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Anti-corruption groups, White House back money laundering bill in Congress
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. anti-corruption groups are pushing Congress to attach sweeping new money-laundering rules to a year-end bill funding the government that lawmakers aim to p...
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‘A better chapter’: 18-year-old man elected mayor of Arkansas town
(Reuters) - Jaylen Smith, who counts his high school graduation earlier this year among his top accomplishments, can now add one more: election as mayor of small-town Earle, Arkansas, at the age of 18...
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Ex-Theranos president Balwani sentenced to nearly 13 years for fraud
By Jody Godoy (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced former Theranos Inc President Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani to 12 years and 11 months in prison on charges of defrauding investors and patients o...
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Blackstone CEO says financially distressed investors driving REIT redemptions
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blackstone Inc Chief Executive Stephen Schwarzman said on Wednesday that redemptions in his firm's $69 billion non-traded real estate income trust (REIT) were dri...
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IHSA to move state football finals to ISU’s Hancock Stadium
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – If Peoria High School were to make back to back appearances in the state high school football tournament next year, they won’t have to travel as far to play. The Illino...
Will Stevenson Dec 07, 2022
Analysis-Peru markets take in political drama as investors focus on fundamentals
By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - On a day of high drama for Peruvian politics that saw the president threaten to dissolve Congress before himself being ousted, the Andean country's financial mar...
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Colombia awards infrastructure project worth $674.5 million to Spain’s Sacyr
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government on Wednesday awarded a project worth 3.25 trillion pesos ($674.5 million) to Spanish engineering firm Sacyr for reconstructing and maintaining the Dique Canal,...
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Kim Kardashian, other celebrities beat EMax crypto investors’ lawsuit
By Jody Godoy (Reuters) - A federal judge in California on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against reality TV star Kim Kardashian, boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. and others over their role in promot...
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Republican lawmakers criticize U.S. grant to battery company with China ties
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior Republican lawmakers on Wednesday were highly critical of the decision by the U.S. Energy Department to award $200 million to Microvast Holdings o...
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Australia’s RBA finds unexpected industry interest in an eAUD
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A pilot programme for a digital eAUD currency in Australia has attracted much more interest from industry than expected and some projects are set to be tested early next year, a cen...
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