Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
‘Big risk’: California farmers hit by drought change planting plans
By Norma Galeana and Christopher Walljasper FIREBAUGH, Calif. (Reuters) - Joe Del Bosque is leaving a third of his 2,000-acre farm near Firebaugh, California, unseeded this year due to extreme drought...
Jun 01, 2021
Major rulings including Obamacare loom for U.S. Supreme Court
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court heads into the last month of its current term with several major cases yet to be decided including a Republican bid to invalidate the O...
Jun 01, 2021
Biden eyes grants, federal purchasing to narrow racial wealth, home ownership gaps
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will announce steps on Tuesday to narrow the large and persistent racial wealth gap that divides Black, Latino and white Americans, although...
Jun 01, 2021
Biden to visit Tulsa massacre site as U.S. confronts racial legacy
By Jeff Mason and Heather Timmons WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Biden on Tuesday will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site of the massacre of hundreds of Black Americans by a white m...
Jun 01, 2021
New York police charge man with hate crime for assault on Asian woman
By Derek Francis (Reuters) - New York City police have charged a man with a hate crime after he was arrested for an unprovoked assault on a 55-year old Asian woman in the Chinatown area, police said. ...
Jun 01, 2021
In Memorial Day speech, Biden defends ‘imperfect’ democracy
By Andrea Shalal ARLINGTON, Va. (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden used his Memorial Day speech on Monday to defend America's "imperfect" democracy, calling for more work to deliver the promise of w...
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
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
