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FTX signs deal with option to buy BlockFi for up to $240 million
(Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto exchange has signed a deal with an option to buy embattled crypto lender BlockFi for up to $240 million, BlockFi Chief Executive Zac Prince said on Friday. F...
Syndicated Content Jul 01, 2022

Gun store break-in nets federal prison time
PEORIA, Ill. – The Peoria man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to breaking in to a local gun shop will go to federal prison for most of the next five years. The U.S. Attorney’s office ...
Will Stevenson Jul 01, 2022
China’s Great Wall shelves $1 billion India investment plan -sources
By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) - China's Great Wall Motor has shelved plans to invest $1 billion in India and fired all employees of its local unit after failing to obtain regulatory approvals, thr...
Syndicated Content Jul 01, 2022

Man gets federal prison sentence for series of robberies, jail escape
PEORIA, Ill. – A Mechanicsburg man who robbed several businesses, ending with one in Elmwood, will go to federal prison for the better part of 12 years for his crimes. The U.S. Attorney’s ...
Will Stevenson Jul 01, 2022
Chile plans to raise copper mining royalties and reform tax system
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile's finance minister, Mario Marcel, on Friday introduced a tax reform bill that increases copper mining royalties on companies that produce more than 50,000 tonnes a year and r...
Syndicated Content Jul 01, 2022
Boeing disappointed after China’s top three airlines buy 300 Airbus planes
(Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Friday "it is disappointing that geopolitical differences continue to constrain U.S. aircraft exports" while responding to China's three biggest state-owned airlines buyi...
Syndicated Content Jul 01, 2022
Biden: Not enough Senate votes to change filibuster for abortion rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden told a group of Democratic U.S. governors on Friday there were not enough votes in the Senate to scrap the filibuster to protect abortion rights after the Sup...
Syndicated Content Jul 01, 2022
Abortion drug maker says Mississippi can’t ban pill despite Supreme Court ruling
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -The maker of a drug used in medication abortions has told a federal judge that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling eliminating the nationwide right to abortion does no...
Syndicated Content Jul 01, 2022
Explainer-How the conservative Supreme Court is reshaping U.S. law
By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's most consequential term in decades, with blockbuster rulings on abortion, guns, religion and climate change policy, ...
Syndicated Content Jul 01, 2022
New York may ban concealed guns in many places, including Times Square
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York lawmakers began voting on Friday on revamped gun laws that would ban guns from a long list of "sensitive places," including Times Square, after the U.S....
Syndicated Content Jul 01, 2022
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