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Pritzker blames local officials for continued COVID-19 mitigations
CHICAGO, Ill. – It remains not the most popular statement Illinois Governor JB Pritzker will ever make, but Pritzker is again urging residents to “mask up.” Pritzker says while the s...
Will Stevenson Sep 16, 2021
TSA bolsters airport security ahead of pro-Trump rally at U.S. Capitol
By David Shepardson and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Travelers arriving at the airport nearest Washington, D.C., will face increased security in the run-up to a planned Saturday rally supporting p...
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Russia mulls new extraction tax and higher profit tax for metals firms -sources
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's finance ministry proposed setting a mineral extraction tax (MET) linked to global prices for producers of iron ore, coking coal and fertilisers, as well as ore mined by Nor...
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Biden says Republican governors are undermining COVID safety response
By Steve Holland (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday directed his ire at the governors of Florida and Texas, accusing the Republican leaders of going to extra lengths to "undermine the li...
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Colorado’s Polis weds longtime partner in first same-sex marriage of U.S. governor
(Reuters) - Colorado Governor Jared Polis, the nation's first openly gay man to be elected governor, has tied the knot with his partner of 18 years Marlon Reis in a traditional Jewish ceremony attende...
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Biden says he expects Congress to deliver spending, infrastructure bills
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday expressed confidence that Congress will deliver both an infrastructure and supplementary spending bills to his desk that would infuse trillions of doll...
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Hungry in overwhelmed Texas town, migrants slip back into Mexico for food
By Alexandra Ulmer CIUDAD ACUA, MEXICO (Reuters) - Ernesto, a 31-year-old Haitian migrant, waded knee-deep through the Rio Grande river that separates the United States and Mexico. He wasn't heading t...
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Facebook shuts down network linked to German anti-COVID group, launches rules on ‘social harms’
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook has removed a network of accounts linked to an anti-COVID restrictions movement in Germany as it announced a new crackdown on coordinated campaigns of real ...
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Exclusive-Warburg Pincus seeks $16 billion for private equity fund -sources
By Chibuike Oguh (Reuters) - Warburg Pincus LLC is seeking to raise $16 billion from investors for its latest flagship global private equity fund, its biggest ever, according to people familiar with t...
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Brush fire on I-74 being investigated
PEORIA, Ill. – Peoria Fire officials say a late-morning brush fire that caused some problems on Interstate 74 may be intentional. The brush fire was first reported around 10:30 A.M. Thursday on ...
Will Stevenson Sep 16, 2021

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