U.S. Senator Warren proposes executive action on women of color pay gap
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, on Friday proposed a plan to help women of color get better wages and a path to the leadership positions they have been denied.
More quakes could hit California as residents mop up
Residents were assessing the damage and cleaning up the mess on Friday left by the strongest earthquake to hit Southern California in 25 years, with quaking felt by more than 20 million people from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
Three stabbed in scuffle at 4th of July celebration in Chicago
Three people were stabbed and seriously injured during a fight at an Independence Day fireworks show in Chicago on Thursday and more than a dozen more were injured as many of the crowd fled the scene, police and media reports said early Friday.
Coal baron Cline among seven dead in Bahamas helicopter crash: media
Coal tycoon and self-made billionaire Christopher Cline, 61, was among seven people who died in a helicopter crash on Thursday in the Bahamas, the Register-Herald of West Virginia reported, citing friends of Cline.
After brutal spring floods, U.S. farmers face big losses
DARKE COUNTY, Ohio (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The planting season ended more than a month ago, but much of 39-year-old Greg McGlinch’s 450-acre farm in Darke County, Ohio, is either under water or still saturated from record spring rains.
Defying critics, Trump salutes military in pomp-filled July 4 celebration
With U.S. fighter jets flying overhead, President Donald Trump praised the military and reveled in a show of pomp and patriotism on Thursday in a celebration of Independence Day that critics accused him of turning into a political event.
Big quake rattles area of 20 million people in California; no one killed
A powerful earthquake jolted Southern California on Thursday, touching off fires, damaging buildings and forcing the evacuation of a hospital in a desert town northeast of Los Angeles, but there were only minor injuries.
With pomp and flyovers, Trump embraces military in July 4 salute
With U.S. fighter jets flying overhead, President Donald Trump praised the military and urged young people to join the armed forces on Thursday in a celebration of Independence Day that critics accused him of turning into a political event.
Big quake rumbles across Southern California, some damage northeast of Los Angeles
A powerful earthquake jolted Southern California on Thursday, touching off fires and damaging buildings in a desert town northeast of Los Angeles, but authorities said there were only minor injuries.
With tanks and flyovers, Trump celebrates military in July 4 salute
President Donald Trump will praise service members in the U.S. military on Thursday in an Independence Day speech against a backdrop of tanks and jet flyovers that critics said would politicize a popular national holiday.
