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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A Black former elevator operator at Tesla Inc's flagship California assembly plant began testifying on Wednesday in a trial over how much the electric vehicle maker must...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil exceeded expectations in its formal job creation for February, with the labor ministry on Wednesday reporting a net result of 241,785 positions. That surpassed the expecte...

By Kristina Cooke and Mica Rosenberg (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bipartisan bill that would raise penalties on employers who violate child labor laws, in the wake of reporting...

CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Longtime Commonwealth Edison contract lobbyist Jay Doherty thought he was merely reminiscing and giving advice to a colleague and friend in a February 2019 meet...

By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) - Wall Street's top regulator on Wednesday asked lawmakers to approve a 12% boost to his agency's budget, citing burgeoning growth in financial markets and the rising ris...

PEORIA, Ill. – Peoria Fire officials are investigating yet another arson — this time to a home in South Peoria. Peoria firefighters went to a vacant home near Livingston and Grinnell aroun...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House urged China on Wednesday not to use a "normal" stopover in the United States by the Taiwan president as a pretext to increase aggressive activity against Taiwan....

PEORIA, Ill. – The Peoria City Council took time at Tuesday night’s meeting to honor and remember a former at-large member. Timothy J. Newlin passed away on Friday, March 24th at his home ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's federal public debt grew 1.51% in February from the month before, the Treasury said on Wednesday, marked by a further increase in issuance costs. The total debt stock rea...

By Jarrett Renshaw and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced presidential candidate Joe Biden to accept the Democratic Party's nomination inside a largely empty...