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Amid high security, small pro-Trump crowd rallies at U.S. Capitol

Editorial Bureau September 19, 2021

WASHINGTON (US) -Police and media vastly outnumbered protesters around the U.S. Capitol on Saturday at a sparsely attended rally by supporters of the people who breached the building on Jan. 6, trying to overturn former President Donald Trump’s election defeat. About 100 to 200 protesters

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U.S. Capitol on high alert as pro-Trump demonstrators converge for rally

Editorial Bureau September 18, 2021

WASHINGTON (US) – Hundreds of police officers will be on duty around the U.S. Capitol on Saturday braced for a rally by supporters of the hundreds of people who breached the building on Jan. 6 trying to overturn former President Donald Trump’s election defeat. A black eight-foot-high (2.44 m) fence which surrounded the white-domed building […]

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COVID-19 victims remembered on Washington’s National Mall with 650,000 white flags

Editorial Bureau September 18, 2021

WASHINGTON (US) – An exhibition of white flags representing Americans who have died of COVID-19 opened on Friday, covering more than 20 acres of the National Mall in Washington. Last year, artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg created an outdoor installation in Washington comprised of more than 267,000 white flags – one for every person in the […]

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Multimillionaire real estate heir Robert Durst is convicted of murder in L.A

Editorial Bureau September 18, 2021

A California jury on Friday found multimillionaire real estate heir Robert Durst guilty of murdering his best friend Susan Berman in 2000, the first homicide conviction for a man suspected of killing three people in three states over the past 39 years. Durst, 78 and frail, will likely die in prison as the jury also […]

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As California fire nears, crews protect world’s largest tree in special wrap

Editorial Bureau September 18, 2021

THREE RIVERS, Calif. (US) -Fire crews in California have resorted to wrapping the bases of some giant sequoias in fire-resistant coverings in a desperate effort to save the towering specimens, including the General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, the National Park Service said on Friday. The blaze, one of dozens to erupt across several western […]

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Data project backed by Al Gore aims for real-time emissions monitoring

Editorial Bureau September 16, 2021

BOSTON – A technology and academic coalition backed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore was set to unveil on Thursday data showing fossil fuel producers’ previously unrecorded greenhouse gas emissions, and growing pollution from shipping and aviation. Other details about the precise sources of climate change are also shown in the material by Climate […]

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All-civilian SpaceX crew feels only ‘good kind’ of jitters before launch

Editorial Bureau September 15, 2021

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The four would-be citizen astronauts poised to ride a SpaceX rocket ship around the globe as the first all-civilian crew launched into orbit said on Tuesday they were eager for liftoff on the eve of their flight, feeling only “the good kind” of jitters. “I was just worried that this moment […]

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Heavy downpours from Nicholas batter Texas, Louisiana

Editorial Bureau September 14, 2021

HOUSTON (Reuters) -Heavy rains lashed Texas and Louisiana on Tuesday as Hurricane Nicholas weakened into a tropical storm, bringing the threat of widespread floods and power outages as it swept down the U.S. Gulf Coast. It is the second major storm to threaten the region in recent weeks after Hurricane Ida killed more than two […]

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Twenty years after 9/11, one of the last U.S. Marines killed in Afghanistan comes home

Editorial Bureau September 12, 2021

LAWRENCE, Mass. – U.S. Marine Sergeant Johanny Rosario returned to her hometown in Massachusetts in a casket on Saturday, one of the last American service members killed in Afghanistan during a war set in motion exactly two decades ago by the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. (Content and Photos Syndicate via Reuters)

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Los Angeles school officials call for vaccines for students 12 and up

Editorial Bureau September 10, 2021

LOS ANGELES (US) -Los Angeles County school officials ordered COVID-19 vaccinations for all students aged 12 and over on Thursday, the largest school district in the United States to take that dramatic step. School board members voted unanimously to mandate the shots in the coming weeks despite angry objections from several parents who said they […]