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Car hits Pekin restaurant
PEKIN, Ill. – A business in Pekin is closed at least temporarily after a car backed in to the building. Pekin Fire says damage appears to be so far minimal to the Fast Dragon Buffet on Court Str...
May 05, 2023
Fire breaks out at Shell Deer Park, Texas chemical plant -sources
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A fire broke out in an olefins unit on Friday at Shell Plc's Deer Park, Texas chemical plant, said five people familiar with plant operations. A large column of black smoke could b...
May 05, 2023
Binance faces US probe of possible Russian sanctions violations – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Binance Holdings was illegally used to let Russians skirt U.S. sanctions and move money through the cryptocurrency exchange, Bloomberg N...
May 05, 2023
Western Digital to bring services back online soon after security breach
(Reuters) - Western Digital Corp said on Friday it had restored My Cloud services and expects customer access to its online store to be normalized in the week of May 15, more than a month after the da...
May 05, 2023
Fed’s Bullard: ‘Open mind’ on June meeting, though rates still may need to rise
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Friday he was ready to keep an "open mind" about whether to raise rates or hold them steady at the ...
May 05, 2023
U.S. to finalize rule by May 11 to limit asylum access at Mexico border
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. will finalize by May 11 a new regulation that will deny asylum to many migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, Homeland Security Secret...
May 05, 2023
AI pioneer says its threat to world may be ‘more urgent’ than climate change
By Martin Coulter LONDON (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence could pose a "more urgent" threat to humanity than climate change, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton told Reuters in an interview on Friday. Geoff...
May 05, 2023
DeSantis signs bill allowing Florida board to cancel Disney deals
By Joseph Ax and Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a bill into law that gives a new board he controls the power to void development agreements its predecessor body...
May 05, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court halts execution of Oklahoma inmate Glossip
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday halted the execution of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, whose case has drawn support from the state's Republican attorney general aft...
May 05, 2023
St. Louis Fed’s Bullard says rate increase this week was good ‘next step’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The quarter point rate increase approved by the Federal Reserve this week was "a good next step" in the fight against inflation, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said on Fr...
May 05, 2023
Peoria, IL, USA
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