SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA (REUTERS) – Several people were killed and others were wounded when a person with a gun opened fire in a light rail yard in San Jose, California, on Wednesday (May 26), the county sheriff’s office said. Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Deputy Russell Davis told reporters that there were “there are multiple injuries […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States told Russia on Thursday (May 27) it will not rejoin the Open Skies arms control pact, which allows unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, a US official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was confirming a report by the Associated Press. US Deputy Secretary of State […]
Anthony Crawford worries his job may be in jeopardy. For two years he’s taught English and creative writing at Millwood High School in Oklahoma City and since the murder of George Floyd, he’s held intense debates about race and history with his students. But a new Oklahoma state law, passed in early May, is set […]
Senate Republicans countered President Biden’s latest infrastructure offer on Thursday, suggesting $928 billion in total spending over eight years as lawmakers and the administration struggle to narrow vast policy differences and assemble a bipartisan package to address the nation’s public works system. Compared to Mr. Biden’s latest offer to spend $1.7 trillion in new funds, […]
With virus vaccinations on the decline nationally, states are offering big incentives, even $1 million prizes. Will it work? By Sarah Mervosh After the state of Ohio announced with great fanfare that residents who got at least one shot of a coronavirus vaccine would be eligible to win a hefty $1 million, Jack Pepper saw […]
MIAMI (REUTERS) – Two people were killed and 10 others were believed to be missing from a boat that capsized off Key West, Florida, the United States Coast Guard reported on Thursday (May 27). Eight survivors were pulled from the water 29km south-west of Key West by crew members of a cutter on patrol in […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – The white woman who falsely told police that a Black bird-watcher threatened her in New York City’s Central Park sued her former employer Franklin Templeton, saying it fired her without doing a fair investigation and falsely portrayed her as racist. Amy Cooper said in a Tuesday night complaint that Franklin Templeton’s […]
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – The US is entering a period of intense competition with China as the government running the world’s second-biggest economy becomes ever more tightly controlled by President Xi Jinping, the White House’s top official for Asia said. “The period that was broadly described as engagement has come to an end,” Kurt Campbell, the […]
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Texas lawmakers are poised to allow adults over the age of 21 to openly carry a handgun in public without a permit, a measure being hailed as a victory by gun rights advocates while critics said it would lead to an increase in gun violence. The Republican-led State House and Senate […]
An alligator that was deemed ‘overweight’, ‘unathletic’ and with ‘terrible arthritis’ managed to escape a zoo, baffling the owner. Rex the gator went missing from Doc’s Zoo at Doc’s Harley-Davidson in Bonduel, Wisconsin, on Saturday morning. What baffled owner Steve ‘Doc’ Hopkins was that Rex was the only one of four animals in the outdoor […]