Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
White House revokes Trump order limiting climate change in federal reviews
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday revoked a Trump administration policy that aimed to prevent federal agencies from weighing climate change impacts in th...
Feb 18, 2021
Former U.S. Senator Dole says he has lung cancer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Republican Senator Bob Dole, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 1996, said on Thursday that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer and will undergo tre...
Feb 18, 2021
Democrats to introduce Biden immigration bill amid long odds to passage
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats will on Thursday formally introduce President Joe Biden's sweeping immigration bill in Congress, a measure that would provide a path to U.S. citizenship ...
Feb 18, 2021
‘I just ask God to help me’: Texas funeral home crushed by death as U.S. COVID toll nears 500,000
By Callaghan O'Hare and Maria Caspani HOUSTON (Reuters) - Sunday is traditionally a quiet day for Chuck Pryor's Houston funeral home, but on this Sunday in February, almost a year after the global pan...
Feb 18, 2021
Word of flight to Cancun from frozen Texas lands Senator Ted Cruz in hot water
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Ted Cruz faced widespread criticism on social media on Thursday after images went viral online that a journalist said showed him flying to a resort in Cancun while ...
Feb 18, 2021
Analysis: Exodus of Republican voters tired of Trump could push party further right
By Jason Lange and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surge of Republicans quitting the party to renounce Donald Trump after the deadly Capitol riot could hurt moderates in next year's primaries, ...
Feb 18, 2021
Texas ranchers scramble to keep animals alive in unusual cold
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Texas ranchers worked overtime to haul water and hay to cattle to keep them alive during a freak winter storm, but some cows have already succumbed to unusual icy t...
Feb 18, 2021
How the battle over redistricting in 2021 could decide control of the U.S. Congress
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - With the rancorous 2020 U.S. election now over, Democrats and Republicans are girding for another national political battle with enormous stakes: redistricting. The once-a-dec...
Feb 18, 2021
U.S.’s Blinken raises immigration issue in call with Guatemalan foreign minister
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Guatemalan Foreign Minister Pedro Brolo in a phone call on Wednesday that Washington was committed to addressing the causes of illega...
Feb 17, 2021
White House pushes back Biden trip to Michigan because of weather
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will travel to Michigan on Friday to visit a Pfizer Inc plant, postponing the trip by a day because of inclement weather, a White House official said. Biden ...
Feb 17, 2021
