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Proud Boys leader freed from Washington jail, served time for burning banner at Black church
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - A leader of the right-wing Proud Boys group, Enrique Tarrio, was released from jail on Friday after serving four months and a week for burning a Black Lives Matter banner at a...
Jan 14, 2022
Global crypto funds post sharp gains in 2021 -BarclayHedge
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global cryptocurrency funds racked up steep gains last year after most digital currencies soared in price, led by bitcoin and ether amid strong institu...
Jan 14, 2022
GM workers at Mexico plant will vote on union Feb 1-2, govt says
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government said on Friday that a trade union vote at the General Motors Co plant in the central city of Silao will be held on Feb. 1-2 after workers voted last year to...
Jan 14, 2022
Nearly 90% of big US meat plants had COVID-19 cases in pandemic’s first year – data
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - Nearly 90% of processing plants owned by five big U.S. meat companies had COVID-19 cases in 2020 and early 2021, a Reuters analysis of public data found, as a congressional...
Jan 14, 2022
Fed scrambled to make sense of Trump’s 2016 election, transcripts show
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The election of Donald Trump threw Federal Reserve officials into a scramble to determine what it meant for the American economy, the world, and the U.S. cen...
Jan 14, 2022
Boeing engineer who led development 737 MAX to retire -company memo
By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) -Boeing Co executive Michael Teal, a top engineer on its 777X program who also oversaw technical development of the 737 MAX program, is set to retire, according to...
Jan 14, 2022
U.S. grocery shortages deepen as pandemic dries supplies
By Siddharth Cavale and Christopher Walljasper (Reuters) - High demand for groceries combined with soaring freight costs and Omicron-related labor shortages are creating a new round of backlogs at pro...
Jan 14, 2022
Milk for dollars helps Venezuela’s ranchers weather economic woes
By Deisy Buitrago BARINAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Cattle ranchers in Barinas state, one of Venezuela's main agricultural regions, milk their herds in the small hours each morning before selling the mil...
Jan 14, 2022
Halkbank prosecution put on hold pending U.S. Supreme Court appeal
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court put the federal government's prosecution of Turkish state-owned lender Halkbank for allegedly helping Iran evade American sanctions on hol...
Jan 14, 2022
Republican U.S. Rep Katko, who voted to impeach Trump, will not seek re-election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative John Katko, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump on a charge of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Cap...
Jan 14, 2022
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