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Nikola Corp agrees to pay $125 million to settle SEC charges of defrauding investors
By Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nikola Corp has agreed to pay $125 million to settle civil charges that it defrauded investors by misleading them about its products, technical advancements an...
Dec 21, 2021
Dozens test positive for COVID at Peoria Co. Jail
PEORIA, Ill. — Over 50 inmates and jail staff have tested positive in a COVID outbreak at the Peoria County Jail. The Peoria County Sheriff’s Office told news partner 25 News that 41 inmat...
Dec 21, 2021
U.S. meat plants relaxed some COVID-19 safety protocols after outbreaks – unions
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, last year assigned a team of dedicated employees to enforce social distancing and sanitize surfaces at a South ...
Dec 21, 2021
U.S. travelers stay closer to home as Omicron looms
By Danielle Kaye NEW YORK (Reuters) - Carla Benton, a Chicago-based book copy editor, was preparing for a Christmas trip to Europe when the Omicron variant of the coronavirus began to make headlines i...
Dec 21, 2021
U.S. gives seven global aid groups $580 million for COVID – Blinken
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is providing the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund and five other global aid groups an additional $580 million to fight COVID-19, U...
Dec 21, 2021
ING to quit French retail banking market
PARIS (Reuters) - Dutch financial services company ING will quit the French retail banking business, it said on Tuesday, in a move that could affect 460 employees. ING added that talks were continuing...
Dec 21, 2021
Norway wealth fund will pressure, not divest from high gas emitters
By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's $1.4 trillion wealth fund, the world's largest, will not divest from companies that are major emitters of greenhouse gases to meet plans to make its investm...
Dec 21, 2021
Exclusive: Qatar targets $10 billion of investments in U.S. ports -sources
By Jonathan Saul, Marwa Rashad and Davide Barbuscia LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar plans to invest at least $10 billion in U.S. ports and has approached international banks for financing help, three f...
Dec 21, 2021
U.S. cities try new way to help the poor: give them money
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, dozens of U.S. cities are deploying a new tool in their war on poverty: cash. At least 16 cities and counties are handing o...
Dec 21, 2021
Tech startup funding to Blacks, Latinos ticks up in Miami after investor influx
By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND (Reuters) - Black and Hispanic tech startup funding ticked up in Florida and Georgia this year, following an influx of investors fleeing California and efforts by some ventu...
Dec 21, 2021
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