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Father of accused Illinois gunman faces charges in July 4 parade mass shooting
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - An Illinois prosecutor has filed felony charges against the father of the man accused of opening fire on a crowd watching a July Fourth parade in Chicago's Highland Park su...
Dec 16, 2022
Pfizer defeats race-bias lawsuit over minority fellowship program
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday tossed a lawsuit by a group of medical professionals alleging that a fellowship program established by Pfizer Inc to improve diversity within its ...
Dec 16, 2022
Ghana extends domestic debt exchange registration deadline
By Cooper Inveen ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana has extended the registration deadline for its domestic debt exchange programme to Dec. 30, with an expected settlement date of Jan. 6, the finance ministry sa...
Dec 16, 2022
IMF executive board approves $3 billion Egypt extended arrangement
CAIRO (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive board has approved a 46-month $3 billion financial support package for Egypt, saying it will catalyse additional funding of about $14 b...
Dec 16, 2022
Citi ends litigation with Revlon lenders over $500 million accidental payment
(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc reached an agreement with all 10 Revlon Inc lenders that it mistakenly paid about $500 million on a loan, a court document showed on Friday. "About three quarters of the mist...
Dec 16, 2022
Washington state court blocks Albertsons special dividend
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) - Washington's state supreme court on Friday blocked Albertsons Companies Inc from paying a special dividend ahead of its acquisition by Kroger Co, a court order showed. Th...
Dec 16, 2022
North Carolina high court rejects voter-identification law, electoral map
(Reuters) - The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday knocked down a 2018 voter-identification law it said discriminated against Black voters and ordered a state Senate map be redrawn due to Republic...
Dec 16, 2022
Car hits West Bluff house
PEORIA, Ill. – A car crashed into a home in Peoria’s West Bluff Friday afternoon. Peoria Police say the crash near Sheridan Road and Columbia Terrace happened prior to 3:00 p.m. A police s...
Dec 16, 2022
Crypto exchange Bitvavo says 280 million euros ‘locked’ at DCG
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Bitvavo, a Dutch cryptocurrency exchange, said on Friday it has 280 million euros ($296.30 million) locked at Digital Currency Group (DCG), a U.S.-based company. "DCG is currentl...
Dec 16, 2022
Biden admin says U.S. wrongly revoked Oppenheimer’s security clearance in 1954
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Friday reversed a 1954 decision by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to revoke the security clearance of Robert Oppenheimer, known as the ...
Dec 16, 2022
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