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Ex-Minnesota police officer found guilty of manslaughter in shooting of Daunte Wright
UPDATED 1:38 P.M. (Reuters) – A Minnesota jury on Thursday found former police officer Kimberly Potter guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traff...
Dec 23, 2021
Drugmaker Endo strikes $63 million opioid settlement with Texas
(Reuters) - Endo International Plc has agreed to pay $63 million to resolve claims by the state of Texas that the drugmaker helped fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic, the state's attorney general said on T...
Dec 23, 2021
Morgan Stanley says staff should limit large meetings in January -report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley has told staff who need to be in the office in the first two weeks of January to limit large in-person meetings, according to Bloomberg News. The directive, in a me...
Dec 23, 2021
Cookie chain chooses East Peoria as first Central Illinois location
EAST PEORIA, Ill. – Another new business is coming to East Peoria, and it might be pretty delicious. Cullinan Properties says the first Central Illinois location of Crumbl Cookies will be in the...
Dec 23, 2021
U.S. transportation secretary announces over $241 million in grants for U.S. ports
(Reuters) - U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced over $241 million in discretionary grant funding for 25 projects to improve port facilities in 19 U.S. states and one territory to ad...
Dec 23, 2021
Waymo, TikTok join retreat from CES over rising COVID-19 cases
By Paresh Dave (Reuters) -Waymo, the Alphabet Inc-owned self-driving auto-technology company, and ByteDance's social video app TikTok on Thursday joined the companies no longer attending the Consumer ...
Dec 23, 2021
Lira extends week’s rally bolstered by Turkish state banks
By Nevzat Devranoglu and Ezgi Erkoyun ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's lira rallied further on Thursday and was on track for its best week in two decades, boosted by a government plan to protect some dep...
Dec 23, 2021
Writer Joan Didion, chronicler of contemporary American society, dies at 87
(Refiles to restore missing words to lede) (Reuters) -Author Joan Didion, whose essays, memoirs, novels and screenplays chronicled contemporary American society, as well as her grief over the deaths o...
Dec 23, 2021
Facebook appeals UK ruling that it must sell Giphy
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook-owner Meta is appealing Britain's ruling that it must sell animated images platform Giphy, saying the evidence does not support the finding that the deal is ...
Dec 23, 2021
Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to block release of White House records
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the release of White House records sought by the House of Representatives commi...
Dec 23, 2021
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