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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Thursday said American cities may pursue class-action claims accusing eight large banks of driving up interest rates they paid on a pop...

By Daina Beth Solomon and Ted Hesson MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. border authorities encountered more than 142,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in the first half of September, according to data ...

By Mrinalika Roy and Arathy Somasekhar (Reuters) -Magellan Midstream Partners' unitholders on Thursday voted in favour of its sale to larger rival ONEOK Inc for $18.8 billion, creating one of the larg...

By Milana Vinn and Anirban Sen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new mergers and acquisitions advisory firm launched last year by former Centerview Partners dealmakers has scored a big win by advising Cisco Syst...

By Rich McKay (Reuters) - Disbarred South Carolina attorney Richard "Alex" Murdaugh, who was convicted of murdering his wife and son, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to nearly two dozen ba...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Drought conditions have returned to central Illinois. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report lists all of Tazewell and Woodford Counties in "moderate" drought. Most of Peoria C...

By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal's government said on Thursday that banks must discount the benchmark six-month Euribor rate by 30% when calculating mortgage interest rates if asked to d...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted to block consideration of a sweeping military funding bill for the fiscal year beginning on Oct. 1, further clouding the outl...

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - The latest leg lower in U.S. stock prices has put them in a danger zone that could trigger so-called "mechanical selling" pressure and accelerate a downside m...

By Ricardo Moraes RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Luis Cassiano climbs a ladder and gently places small bundles of plants on a tin rooftop in a poor Rio de Janeiro neighborhood. The 53-year-old Brazilian e...