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Vice President Harris urges Black Americans ‘let’s not let COVID get us”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris urged Black Americans on Wednesday to get the coronavirus vaccine as studies show Blacks and Hispanics are lagging in COVID-19 vaccinations. "L...
Feb 24, 2021
U.S. Postal chief commits to 10% of new delivery vehicles as electric vehicles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told lawmakers on Wednesday that the Postal Service had committed to buying 10% electric vehicles as part of its multibillion-dollar plan to ...
Feb 24, 2021
Sixth director resigns from Texas power grid operator ERCOT: chair
(Reuters) - A sixth member of the board of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state's power grid operator, resigned in the wake of a massive failure of the state's power network. R...
Feb 24, 2021
Biden administration to distribute more than 25 million masks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration will deliver more than 25 million masks to community health centers, food pantries and soup kitchens from March through May as part of its battle agains...
Feb 24, 2021
Derailed BNSF fuel train fire in Texas nearly extinguished
(Reuters) - A BNSF Railway Company train carrying products including coal and gasoline to Houston in Texas was still burning on Wednesday, a day after it collided with a truck near Cameron, causing an...
Feb 24, 2021
NRA sues New York attorney general, says she wants to destroy ‘political enemy’
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Rifle Association filed a countersuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, saying she lacks authority to invoke state laws governing n...
Feb 24, 2021
Economic pain from pandemic upends the lives of restaurant owners, entertainers
By Vanessa Johnston FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (Reuters) - The reality has not yet sunk in for Pepe Diaz that the beloved deli he ran with his brother for more than 30 years is permanently shut. "The camarad...
Feb 24, 2021
U.S. to admit asylum seekers from hard-hit camp at Texas border
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States this week will begin processing people held in the Matamoros migrant camp at the Texas border for entry into the country after the area was hit hard by severe ...
Feb 24, 2021
Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine effective, safe: FDA staff
(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson's one-shot COVID-19 vaccine appeared safe and effective in trials, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff said in documents published on Wednesday, paving the way ...
Feb 24, 2021
Analysis: Urban states come out ahead, rural states get less in Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill
By Andy Sullivan and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package now making its way through the U.S. Congress would provide $350 billion to help pandemic-hit state and...
Feb 24, 2021
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