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Catholic School returns to remote learning due to COVID-19
PEORIA, Ill. – A Peoria Catholic school says it’s being forced to return to remote learning after what appears to be a COVID-19 outbreak there. Our news partner 25 News reports St. Jude Ca...
Will Stevenson Sep 01, 2021
‘We don’t know it’: Salvadorans fret over looming bitcoin adoption
By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - In the main handicraft market of El Salvador's capital, traders complain that with a week to go before bitcoin becomes legal tender, no officials have come ...
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The unfolding of the Kansas City Southern takeover saga
(Reuters) - The U.S. rail regulator on Tuesday rejected a voting trust structure that would have allowed Canadian National Railway Co to proceed with its $29 billion proposed acquisition of U.S. peer ...
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Majority of U.S. companies may mandate COVID-19 vaccine in coming months – survey
(Reuters) - More than half of U.S. companies are planning to impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the workplace by year end, with almost a quarter considering vaccination as a condition for employment,...
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‘Everybody screwed up’: Blame game begins over turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan
By Idrees Ali, Patricia Zengerle and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A week into the evacuation from Kabul, the U.S. military was forced to take a drastic step: stop all flights from Hamid Karz...
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Colorado police officers, paramedics charged in 2019 death of unarmed Black man
DENVER (Reuters) - Three Colorado police officers and two paramedics have been criminally charged in the death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man who died in 2019 after he was subdued and injecte...
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Markets cheer as Kansas City puts off shareholder meet after deal setback
By Abhijith Ganapavaram (Reuters) - Kansas City Southern on Wednesday pushed back a vote on its proposed $29 billion sale to Canadian National Railway as financial investors bet a decision by the U.S....
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The man behind the rebuilding of 9/11’s Ground Zero
(Reuters) - Developer Larry Silverstein signed a $3.2 billion 99-year lease on New York's World Trade Center six weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. He recalls the smoldering ruins of the Twin ...
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U.S. consumer watchdog proposes small business lending data rules
By Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Wednesday proposed new requirements for financial institutions to collect and report data on small busin...
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Biden vows to protect Roe v. Wade after Texas abortion law takes effect
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden condemned the Texas law that went into effect on Wednesday which prohibts the vast majority of abortions in the state, and pledged his administration would f...
Syndicated Content Sep 01, 2021
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