Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. State Department to investigate swastika carved into elevator
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A swastika was found carved into the wall of a U.S. State Department elevator, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday, prompting an investigation into how the symbol of Nazi hate ended u...
Jul 27, 2021
California State University system to require COVID vaccination from fall term
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The California State University system will require students, faculty and staff on its campuses from the fall term to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the university system annou...
Jul 27, 2021
Texas power grid passes test, more to come as heat wave lingers
(Reuters) - The Texas power grid passed the first of what could be many tests over the next week by meeting very high demand on Monday without problems as homes and businesses cranked up their air con...
Jul 27, 2021
U.S. House panel holds hearing on pandemic evictions by corporate landlords
By Michelle Conlin NEW YORK (Reuters) - Corporate landlords continue to evict tenants - many of them people of color - during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite a federal ban on evictions, a congressional...
Jul 27, 2021
Schumer says he hopes U.S. Senate can vote on bipartisan infrastructure plan by week’s end
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday he was optimistic an agreement could be reached soon on the details of a bipartisan infrastructure plan and hoped a bill c...
Jul 27, 2021
Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for ‘abominable’ cyberstalking campaign
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A former supervisor for security operations at eBay Inc was sentenced on 18 months in prison for his role in a cyberstalking campaign that targeted a Massachusetts c...
Jul 27, 2021
CDC will recommend K-12 students, teachers wear masks regardless of vaccinations -sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday plans to recommend all kindergarten through 12th grade students and teachers wear masks regardless of vaccin...
Jul 27, 2021
‘Loving being 60’: Texas pageant contestants show age is just a number
By Vanessa Johnston DALLAS (Reuters) - Piano teacher and grandmother of seven Kimberly Ghedi used to think 60 was a death sentence. But since reaching that milestone, the 63-year-old started working o...
Jul 27, 2021
Investor Steinhardt loses case over George Washington portrait sale
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Steinhardt, a former hedge fund titan on Wall Street, lost a lawsuit he filed against an art gallery and its president for allegedly making an "unfair secr...
Jul 27, 2021
Non-profit announces plans to renovate Peoria’s Madison Theater
PEORIA, Ill. — An effort to restore the historic Madison Theater in downtown Peoria is taking shape. Plans to reopen the theater, built in 1920, would be part of a larger project that would relo...
Jul 27, 2021
