Biden acts to protect workers as temperatures soar in record-setting July
Washington DC/Phoenix, USReuters US President Joe Biden took steps to protect workers from extreme heat and met with the mayors of sweltering cities Phoenix and San Antonio on Thursday as an intensifying heat wave put half of Americans under heat watches and warnings. With this July set to become the hottest on record globally, temperatures and […]
Heatwaves set records, trigger health warnings in US and Europe
New York, USReuters Heatwaves intensified across southern and eastern Europe, Asia, and much of the United States on Tuesday as the World Meteorological Organization warned of an increased risk of deaths due to the extreme weather. Across the United States, Americans grappled with a medley of extreme weather, from blazing heat to wildfire smoke-choked air […]
Ahead of US midterms, partisan mailer poses as Catholic newspaper in Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona, USAP Nicole Leonardi initially thought a new newspaper had arrived in her mailbox this week. But a closer look at the “Arizona Catholic Tribune” revealed a different story. While it had all the attributes of a traditional print newspaper, including a tagline that read “Real data. Real value. Real news,” the pledge did […]
Forced relocation or safe haven?: US cities push the homeless to live in tent camps
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how some US cities tackling a surge of street homelessness are offering official camps while penalising people sleeping in public elsewhere…
US Catholic priest’s new assignment: Helping those he invalidly baptised
Phoenix, Arizona, USAP Families came one by one to the baptismal font in a Phoenix church where Rev Andrés Arango, whose baptisms up until last summer are presumed to be invalid, poured holy water over the heads of a dozen people in a do-over of the Catholic ritual. The ceremony Thursday evening represented a new assignment […]
In the US, King family rally in Arizona for voting bills for MLK Day
Phoenix, Arizona, USAP As the nation prepares to mark the birthday of Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, some members of his family are spending it in conservative-leaning Arizona to mobilise support for languishing federal voting rights legislation. Martin Luther King III; his wife, Arndrea Waters King; and their daughter Yolanda Renee King, 13, took part […]