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Futures slip ahead of retail sales data
(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Tuesday ahead of data that is likely to show the pace of the U.S. economic recovery slowed, while Home Depot kicked off the retail earnings season on a dou...
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Spain gets tranche of 9 billion euros in EU COVID recovery fund, Lithuania 289 million
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Spain on Tuesday received its first tranche of money amounting to 9 billion euros ($10.6 billion) from the 800 billion euro EU Recovery Fund meant to help the bloc recover from th...
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U.S. Democrats ride trains, buses to spotlight spending push
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democrats are riding buses and trains and holding roundtable discussions this summer as they make the case that a government spending blitz backed by Pres...
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As murders surge, Democrats find a new message: Fund the police
By James Oliphant and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last summer, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser played a high-profile role in the protests sweeping America over police killings of Black suspects...
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Exclusive-Guinea rail builders blast in chimp habitat, no plan to protect apes
By Helen Reid and Joe Bavier JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A Chinese-backed consortium building infrastructure for a massive iron ore mine in Guinea started blasting a railway tunnel in a habitat for a cri...
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Walmart beats U.S. sales estimates on back-to-school demand, raises forecast
(Reuters) -Walmart Inc raised its annual U.S. same-store sales forecast after beating analysts' estimates on Tuesday, buoyed by customers splurging on back-to-school products from backpacks to clothes...
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U.S. plans to begin administering COVID-19 booster shots in September – source
(Reuters) -The Biden administration plans to begin administering COVID-19 booster shots to Americans as early as mid or late September, pending authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
Julia Bradley Aug 17, 2021
Eco-friendly vehicles offer quieter, cleaner safaris in Kenyan reserve
By Monicah Mwangi MAASAI MARA, Kenya (Reuters) - In Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve, the Toyota 4x4 Landcruiser of tour guide and driver Sylvester Mukenye glides silently past a herd of grazing e...
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Dutch museum fills ‘Blind Spot’ with exhibit for visually impaired
By Eva Plevier AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Visitors to a Dutch exhibition titled "The Blind Spot" may call it a little cheesy - but they mean that as a compliment. Utrecht Central Museum launched the unusua...
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Delta, beef prices threaten to take the sizzle out of U.S. steakhouses
By Hilary Russ and Lisa Baertlein NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Just as American steakhouses are recovering from the first wave of COVID shutdowns, the Delta variant threatens to diminish the appet...
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