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Former Peoria school will be torn down, thanks to federal money
UPDATED 8:17 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. – The federal government is giving out money that will help Peoria tear down a former school that’s become an eyesore. $1 million in Community Project Fundin...
Apr 21, 2022
SpaceX’s Starlink inks first in-flight WiFi deal
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - SpaceX signed its first deal with an air carrier to provide in-flight wireless internet using the Starlink satellite network, the space company said on Thursday...
Apr 21, 2022
NFL says Black coaches’ discrimination claims should be thrown out or arbitrated
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Football League on Thursday said lawsuits by three Black coaches accusing the league of racist hiring practices should be dismissed because the cl...
Apr 21, 2022
Development finance system needs urgent reforms, more money, to stave off disaster – public, private groups
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The global development finance system needs urgent reforms and far more private capital to address the multiple, overlapping crises that are pushing 250 million...
Apr 21, 2022
McDonald’s calls Icahn demands on sourcing pigs unfeasible, expensive
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp on Thursday said Carl Icahn's call for the fast food chain to stop buying pork from suppliers that house the animals in crates would be logist...
Apr 21, 2022
Mexico banking institution Banorte in talks with Citibanamex- Banorte CEO
(Reuters) - Mexican banking institution Banorte is in talks with Citigroup Inc's Mexican consumer banking business Citibanamex for the sale of its assets, Banorte chief executive Marcos Ramirez Miguel...
Apr 21, 2022
Donald Trump Jr. agrees to meet with House panel probing Jan. 6 Capitol attack -New York Times
(Reuters) - Donald Trump Jr. has agreed to meet soon with the U.S. House of Representatives panel that is probing the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, the New York Times reported Thursday ci...
Apr 21, 2022
Scientists breed threatened Florida coral species in step toward reef restoration
By Brian Ellsworth and Julio-Cesar Chavez (Reuters) - Scientists have successfully bred a threatened species of coral as part of a project that hopes to restore damaged reefs off the coast of Florida ...
Apr 21, 2022
New York City’s Central Park a ‘lab’ to study climate change
By Christine Kiernan and Aleksandra Michalska NEW YORK (Reuters) - Central Park, New York City's 843-acre green lung created in 1858, is now a climate change laboratory that researchers hope will help...
Apr 21, 2022
Governor: State’s bond rating improved again
CHICAGO, Ill. – Governor JB Pritzker says for the third time in the last few years, the state has done something it hadn’t done in the two decades prior: improve its financial rating. Mood...
Apr 21, 2022
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