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Jack Ma, Trump and Xi: How Chinese billionaire flew close to the sun
By Julie Zhu and Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - This was supposed to be Jack Ma's finest hour: a year ago to the day, his Ant Group was meant to go public in a $37 billion blaze of glory. Instead Beiji...
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ICC relieves students of $1.1 million in debt
EAST PEORIA, Ill. – Illinois Central College is using COVID-19 relief money to eliminate $1.1 million in student debt. The college says student accounts having outstanding balances for tuition, ...
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Virginia loss highlights some Democrats’ uncertainty over Biden strategy
By Trevor Hunnicutt, Jarrett Renshaw and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The political rebuke voters delivered to Democrats in Virginia has not given the White House second thoughts about Preside...
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Carlyle bids $2.1 billion for Australia’s Link
(Reuters) - Australia's Link Administration on Friday said private equity firm Carlyle made a A$2.81 billion ($2.08 billion) bid for the shareholder registry firm. The proposal includes a A$3 per shar...
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Health Department says new COVID cases trending upward, but may not be as bad as last year
PEORIA, Ill. – Local health officials are concerned about what they see as another uptick in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Tri-County area, after weeks where increases weren’t as high. P...
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U.S. Justice Dept sues Texas over law curbing voting
By Sarah N. Lynch and Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Texas on Thursday over a state law that places strict curbs on voting by mail, in the latest effort by th...
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Delta bookings soar in six weeks after U.S. move to open borders
(Reuters) - Delta Air Lines has seen a 450% surge in international bookings in the six weeks since Sept. 20 when the United States said it would reopen for fully vaccinated visitors. The White House h...
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More U.S. workers bought their employers’ stock in pandemic- study
By Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK (Reuters) - More U.S. workers bought shares in their companies through employee stock purchase plans during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study from Rutgers Univer...
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Monte dei Paschi CEO says it is better to hurry with capital raising
By Valentina Za MILAN (Reuters) - The Italian government should hasten plans to help Monte dei Paschi raise cash on the market, the CEO of the Tuscan bank said, after the government failed to clinch a...
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Square quarterly profit jumps on bitcoin boost
(Reuters) - Square Inc reported a nearly 60% rise in third-quarter gross profit on Thursday, fueled by a jump in bitcoin transactions on its peer-to-peer payment service Cash App. The payments firm, w...
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