Author Archives: Syndicated Content
French restaurant serves up food of the future: insects
By Yiming Woo PARIS (Reuters) - Laurent Veyet's tasting menu is not for the faint-hearted, but may point to the future of feeding a booming world population - there is a prawn salad with yellow mealwo...
May 31, 2021
U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for 10 Cuban migrants from capsized boat near Florida
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said it has suspended the search for 10 Cuban migrants believed missing from a boat that capsized off Key West, Florida. Two people were killed and 1...
May 31, 2021
State COVID roundup 5/30: 50% of IL adults fully vaccinated
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) on Sunday reported 602 new cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 18 deaths. In addition, 67% of Illinois adults have receiv...
May 31, 2021
U.S. travelers hit the road again with Memorial Day holiday still subdued by pandemic
By Peter Szekely NEW YORK (Reuters) - With half the country at least partially protected against the coronavirus, Americans were fleeing their pandemic doldrums over the three-day holiday weekend that...
May 31, 2021
Factbox-What was the 1921 Tulsa race massacre?
By Makini Brice (Reuters) - This week marks the centenary of a white mob's deadly attacks on the African Americans of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Below is background on the events in Tulsa on May 30...
May 31, 2021
After 100 years remembering, last survivors mark race massacre in Tulsa
By Makini Brice TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) - Lessie Benningfield Randle, 106, can still remember a house engulfed in flames and the bodies stacked in truckbeds, one hundred years later. "I was quite a lit...
May 31, 2021
Earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes central Alaska – GFZ
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck central Alaska in the United States, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles) , GFZ s...
May 31, 2021
NBA-Irving blasts ‘human zoo’ environment at arenas after fan throws bottle
(Reuters) - Brooklyn Nets' Kyrie Irving said NBA arenas had become like "human zoos" after a fan was arrested for throwing a water bottle at the former Celtic guard on Sunday. Video posted on social m...
May 30, 2021
Man suspected of planning mass shooting at Walmart store arrested in Texas
(Reuters) - A man suspected of planning a mass shooting was arrested in Texas after authorities intercepted a message that indicated he was "preparing to proceed", the Kerr County Sheriff's Office (KC...
May 30, 2021
Four more Oath Keepers indicted in Jan. 6 federal conspiracy case: court filing
(Reuters) - A newly unsealed indictment on Sunday named additional members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group that participated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol, as defendants for their...
May 30, 2021
