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New York City drivers could face up to $23 a day congestion charge
By David Shepardson (Reuters) - New York City could introduce a traffic congestion charge of up to $23 a day late next year, which a study released on Wednesday projected would reduce the number of ca...
Aug 10, 2022
What’s in a name? Illinois hopes to make invasive carp fish more palatable
(Reuters) - Illinois is rebranding an invasive carp in the hopes of encouraging people to eat it - and solving a decades-old issue that has been threatening the ecosystem of the U.S. state's waterways...
Aug 10, 2022
Coca-Cola bottler to detail costs of exiting Russia
By Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co's bottler Coca Cola HBC AG will on Thursday detail the cost of stopping production and sales of Coke in Russia, a goal that has taken five months ...
Aug 10, 2022
Social media video shows Bartonville firefighter using N-word
BARTONVILLE, Ill. – The Bartonville Fire Department is under fire again — this time, after a years-old video resurfaced on social media allegedly showing the assistant chief using a racial...
Aug 10, 2022
Colombia green groups try again to ban fracking, hope fourth time’s the charm
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian lawmakers, the environment minister and environmental campaigners on Wednesday proposed a bill to congress that would ban fracking, hoping it would pass ...
Aug 10, 2022
PPD: Officer uninjured, driver hospitalized after crash with patrol car
PEORIA, Ill. — We’re learning more about a traffic crash that involved a Peoria Police officer. PPD says it happened just after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of West McClure Ave...
Aug 10, 2022
Fed’s Kashkari: Far from victory on inflation, sees sharp rate hikes ahead
(Reuters) - Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari on Wednesday said that he continues to believe that the U.S. central bank will need to raise its policy rate to 3.9% by year-end an...
Aug 10, 2022
Global physical oil market weakens as recession jitters mount
By Arathy Somasekhar, Noah Browning and Alex Lawler HOUSTON/LONDON (Reuters) - Physical oil prices around the world have begun to sag alongside futures, reflecting less alarm over Russian-led supply d...
Aug 10, 2022
U.S. rejects broadband subsidies for SpaceX’s Starlink, LTD
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said Wednesday it was rejecting the applications of SpaceX's Starlink and LTD Broadband to receive government subsidies through ...
Aug 10, 2022
Less-divided U.S. steelworkers union to greet Vice President Harris
By Erwin Seba LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris faces a less politically divided audience at the United Steelworkers convention on Wednesday compared to previous years, said memb...
Aug 10, 2022
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