Cold and hungry: Food inflation bites Canada’s north

By Rod Nickel IQALUIT, Nunavut (Reuters) – In Canada’s remote north, residents have long paid dearly for food, and rising prices have worsened an already dire situation, exposing the vulnerability of one of the world’s biggest exporters of grains and m…

U.S. SEC proposes new rules for clearing houses

By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday proposed new rules aimed at preventing conflicts of interest in management and governance of clearing houses. Clearing houses provide essential plumbin…

Biden tours flood damage in eastern Kentucky

By Nandita Bose LEXINGTON, Ky (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday surveyed the damaged houses, uprooted trees and mud-filled roads left by severe flooding in eastern Kentucky and linked the devastation to climate change. Extreme hot weather …

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough dies at 89

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – David McCullough, best-selling author and renowned historian who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of presidents John Adams and Harry Truman, has died at the age of 89, his publisher said on Monday. McCullough died …