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California’s PG&E to avoid criminal charges in settlements over two major wildfires
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - California utility PG&E Corp has reached settlement agreements with district attorneys representing Northern California counties to avoid prosecution over two major wildf...
Apr 11, 2022
Man dead following kayaking accident near Havana
HAVANA, Ill. – One person is dead after high winds caused a kayak to overturn in Mason County not far from Havana. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says a 27-year-old male kayaker fr...
Apr 11, 2022
Bitcoin falls 5.3% to $39,881
(Reuters) - Bitcoin dropped 5.3% to $39,881.02 at on Monday, down $2,231.58 from its previous close. Bitcoin, the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is down 17.3% from the year's high of $...
Apr 11, 2022
New York pension leaders back calls for less fossil fuel financing
(Reuters) - New York State pension officials on Monday said they will support shareholder resolutions filed at major banks seeking quick cuts to the financing of new fossil fuel development. The resol...
Apr 11, 2022
Factbox-New U.S. state laws directed at transgender youth
By Maria Caspani (Reuters) - Conservative lawmakers have passed a flurry of bills this year directed at transgender youth, including measures that bar classroom discussion of gender identity, block ac...
Apr 11, 2022
U.S. seeks to resume enforcing federal employee vaccine mandate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Monday asked a federal appeals court to allow the Biden administration to resume enforcing a federal employee vaccine mandate that had been blocke...
Apr 11, 2022
New mechanisms needed for debt stress as poor countries hit by surging prices -IMF
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sharply higher global food and energy prices due to the war in Ukraine are hitting poor countries, and better mechanisms for dealing with sovereign debt stress ...
Apr 11, 2022
Hugh Laurie brings Agatha Christie murder-mystery to TV
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - British actor Hugh Laurie, best known for playing an eccentric doctor in the TV series "House", brings what he says is his favourite Agatha Christie novel to the sc...
Apr 11, 2022
Child charged with murder, arson won’t be in court during trial: Judge
EUREKA, Ill. – The then-nine-year-old boy arrested in 2019 for allegedly setting a fire that killed five people at a trailer park in Goodfield will not have to be in the courtroom when his trial...
Apr 11, 2022
Luis Giusti ousted from Citgo Petroleum’s board of directors
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Oil executive Luis Giusti Lugo was removed from the board of directors of Houston-based refiner Citgo Petroleum, the chief of the company's supervisory body said on Monday. "Citgo ...
Apr 11, 2022
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