Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Iraqi engineer turns art into business amid bleak job market
BASRA (Reuters) - Iraqi engineer Wassan Ismail started creating and selling artwork after struggling to find a job in an economy battered by conflict and sanctions. The petroleum engineer, who lives i...
Aug 02, 2021
UPDATE: Officer ran towards gunfire after being shot in leg Sunday morning, arrest made
PEORIA, Ill. — More details have been released surrounding the officer-involved shooting early Sunday morning near Taft Homes. According to Sgt. Amy Dotson, the officer observed a large fight ne...
Aug 02, 2021
Officer who responded to U.S. Capitol attack is third to die by suicide
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - A third police officer who responded to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol died by suicide last week, the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department said on Monday. ...
Aug 02, 2021
McDonald’s makes masks mandatory for all customers, staff
(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp on Monday confirmed that all its customers and staff will need to start wearing masks again inside its U.S. restaurants in areas with high or substantial transmission, rega...
Aug 02, 2021
U.S. CDC extends COVID-19 policy allowing border expulsions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday extended a Trump-era policy allowing for the expulsion of migrants across U.S. borders, citing COVID-19 risks. CDC...
Aug 02, 2021
Meet a pint-size U.S. piano prodigy
(Reuters) - Brigitte Xie reads music, can play Beethoven's Sonatina in F Major and has won a spot to perform at Carnegie Hall. She is 4 years old. Brigitte's feet dangle above the ground when the peti...
Aug 02, 2021
Factbox: What’s in the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate pushed ahead on Monday with a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill to update America's roads, bridges and broadband networks, clearing the way for ...
Aug 02, 2021
Trump to object to release of tax returns – lawyer
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump will challenge a recent U.S. Justice Department order that his tax returns should be turned over to a House of Representatives committee, on...
Aug 02, 2021
In Bolivia, ritual fires honor earth goddess Pachamama
(Reuters) - High atop the Andes Mountains in Bolivia, indigenous people gathered at dawn for a ritual ceremony in honor of Pachamama, the goddess of Earth and fertility, with fires and offerings. On t...
Aug 02, 2021
Prosecutor in early talks with some Proud Boy defendants to resolve Jan 6 case
By Sarah N. Lynch and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors revealed on Monday they are in preliminary settlement talks with several men affiliated with the Proud Boys group who ar...
Aug 02, 2021
