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Ethics complaints against two Pekin City Council members thrown out
PEKIN, Ill. – Ethics complaints filed against two Pekin City Council members, including one who just got tossed off the mayoral election ballot, are themselves tossed out. Pekin Firefighter John...
Dec 14, 2022
Russia working with Venezuela on possible adoption of card payment system -Tass
(Reuters) - Moscow is working with Venezuela on its possible adoption of Russia's Mir card payment system, Tass news agency cited Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak as saying on Wednesday. Novak is...
Dec 14, 2022
Key union organizing tactic backed by U.S. labor board
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - The agency that enforces U.S. labor laws on Wednesday made it easier for unions to organize small groups of a company's workforce, which could give them a key advantage ...
Dec 14, 2022
LGBT nightclub massacre survivors tell U.S. Congress: ‘We are being slaughtered’
By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Survivors of mass shootings targeting U.S. LGBT nightclubs detailed the violence they endured and criticized inflammatory political rhetoric in a congressional h...
Dec 14, 2022
East Bluff residents want help fighting holiday eviction notices
PEORIA, Ill. – The Peoria and Illinois ACLU chapters say they are getting involved in the plight of more than two dozen East Bluff renters that say they just got eviction notices from their Texa...
Dec 14, 2022
North Dakota, Iowa join other U.S. states in banning TikTok from state-owned devices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Dakota and Iowa have joined a growing number of U.S. states in banning the Chinese-owned short-video-sharing app TikTok from state-owned devices, citing national security ...
Dec 14, 2022
U.S. lawsuit seeks to sanction Mexico for failing to protect world’s smallest porpoise
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday, pressuring the U.S. government to sanction Mexico for failing to protect the critically endangered va...
Dec 14, 2022
Securities trader charged in New York with front-running employer’s trades
(Reuters) - An equities trader at a large U.S. asset manager was criminally charged with using information about his employer's trades to make tens of millions of dollars in an insider trading scheme,...
Dec 14, 2022
Ecuador’s trade agreement with China is ‘practically closed,’ says Lasso
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso said on Wednesday that the country is on the verge of closing a free trade agreement with China, a deal that would increase exports ...
Dec 14, 2022
Citigroup promotes most women ever to MD role- memo
(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc promoted over 100 women to the role of managing director, the highest ever for the bank, according to a memo seen by Reuters. For the bank, which named a total of 331 employe...
Dec 14, 2022
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