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Harvard names new president, first Black woman to hold top job
BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University on Thursday named Claudine Gay, the school's dean of Faculty Arts and Sciences, as its 30th president, making her the first Black person and only second woman to ...
Dec 15, 2022
Pritzker celebrates passage of state Workers Rights Constitutional Amendment
CHICAGO, Ill. – Illinois Democrats are taking another victory lap connected to the 2022 election. Governor JB Pritzker and union leaders Thursday celebrated the passage of the Workers Rights Ame...
Dec 15, 2022
EVs and crypto mining seen as emerging risks for U.S. power reliability
By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - The adoption of electric vehicles and rise of cryptocurrency mining pose emerging challenges to U.S. power reliability in upcoming years, the North American Elect...
Dec 15, 2022
National Archives releases documents related to JFK assassination
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. National Archives on Thursday released thousands of documents related to the 1963 assassination of then-President John F. Kennedy shortly after President Joe Biden issue...
Dec 15, 2022
U.S. lawmakers want Buttigieg to speed deployment of connected vehicles
(Reuters) - The Democratic chairman and the top Republican on the House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee urged the Biden administration to take an active role in helping ...
Dec 15, 2022
Argentina inflation cools more than expected in November
By Walter Bianchi and Horacio Soria BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's monthly inflation rate slowed to 4.9% in November, undershooting forecasts, a silver lining for the South American country's em...
Dec 15, 2022
Direct ChassisLink changes hands in $3.6 billion deal-sources
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A consortium comprising a Singapore sovereign wealth fund, a Canadian pension fund and a British investment manager has acquired chassis lessor Direct ChassisLink from buyout firm...
Dec 15, 2022
Puerto Rico independence vote bill passes U.S. House
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Puerto Rico's movement for greater self-government got a boost on Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives, which passed a bill for a referendum on three...
Dec 15, 2022
Factbox-Chinese companies added to U.S. entity list
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday added Chinese memory chipmaker YMTC and 21 "major" Chinese players in the artificial intelligence chip sector to a trade blacklist, broadeni...
Dec 15, 2022
Colombia to hike minimum monthly wage by 16%
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's minimum wage will increase by 16% in 2023, President Gustavo Petro said on Thursday, higher than the previous wage hike. The minimum wage will rise to 1.16 million pesos ...
Dec 15, 2022
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