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Hunger rose for U.S. minorities, children in 2020, despite federal pandemic aid
By Christopher Walljasper CHICAGO (Reuters) - The number of Hispanic and Black families without enough to eat climbed in 2020, the U.S. government said on Wednesday, as the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered...
Sep 08, 2021
Leon Black says accuser, eyeing payday, made up Jeffrey Epstein claims
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman suing former Apollo Global Management Inc Chief Executive Leon Black for sexual abuse and defamation made up "demonstrably false" new accusations linki...
Sep 08, 2021
Three charged with stealing identities of Florida condo collapse victims
(Reuters) - A man and two women were arrested and charged with stealing the identities of seven victims of the Surfside condominium collapse near Miami Beach this summer and attempting to obtain credi...
Sep 08, 2021
U.S. House panel to vote on pre-school, child care and tuition-free community college
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Publicly funded pre-school, child care subsidies and two years of tuition-free community college are on the agenda this week, when a U.S. House of Representati...
Sep 08, 2021
Some Afghans evacuated from Kabul struggle to find help in U.S.
By Merdie Nzanga ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - After Fahima, 30, stepped off a plane at Dulles international airport in Virginia on Aug. 26th, she asked an immigration official what would happen to her ...
Sep 08, 2021
Go-to lawyer for U.S. Capitol riot defendants re-emerges after illness
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A lawyer who disappeared from public view while representing 17 defendants facing charges related to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot reemerged on Wednesday, telling a j...
Sep 08, 2021
U.S. Capitol Police says ‘robust security’ planned for Sept 18 rally
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Capitol Police on Wednesday said it is enacting strong security measures ahead of a Sept. 18 rally in which supporters of former President Donald Trump int...
Sep 08, 2021
Yellen urges states to speed up rental assistance funds, avert evictions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday urged state and local governments to act swiftly to expedite emergency rental assistance funds to renters and landlords in need...
Sep 08, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court to resume in-person oral arguments
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started when its new session begins in October, the na...
Sep 08, 2021
U.S. job openings rise to record 10.9 million in July
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job openings raced to a new record high in July, suggesting that last month's sharp slowdown in hiring was due to employers being unable to find workers rather than weak de...
Sep 08, 2021
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