NEW YORK (AFP) – MacKenzie Scott, one of the world’s wealthiest women, announced on Tuesday (June 15) a new round of large charitable donations totalling US$2.7 billion (S$3.5 billion) for educational, community and other nonprofit organisations. The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has pledged to give away the bulk of her fortune from […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – United States and Canadian officials are set to meet on Tuesday (June 15) to discuss how to eventually lift pandemic-related border restrictions between the two countries, but no immediate action is expected, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Monday. US and Canadian business leaders have voiced increasing concern about the […]
A supermarket worker has been killed and three other people injured after she was shot by a customer following an argument about face masks. The shooting happened in the Big Bear Supermarket in Decatur, DeKalb County, about seven miles east of central Atlanta on Monday afternoon. The shooter, identified by police as Victor Lee Tucker […]
BRUSSELS (REUTERS) – US President Joe Biden views the Republican Party as vastly diminished in numbers even as it remains in lockstep with the man he defeated, former president Donald Trump. “The leadership of the Republican Party is fractured and the Trump wing of the party is the bulk of the party, but it makes […]
The front-runner in the race for mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, took aim at his rival Kathryn Garcia on Monday as the campaign entered its final week and a new poll showed that the two candidates were the leading contenders. Mr. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, clearly sees Ms. Garcia as a threat: […]
Arizona and Nevada are bracing for the possibility of record-breaking temperatures. Firefighters confronting small blazes in California may be forced to do so in triple-digit heat. The operator of the Texas power grid has urged residents to minimize their electricity usage or risk outages. A heat wave this week across the western United States, which […]
An Iowa man convicted of assaulting and spitting on another man in a fight over how he was wearing his mask has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, the latest decision as the authorities weigh the cases of people involved in mask disputes over the last year. The fight took place after a confrontation […]
President Joe Biden said that Ukraine needs to do more to crack down on corruption, after its president Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced that North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders agreed to accept his country as a member. Biden made the remark during his press conference on Monday following a morning and afternoon of meetings at the […]
President Joe Biden sent a ‘strong message’ of the US’s commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the organization’s secretary general said as leaders of the 30 member countries convened for the 2021 summit. Biden worked to patch up the US’s relationship with NATO after his predecessor Donald Trump criticized the alliance and did […]
The field of accounting is overwhelmingly white, a racial group that makes up 84 percent of all certified public accountants in the United States. Of the nonwhite groups, just 2 percent are Black, according to a report published in 2019 by the Association of International Certified Public Accountants. Rumbi Bwerinofa-Petrozzello, a forensic accountant, wants to […]