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Disney tops Netflix in streaming subscribers, raises prices for ad-free options
By Lisa Richwine and Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Walt Disney Co edged past Netflix Inc with a total of 221 million streaming subscribers at the end of the most recent quarter and announced...
Aug 10, 2022
Cowboy cosplayers recreate the Wild West, compete with vintage guns
By Matt McKnight RENTON, Wash. (Reuters) - Passers-by at the Renton Fish and Game Club in Washington state on Saturday could be forgiven for thinking they had time-traveled to the late-1800s Wild West...
Aug 10, 2022
Analysis – Softer inflation ‘huge relief’ for battered investors in U.S. stocks and bonds
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) - Softer than expected U.S. inflation data buoyed investors' faith that twin rebounds in stocks and bonds will persist in a year of deep lo...
Aug 10, 2022
New York City drivers could face up to $23 a day congestion charge
By David Shepardson (Reuters) - New York City could introduce a traffic congestion charge of up to $23 a day late next year, which a study released on Wednesday projected would reduce the number of ca...
Aug 10, 2022
What’s in a name? Illinois hopes to make invasive carp fish more palatable
(Reuters) - Illinois is rebranding an invasive carp in the hopes of encouraging people to eat it - and solving a decades-old issue that has been threatening the ecosystem of the U.S. state's waterways...
Aug 10, 2022
Coca-Cola bottler to detail costs of exiting Russia
By Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co's bottler Coca Cola HBC AG will on Thursday detail the cost of stopping production and sales of Coke in Russia, a goal that has taken five months ...
Aug 10, 2022
Social media video shows Bartonville firefighter using N-word
BARTONVILLE, Ill. – The Bartonville Fire Department is under fire again — this time, after a years-old video resurfaced on social media allegedly showing the assistant chief using a racial...
Aug 10, 2022
Colombia green groups try again to ban fracking, hope fourth time’s the charm
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian lawmakers, the environment minister and environmental campaigners on Wednesday proposed a bill to congress that would ban fracking, hoping it would pass ...
Aug 10, 2022
PPD: Officer uninjured, driver hospitalized after crash with patrol car
PEORIA, Ill. — We’re learning more about a traffic crash that involved a Peoria Police officer. PPD says it happened just after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of West McClure Ave...
Aug 10, 2022
Fed’s Kashkari: Far from victory on inflation, sees sharp rate hikes ahead
(Reuters) - Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari on Wednesday said that he continues to believe that the U.S. central bank will need to raise its policy rate to 3.9% by year-end an...
Aug 10, 2022
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