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Explainer-What is ‘ranked-choice voting,’ the new system for New York’s mayoral election?
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - When New York City voters go to the polls on Tuesday to select their party's mayoral nominee, they will fill out a new kind of ballot that allows them to pick up to five candi...
Jun 22, 2021
U.S. lawmakers likely to press Powell on Fed’s ‘hawkish’ turn
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday will testify in a congressional hearing likely to focus on how the U.S. central bank is balancing rising infla...
Jun 22, 2021
Bollore scores win as Vivendi investors back Universal spin-off
By Mathieu Rosemain and Gwnalle Barzic PARIS (Reuters) -Shareholders in Vivendi overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday the French media giant's plan to spin off its prized Universal music business, in a w...
Jun 22, 2021
Native Americans decry unmarked graves, untold history of boarding schools
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Clarence Smith was fresh off a 24-hour bus trip from his Blackfeet reservation in Montana to the Flandreau Indian School in South Dakota in the late 1980s, where he was sent...
Jun 22, 2021
As NYC faces steep recovery, voters head to polls in mayoral election
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Voters in New York City head to the polls on Tuesday to select Democratic and Republican nominees for mayor, following a campaign dominated by debate over public safety as the...
Jun 22, 2021
Exclusive: Google drops engineering residency after protests over ‘inequities’
By Jeffrey Dastin and Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google plans to shut down a long-running program aimed at entry-level engineers from underrepresented backgrounds after participants said i...
Jun 22, 2021
Factbox-What are Democrats considering including in a voting rights bill?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Republican-controlled state legislatures pass a wave of laws https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-erect-voting-barriers-across-number-politically-crucial-us-states-20...
Jun 22, 2021
Natural language processing tech startup Primer raises $110 million
By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Primer, a San Francisco-based startup that offers a natural language processing platform used by U.S. national security agencies and others, on Tuesday s...
Jun 22, 2021
Even after Biden tax hike, U.S. firms would pay less than foreign rivals
By Tom Bergin (Reuters) - U.S. companies pay less income tax than their overseas competitors and would likely continue to do so under a tax hike proposed by President Joe Biden, according to a Reuters...
Jun 22, 2021
Explainer: Britney Spears case throws spotlight on complex conservatorships
(Reuters) - Pop star Britney Spears has been under a court-appointed conservatorship, or guardianship, since 2008. On Wednesday, she is due to make a personal address to the Los Angeles judge who is h...
Jun 22, 2021
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