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White House to meet oil industry over Hurricane Ian price-gouging concerns
By Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top White House officials will meet Friday with oil executives to discuss Hurricane Ian and low gasoline inventories as President Joe Biden warns the industry...
Sep 30, 2022
State: Zero counties at ‘high’ spread; new cases down again
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois Department of Public Health says there is continued improvement statewide when it comes to COVID-19. State officials say as of Friday, 10,945 new cases of the vi...
Sep 30, 2022
Trump is accused of stonewalling rape accuser to avoid Oct. 19 deposition
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The writer suing Donald Trump for defamation after he denied having raped her in the mid-1990s accused the former U.S. president of stonewalling and trying to ...
Sep 30, 2022
Hurricane Ian makes landfall in South Carolina- U.S. NHC
(Reuters) - The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) on Friday said that Hurricane Ian has made landfall in South Carolina. The hurricane is located about 55 miles (90 km) northeast of Charleston, Sou...
Sep 30, 2022
White House official says details on AI chip export rule coming soon
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - The Biden administration could shed more light on a possible new rule for exporting high-performance artificial intelligence chips to China "relatively soon," a White Hou...
Sep 30, 2022
IRS to deploy 400 staff to aid federal response to Hurricane Ian -Treasury
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service is deploying 400 employees to assist with the federal emergency response to Hurricane Ian, including call center services, search an...
Sep 30, 2022
United Airlines will halt service at New York’s JFK airport
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -United Airlines said on Friday it will suspend service in late October to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK). Earlier this month, United had threatened ...
Sep 30, 2022
Biden: Destruction from Hurricane Ian likely to be among the worst in U.S. history
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Friday said the destruction in Florida from Hurricane Ian is likely to be among the worst in U.S. history and he has directed every possible action be tak...
Sep 30, 2022
Grand jury files charges after Peoria Speedway brawl injures young boy
PEORIA, Ill. – A Bureau County man has been charged by a grand jury in Peoria with punching a young boy during a larger brawl at the Peoria Speedway in late-July. Anthony Hickman, 27, of Princet...
Sep 30, 2022
Barkin: Risk of inflation ‘festering’ worse than of Fed overdoing rate increases
WOODBRIDGE, Va. (Reuters) - "Festering" inflation remains a bigger threat to the economy than the risks of Federal Reserve rate hikes going too far and causing unnecessary damage in the effort to cont...
Sep 30, 2022
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