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Exxon must face Massachusetts lawsuit alleging climate change deceit
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A Massachusetts state judge has rejected Exxon Mobil Corp's bid to dismiss a lawsuit by state Attorney General Maura Healey accusing the oil company of misleading consu...
Jun 23, 2021
Canada lawmakers pass budget bill with pandemic supports ahead of summer recess
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian lawmakers on Wednesday passed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's budget bill, approving billions in funding to extend COVID-19 supports on the last day of voti...
Jun 23, 2021
Too Broke To Go Anywhere . . . "Stay-cation"?
Whether you stay at home and just napped on the couch, or get out and about in your local area, "Stay-cation" may be in the works if your low on funds. They say 21% of us think Staycation is when you ...
Jun 23, 2021 Raphaël Biscaldi / Unsplash
Yellen says inflation should be lower than current levels by year end
(Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday that inflation should retreat by year end from its current elevated level as supply bottlenecks get worked out, adding she sees littl...
Jun 23, 2021
U.N. chief warns no Syria cross-border aid would be ‘devastating’
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the Security Council on Wednesday to renew a cross-border aid operation into war-torn Syria for anoth...
Jun 23, 2021
Reuters Events: Allstate seeks more agents, but not as ‘human modems’
By Alwyn Scott NEW YORK (Reuters) - Allstate Corp wants to buy more independent insurance agencies this year to build the business it acquired with its purchase of National General, Allstate Chief Exe...
Jun 23, 2021
U.S. restricts exports to 5 Chinese firms over rights violations
By Karen Freifeld, Michael Martina and David Shepardson (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday restricted exports to five Chinese companies that it said were implicated in Chinese human rights vio...
Jun 23, 2021
U.S. to send 3 million J&J COVID-19 vaccine doses to Brazil
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday will ship 3 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson one-shot COVID-19 vaccine to Brazil, the country with the second-highest coronav...
Jun 23, 2021
Fed’s Rosengren says central bank needs to keep eye on financial stability risks
(Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials need to keep a close watch on financial stability risks, and rising home prices in particular should be monitored, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren said on Wed...
Jun 23, 2021
Brazil Environment Minister Salles resigns amid illegal logging probe
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles has resigned, the official government gazette said on Wednesday, amid a criminal investigation into whether he obstructed a police pr...
Jun 23, 2021
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