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No new ethics reform in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — New ethics reform has failed to pass the Illinois House. House members did not accept Gov. J-B Pritzker’s amendatory veto Tuesday night. The bill was passed earlier thi...
Julia Bradley Sep 01, 2021
Apple asks U.S. employees to report vaccination status – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - Apple Inc is asking its U.S employees to report their vaccination status as COVID-19 cases spike in the country, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing an internal memo. The iPhone m...
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Illinois Senate passes clean energy bill
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Senate passed a massive clean energy bill early Wednesday morning. The measure will close many private coal fire power plants by 2030, and it would close down mu...
Dalton Kemper Sep 01, 2021

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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