Category Archives: National
Fox settles lawsuit with fired former producer Grossberg for $12 million
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Fox Corp has settled for $12 million a lawsuit by former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, who had claimed gender discrimination and accused the network's lawyers of pressuring her...
Jun 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A Fox News channel sign is seen on a television vehicle outside the News Corporation building in New York City, in New York, U.S. November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
UPDATE: Biden condemns Supreme Court decision on student loans, proposes new measures
UPDATED 3:55 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday condemned a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that blocked his plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt and announced new actions ...
Jun 30, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down race-conscious student admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, during brief remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 29, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File photo
Versatile Oscar-winning American actor Alan Arkin dies at 89 - Variety
(Reuters) - Alan Arkin, a versatile and prolific American actor who thrived in both comic and dramatic roles and won an Oscar for playing a heroin-using grandfather in the 2006 film "Little Miss Sunsh...
Jun 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Actor Alan Arkin poses during the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada April 23, 2015. Alan Arkin was honored with the CinemaCon Lifetime Achievement Award. CinemaCon is the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo
UPDATE: US Supreme Court blocks Biden student loan forgiveness
UPDATED 12:16 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S Supreme Court handed President Joe Biden a painful defeat on Friday, blocking his plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt - a move that had be...
Jun 30, 2023 A sign calling for student loan debt relief is seen in front of the Supreme Court as the justices are scheduled to hear oral arguments in two cases involving President Joe Biden's bid to reinstate his plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt in Washington, U.S., February 28, 2023. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/
US Supreme Court deals setback to LGBT rights in web designer case
(Reuters) - In a blow to LGBT rights, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the constitutional right to free speech allows certain businesses to refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings,...
Jun 30, 2023 Web designer Lorie Smith, plaintiff in a Supreme Court case who objects to same-sex marriage, poses for a portrait at her office in Littleton, Colorado, U.S., November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/
Fresh flight disruptions threaten to mar US Fourth of July holiday travel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of Americans traveling by air for the Fourth of July holiday is expected to surpass pre-COVID levels for the first time in four years but recent flight disruptions rais...
Jun 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: An American Airlines plane sits at a gate at Logan Airport ahead of the July 4th holiday in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 28, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Jury acquits former Florida deputy of failing to protect students in Parkland school shooting
(Reuters) -A Florida jury on Thursday acquitted a former sheriff's deputy accused of failing to protect students during the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Scot ...
Jun 29, 2023 Scot Peterson, a former sheriff's deputy accused of failing to protect students during the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, reacts after he was found not guilty on all charges at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S., June 29, 2023. Amy Beth Bennett/Pool via REUTERS
Biden calls on US colleges to consider adversity during admission process
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday urged colleges to take into account challenges that applicants face, including racial discrimination, during the admissions process after the U.S....
Jun 29, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down race-conscious student admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, during brief remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 29, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
U.S. Supreme Court curbs affirmative action in university admissions
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious student admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina in a sharp setback to affirmative action...
Jun 29, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Students attend the 367th Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 24, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
More than 100 million Americans at risk as Canadian wildfire smoke spreads
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Nearly a third of Americans will experience poor air quality on Thursday as smoke from prolonged Canadian wildfires fill the skies over the Midwest and East, causing unhealthy and, ...
Jun 29, 2023 A man walks along Pittsburgh's Mount Washington as smoke from raging Canadian wildfires creates hazy skies, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. June 28, 2023. REUTERS/Quinn Glabicki
