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Amazon faces more than slowing sales growth: it needs more warehouses
By Jeffrey Dastin and Danielle Kaye (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc needs to spend billions of dollars to expand its warehouse and delivery system, adding pressure to its shares which dropped 7% on Friday ...
Jul 30, 2021
White House says average number of people getting COVID-19 vaccination shots is up 30%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday the average number of people getting COVID-19 vaccination shots is up 30% at a time when the Delta...
Jul 30, 2021
New Peoria Police Chief sworn in
PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria’s new Chief of Police, Eric Echevarria, has officially been sworn in. Echevarria has been a law enforcement professional for over 20 years for the city of Elgin, Illi...
Jul 30, 2021
Worker sued Lyondell in May over safety at Texas plant that killed two
By Liz Hampton (Reuters) - A contractor sued LyondellBasell Industries in May, alleging lax safety measures led to a workplace accident at the same plant that leaked chemicals this week, killing two c...
Jul 30, 2021
U.S. commuters uneasy as Delta variant threatens return to workplaces
By Maria Caspani, Rich McKay, Brendan O'Brien and Tim Reid NEW YORK/ATLANTA (Reuters) - The fast-spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus is worrying some U.S. commuters who are already back on crow...
Jul 30, 2021
Johnson & Johnson not liable for Illinois woman’s death in talc case
By Tom Hals and Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - An Illinois jury on Friday refused to hold Johnson & Johnson liable for a woman's death from ovarian cancer, which her family blamed on decades of using it...
Jul 30, 2021
Hollywood agency slams Disney in heated dispute over Johansson’s ‘Black Widow’
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies on Friday hit out at the Disney movie studio in an escalating public dispute over claims by Scarlett Johansson that she had lost mone...
Jul 30, 2021
Majority of COVID-19 cases at large public events were among vaccinated -U.S. CDC study
(Reuters) - A new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that three-quarters of individuals who became infected with COVID-19 at public events in a Massachusetts county ha...
Jul 30, 2021
Florida Gov. DeSantis to issue order giving parents choice to mask children in school
(Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Friday he plans to issue an executive order instructing the state's departments of education and health to write rules giving parents the right to dec...
Jul 30, 2021
U.S. Justice Dept says IRS must provide former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to hand over former President Donald Trump's tax returns to a House of Representativ...
Jul 30, 2021
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