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Uvalde schools police chief misses second city council meeting since shooting
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo, who is also a member of the city council, missed a second council meeting on Thursday at which he was to face questions from t...
Jun 30, 2022
DE Shaw, executives must pay $52 million to ex-money manager, arbitration panel says
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The prominent U.S. hedge fund DE Shaw and four senior executives must pay $52.1 million to a former top money manager who accused the firm of defamation, an arbitration panel rule...
Jun 30, 2022
Peru’s Machu Picchu threatened by wildfire
LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian firefighters were fighting to contain a forest fire near the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu on Thursday, as the blaze threatened to close in on the ancient city high in the Ande...
Jun 30, 2022
‘Art & Disruption’ part of new Peoria Riverfront Museum exhibit
PEORIA, Ill. – The newest exhibit to hit the galleries at the Peoria Riverfront Museum opens on Saturday. It’s called “American Revolutionaries: Art and Disruption” — 166...
Jun 30, 2022
Bitcoin falls below $19,000, further shaking crypto markets
(Reuters) - Bitcoin dropped 6.1% to $18,866.77 at 2004 GMT on Thursday, putting the biggest and best-known cryptocurrency down $1,226.41 from its previous close and down 60.9% from the year's high of ...
Jun 30, 2022
Israel’s eToro to abandon deal to go public via SPAC merger -The Information
(Reuters) -Online brokerage eToro and Betsy Cohen-backed blank-check firm FinTech Acquisition Corp V are planning to let the Thursday deadline for their merger pass without closing the deal, The Infor...
Jun 30, 2022
Turkey blocks access to Deutsche Welle, Voice of America for not getting licenses -official
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's RTUK media watchdog has blocked access to U.S.-based Voice of America and German broadcaster Deutsche Welle for not applying for the licenses it requests, a member of the w...
Jun 30, 2022
JetBlue extends tender offer date for Spirit Airlines
(Reuters) - JetBlue Airways Corp said on Thursday it was extending the expiration date of its cash tender offer for Spirit Airlines Inc to July 29 from June 30. (Reporting by Manas Mishra in Bengaluru...
Jun 30, 2022
U.S.-dollar Libor transition enters critical phase for leveraged loan market
By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) - The one-year countdown began on Thursday to the end of the publication of the tarnished London Interbank Offer Rate, or Libor, for existing U.S. dollar-denominated...
Jun 30, 2022
New whale spotted in Seine river, one month after orca dies
PARIS (Reuters) - A cetacean that could be a 10-metre-long (33-foot-long) Minke whale was spotted in France's Seine river close to the English Channel, local authorities said on Thursday, only a month...
Jun 30, 2022
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