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Albemarle joins newly formed lithium industry body
(Reuters) - The International Lithium Association (ILiA) said it added Albemarle Corp as a founding core member to the newly formed industry association. Albemarle, the world's largest producer of lit...
Dec 22, 2021
Proud Boys member pleads guilty to conspiring to obstruct Congress on Jan. 6
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A member of the far-right Proud Boys group pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy and obstructing Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's election on...
Dec 22, 2021
China Telecom plans to continue some U.S. services after FCC revokes authorization
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China Telecom's U.S. unit said Wednesday it plans to continue providing some services in the United States in 2022 after a U.S. regulator revoked its authori...
Dec 22, 2021
AAA: More people will travel for Christmas, but Omicron may impact projections
AURORA, Ill. – AAA is anticipating more people traveling for the Christmas holiday than last year. The auto club projects 109,000,000 Americans traveling for the Christmas holiday, and 5,500,000...
Dec 22, 2021
Norway wealth fund divests from China’s Yunnan Baiyao over pangolins
OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's $1.4 trillion wealth fund has divested from Chinese pharmaceutical firm Yunnan Baiyao, saying the decision was because the company uses and sells body parts from pangolins, an...
Dec 22, 2021
Manchin’s West Virginia worst in the nation for power reliability
By Nichola Groom and Tim McLaughlin (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin has said one of the reasons he can't support President Joe Biden's sweeping climate and social spending bill was that its incen...
Dec 22, 2021
Biden: 250,000 treatment courses of Pfizer anti-viral due in January
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that 250,000 treatment courses of Pfizer's newly authorized COVID-19 anti-viral drug will be available in January from the 10 million courses the...
Dec 22, 2021
U.S. seven-day average of COVID-19 cases up 25% – CDC director
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The seven-day average of COVID-19 cases in the United States increased by 25% from the previous week to about 149,300 cases per day, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...
Dec 22, 2021
U.S. testing struggles to keep up with Omicron
By Carl O'Donnell and Ahmed Aboulenein NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surge in U.S. COVID-19 cases from the Omicron variant is overwhelming testing capacity in high-infection areas like New York Ci...
Dec 22, 2021
U.S. weapons exports decreased 21% to $138.2 billion in fiscal 2021
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of U.S. military equipment to foreign governments fell 21% to $138 billion in the latest fiscal year, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday, as the Biden administrat...
Dec 22, 2021
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