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U.S. rapper Lil Baby arrested in Paris for carrying cannabis – source
PARIS (Reuters) - French police arrested U.S. rapper Dominique Jones, who goes by the name Lil Baby, for allegedly carrying cannabis, a judicial source said on Friday, confirming an earlier report by ...
Jul 09, 2021
‘Like a rebirth’: Americans pack reopened concert halls for a summer of music
By Brendan O'Brien, Rich McKay, Andrew Hay and Gabriella Borter CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pamela Pickens swayed her hips as her husband Tom led her in an impromptu dance to the strumming of guitarist Studeb...
Jul 09, 2021
Retail workers in unions reap higher wages even as U.S. organizers suffer setbacks
By Richa Naidu CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wally Waugh, 57, a front-end manager at a Stop & Shop supermarket in Oyster Bay, New York, makes over $1,150 a week. He is a union member. Adam Ryan, 33, a sales cle...
Jul 09, 2021
Fencing around U.S. Capitol to come down six months after Jan. 6 attack
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Workers are expected to begin removing the last of the high-security fence around the U.S. Capitol as early as Friday, more than six months after former Preside...
Jul 09, 2021
Where the Surfside condo once stood, debate begins over what comes next
By Brad Brooks SURFSIDE, Fla. (Reuters) - Even as searchers scrambled to locate the remains of dozens more victims of a Florida condominium tower collapse, debate has begun in this beachside community...
Jul 09, 2021
Zaila Avant-garde, 14, wins spelling bee with ‘Murraya’
(Reuters) - Zaila Avant-garde, 14, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday by correctly spelling Murraya, a genus of plants, becoming the first African American to win the 90-year-old compet...
Jul 08, 2021
Mental exam ordered for California mass murder suspect shot in head by police
By Keith Coffman (Reuters) - A California judge on Thursday ordered a mental competency exam for a man accused of fatally shooting four people at a Los Angeles-area real estate office in March and who...
Jul 08, 2021
California calls for power conservation as heat wave looms
(Reuters) - California's power grid operator on Thursday issued a "flex" alert for Friday, asking consumers to conserve energy from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. as high demand driven by extreme heat could trigger...
Jul 08, 2021
Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes central California -EMSC
(Reuters) - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck central California on Thursday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said, adding the quake had a depth of 10 kms (6.21 miles). (Reporti...
Jul 08, 2021
U.S. administers 332.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 332,345,797 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 385,495,790 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Jul 08, 2021
