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7 years after passage, Illinois’ first in string of recent abortion protections gets day in court
ROCKFORD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - In 2016 - before Donald Trump's presidency paved the way for the eventual overturning of Roe v. Wade - Democrats in Illinois passed what would become the first...
Sep 29, 2023
Explainer-UAW expands strike against GM, Ford in Week 3, spares Stellantis
(Reuters) - The United Auto Workers (UAW) union on Friday expanded its coordinated U.S. strike, this time targeting a plant at General Motors and Ford Motor but refraining from an additional walkout f...
Sep 29, 2023
Police arrest suspect in 1996 shooting of US rapper Tupac Shakur -AP
(Reuters) - Las Vegas police have arrested a man on suspicion of murder in the shooting of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur, who was killed in the city nearly three decades ago, the Associated Press reported...
Sep 29, 2023
Valkyrie Funds halts ethereum purchases for exchange-traded fund
By Suzanne McGee (Reuters) - Financial services firm Valkyrie Funds LLC said on Friday it will halt buying of ethereum for the Valkyrie Bitcoin and Ether Strategy ETF and unwind any positions already ...
Sep 29, 2023
US SEC charges FTX’s former auditor over independence violations
(Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday said it has charged accounting firm Prager Metis, which previously did audit work for the FTX Group, with hundreds of auditor independ...
Sep 29, 2023
Hundreds of Dutch farms grappling with bluetongue virus, government says
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Hundreds of farms in the Netherlands are grappling with an outbreak of the bluetongue virus in a setback for the country's farming industry, the Dutch government said on Friday. ...
Sep 29, 2023
European shares end worst quarter in a year with minor gain
By Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Shubham Batra (Reuters) -European shares rose on Friday after a drop in euro zone inflation in September cemented hopes the European Central Bank will pause its interest ra...
Sep 29, 2023
UAW set to expand strike at Ford, GM
(Reuters) - The United Auto Workers will walk off the job at an additional plant each at General Motors and Ford, but will spare Stellantis after last-minutes concessions by the Chrysler parent, union...
Sep 29, 2023
Top US House foreign affairs Democrat seeks “pause” on military aid to Egypt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The ranking Democrat on the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Friday he had asked the U.S. State Department to "pause" a portion of U.S. military financi...
Sep 29, 2023
EU starts early-stage probe into Nvidia-dominated AI chip market’s abuses – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) -The European Union is examining alleged anticompetitive abuses in chips used for artificial intelligence, a market which Nvidia dominates, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people f...
Sep 29, 2023
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