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Peoria approves additional funds for Expo Gardens purchase as the land goes to auction
PEORIA, Ill. - The city of Peoria will have a little more money available to purchase Expo Gardens. City council on Tuesday night approved an additional $875,000 to buy the land, bringing the total av...
TJ Carson Sep 23, 2025
Australia's Optus appoints Kerry Schott to lead independent review into Triple Zero outage
(Reuters) -Optus, Australia's no. 2 telecom carrier, said on Wednesday it appointed Kerry Schott to lead an independent review into last week's technical failure that disrupted Triple Zero emergency c...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2025
Oil rises as US crude stockpile drop adds to sense of tighter supply
By Laila Kearney (Reuters) -Oil prices rose for a second day on Wednesday as an industry report showed U.S. crude inventories declined last week, adding to a sense in the market of tightening supplies...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2025
Police records and witness accounts complicate DHS narrative of fatal Chicago-area ICE shooting
By Renee Hickman and Brad Brooks CHICAGO (Reuters) -Police records and witness accounts from a Chicago suburb where a man was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent earlier this month...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2025
Japan's factory activity contracts further in September, PMI shows
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's manufacturing sector activity fell at the fastest pace in six months in September, driven by further declines in new orders, a private sector survey showed on Wednesday. The S...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2025
Who stopped the UN escalator? Likely Trump's videographer, says UN
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations believes it has solved the mystery of why an escalator abruptly stopped shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump stepped onto it on Tu...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2025
Carney says Canada-US trade talks will move to USMCA review process
By Ryan Patrick Jones TORONTO (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday that trade negotiations with the U.S. were ongoing, and a lot of the remaining issues would move to a forth...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2025
Black men wrongly linked to 1989 Boston murder get $150,000 settlement
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two Black men wrongly accused of the 1989 murder of a pregnant white woman in Boston have received a $150,000 settlement from the city in a high-profile case th...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2025
Dollar on defensive despite Powell's caution on further easing
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) -The dollar hovered near its weakest level in close to a week on Wednesday with traders expecting two more U.S. interest rate cuts this year, even after Federal Reser...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2025
Death toll climbs to 14 in eastern Taiwan after typhoon unleashes flood
HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) -Fourteen people have died in eastern Taiwan's Hualien county after a barrier lake in the mountains overflowed and sent a wall of water into a town during a typhoon, the isla...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2025
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