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UPDATE: Juvenile is Peoria’s 10th homicide victim of the year
UPDATE 9:09 a.m. PEORIA, Ill. - Police are investigating a fatal shooting in Peoria Monday night. Officers were called around 10:15 p.m. to the area of W. Richwoods Boulevard and N. Molleck Drive, whe...
Julia Bradley Jun 27, 2023
More than 100 U.S. political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders
By Lawrence Delevingne (Reuters) - (Edited by Blake Morrison)
Syndicated Content Jun 27, 2023
Jaunts in jets, not risky adventures, the norm for wealthy travelers
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Tatiana Bautzer and Julia Harte NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clad in a blue jumpsuit and dangling from the side of a skyscraper 1,200 feet above New York City, billionaire Richard Bran...
Syndicated Content Jun 27, 2023
For America’s political elite, family links to slavery abound
By Tom Lasseter, Lawrence Delevingne, Makini Brice, Donna Bryson and Tom Bergin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. lawmakers commemorated the end of slavery by celebrating Juneteenth this month, many of t...
Syndicated Content Jun 27, 2023
Sale of maker of Purell hand sanitizer falls flat -sources
By Abigail Summerville and Anirban Sen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The end of the COVID-19 pandemic has weighed not just on demand for Purell but also on efforts to sell the maker of the hand sanitizer. Gojo...
Syndicated Content Jun 27, 2023
Trump team lobbying for primary rule changes to boost his 2024 chances
By Nathan Layne, Alexandra Ulmer and Gram Slattery (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump is leveraging his connections to loyalists in key primary states to lobby for voting rules and dates that c...
Syndicated Content Jun 27, 2023
Analysis-Bolivia’s creaking big state model rings warning bell in South America
By Raul Cortes and Daniel Ramos LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia's "economic miracle," a boom in the 2000s and 2010s that saw years of state spending lift millions of people into the middle class, is creaki...
Syndicated Content Jun 27, 2023
J&J’s $8.9 billion talc settlement faces US bankruptcy test
By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson's proposed $8.9 billion settlement of thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talc products cause cancer faces a crucial hurdle this week as a U.S. ban...
Syndicated Content Jun 27, 2023
Sick sea lions washing ashore in California due to algae bloom
By Omar Younis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rescued from the beach, a sick sea lion and her newborn pup are now on the mend with dozens of others at a marine mammal care center, part of effort by Californi...
Syndicated Content Jun 27, 2023
Marketmind: China supports, peak rate haze
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Flagging world markets got a lift on Tuesday as China moved to shore up the falling yuan from the year's lows and nodded to more gove...
Syndicated Content Jun 27, 2023
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