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Mexico issues warnings for expected hurricane on Pacific coast
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A tropical storm is forecast to form on Thursday off Mexico that will likely strengthen into a hurricane this week, causing the government to issue warnings for popular tourist...
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Exclusive-Rapper Travis Scott faces possible criminal charges for Texas crowd crush
By Jack Queen and Mike Spector (Reuters) - A Texas grand jury is meeting Thursday to weigh possible criminal charges against rapper Travis Scott and others over a 2021 crowd crush at a musical festiva...
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Exclusive-Alberta government calls off partnership with Chinese private equity fund
By Divya Rajagopal and Xie Yu TORONTO/HONG KONG (Reuters) -The Alberta government has ended a partnership with a Chinese private equity fund that targeted $10 billion to invest in the natural resource...
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Reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) -Here are reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action on Thursday, on Twitter and elsewhere. FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, DEMOCRAT: "Like an...
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Explainer-What the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action means for colleges
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious policies in college admissions, ending decades of precedent that had allowed schools nationwide to use such progr...
Syndicated Content Jun 29, 2023
Bolivia seals $1.4 billion lithium deals with Russia’s Rosatom, China’s Guoan
By Daniel Ramos LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia has signed lithium agreements with Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom and China's Citic Guoan Group, the South American country's government said on Thursday...
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Severe Thunderstorm Watch in effect until 5 PM Thursday (6/29)
The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford Counties until 5 P.M. A large complex of severe thunderstorms is forecast to cross the region earl...
Julia Bradley Jun 29, 2023
Lawsuit says OpenAI violated US authors’ copyrights to train AI chatbot
By Blake Brittain (Reuters) - Two U.S. authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to "train" its popular ...
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Post-affirmative action, these law schools may provide path for others
(Refiles to fix spelling error in 2nd paragraph) By Karen Sloan (Reuters) -The experience of two highly selective public U.S. law schools offers a guide for other schools to admitting diverse students...
Syndicated Content Jun 29, 2023
Three charged with insider trading in Trump-linked company
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged three men with insider trading in connection with a special-purpose acquisition company seeking to merge with a media and technology company f...
Syndicated Content Jun 29, 2023
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