joins search

By Yuddy Cahya Budiman and Ajeng Dinar Ulfiani

BANYUWANGI, Indonesia (Reuters) -Rescue teams were battling against time on Friday to (More…)

SpaceX rocket ship launches 4 astronauts on NASA mission to space station

By Steve Gorman

(Reuters) -NASA and Elon Musk’s commercial rocket company SpaceX launched a new four-astronaut team on a flight (More…)

U.S. appeals court denies Dakota Access rehearing request, environmental review to continue

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday denied Dakota Access LLC’s petition for a rehearing on a (More…)

U.S. manufacturing activity accelerates in early April; supply constraints worsening

By Lucia Mutikani

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. factory activity powered ahead in early April, but manufacturers increasingly struggled to source (More…)

Hospitals overrun as India’s COVID-19 infections top global record for second day

By Alasdair Pal and Neha Arora

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) -People scrambled for life-saving oxygen supplies across India on Friday and (More…)

China could rule world’s technology, UK cyber spy chief says

By Guy Faulconbridge

LONDON (Reuters) -The West must urgently act to ensure China does not dominate important emerging technologies and (More…)

More risks to pregnant women, their newborns from COVID-19 than known before – study

(Reuters) – Pregnant women infected with COVID-19 and their newborn children face higher risks of complications than was previously known, (More…)

At least 130 migrants feared drowned in Mediterranean as capsized boat, bodies found

MILAN (Reuters) -Merchant vessels and a charity ship searching the Mediterranean for boats carrying migrants has found 10 bodies floating (More…)