By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – State election officials recounted on Tuesday how Donald Trump supporters threatened them and their families after they refused to help the former president overturn his 2020 election defeat…
Does Beyonce’s new summer song channel the ‘Great Resignation’?
By Sharon Kimathi LONDON (Reuters) – American pop star Beyonce Knowles-Carter has surprised fans with an early release of her single ‘Break My Soul’ from upcoming album ‘Renaissance’, setting social media ablaze with song lyrics that some say tap into …
Record number of travelers to hit U.S. roads for July 4 weekend -AAA
(Reuters) -A record 42 million people around the United States are expected to hit the road for trips over the July 4 Independence Day weekend, AAA said Tuesday, absorbing historically high fuel costs to crowd the highways. That figure, should it pan o…
U.S. Supreme Court backs public money for religious schools
By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court further reduced the separation of church and state in a ruling on Tuesday endorsing more public funding of religious entities as its conservative justices sided with two Christian families wh…
Texas official calls police response to Uvalde shooting ‘abject failure’
By Kanishka Singh and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -The law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers was “an abject failure” in which a commander put the lives of officers over those of the children, Texa…
Classroom door in Uvalde school shooting was not locked, official says
(Reuters) – The classroom door in the Uvalde elementary school where 19 children and two teachers were killed in May was not locked even as police waited for a key, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said on Tuesday. There was no …
U.S. to propose rule to limit nicotine levels in cigarettes
(Reuters) -The Biden administration plans to propose a rule to establish a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and other finished tobacco products in an attempt to make them less addictive, the White House Budget Office said Tuesday, and cigarette mak…
Rugby league joins clampdown on transgender athletes in women’s sport
By Ian Ransom and Jill Gralow MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Rugby league banned transgender players from women’s international competition on Tuesday until further notice, following global swimming’s decision to restrict trans athletes’ participation at…
Swimming-FINA official hopes other sports follow transgender ruling
By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) – FINA’s decision to restrict transgender athletes in elite women’s swimming has provided a blueprint for other sports to follow in balancing fairness with inclusion, a top medical official at the global governing body…
Moscow fumes over Lithuania rail ban to Russian region
By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Russia warned Lithuania on Tuesday that it would face measures of a “serious negative impact” for blocking some shipments by rail to Moscow’s Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad, in its latest dispute over Western sancti…