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Bitcoin rises 5.5% to $19,897
(Reuters) - Bitcoin rose 5.54% to $19,897 at 22:13 GMT on Friday, adding $1,044 to its previous close. Bitcoin, the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is up 20.6% from the year's low of $1...
Jan 13, 2023
Multi-million dollar renovations planned for Pekin High School
PEKIN, Ill. – Numerous projects are being planned for this summer at Pekin High School. Superintendent Danielle Owens recently laid out what work will be done at the school. Owens say the bigges...
Jan 13, 2023
Pritzker signs reproductive rights expansion
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law Friday expanding access to abortion and other reproductive health care services. House Bill 4664, passed Tuesday dur...
Jan 13, 2023
BMW planning major investment in Mexico, minister says
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - German carmaker BMW is planning a new major investment in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, where the company already has a plant, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo ...
Jan 13, 2023
Justice Department official cleared to oversee Google probes -source
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department's top antitrust official recently won approval from the department to oversee investigations involving Google parent Alphabet Inc, a p...
Jan 13, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court to hear religious bias claim against Postal Service
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal by an evangelical Christian former mail carrier in Pennsylvania who accused the U.S. Postal Service of religious b...
Jan 13, 2023
U.S. says Pfizer’s bivalent COVID shot may be linked to stroke in older adults
(Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech's updated COVID-19 shot could be linked to a type of brain stroke in older adults, according to preliminary data analyzed by U.S. heal...
Jan 13, 2023
Brazil should work with other countries to curb illegal gold trade, says mining lobby
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's mining lobby group asked the country's foreign ministry to work with other governments to improve tactics used to combat the illegal gold trade, it said on Friday. ...
Jan 13, 2023
EU asks member states for proposals on how to ease state aid rules
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission on Friday asked member states for input by Jan. 25 on proposals to ease state aid rules, as the bloc considers measures to prevent the United States from l...
Jan 13, 2023
Lisa Marie Presley to be laid to rest at Graceland
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Lisa Marie Presley will be laid to rest at Graceland, the Memphis mansion she inherited from her father Elvis Presley, the "King of Rock 'n' Roll," a representative for ...
Jan 13, 2023
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