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Death threats and the KKK: Inside a Black Alabaman’s fight to remove a Confederate statue
By Tim Reid (Reuters) - Ever since Camille Bennett started her campaign to relocate a Confederate statue from outside the county courthouse in her hometown of Florence, Alabama, she has seen it all: t...
May 27, 2021
Headwinds: Offshore wind will take time to carry factory jobs to U.S.
By Isla Binnie, Susanna Twidale and Nichola Groom (Reuters) - When U.S. President Joe Biden's administration approved the country's first major offshore wind farm this month, it billed the move as the...
May 27, 2021
Explainer: What to watch as Fed ramps up exploration of a digital dollar
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials recently have amped up the tone and tempo around their exploration of a digital version of the U.S. dollar, a high-stakes undertaking for the ce...
May 27, 2021
EU, Japan back Olympics Games as symbol of global unity
BRUSSELS/TOKYO (Reuters) - The European Union and Japan agreed on Thursday that they favoured Tokyo's hosting of the Olympic Games this year, despite concerns over the influx of athletes and officials...
May 27, 2021
Police, FBI seek motive in California shooting rampage
By Peter DaSilva and Dan Whitcomb SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - Police and federal investigators sought on Thursday to determine why a Northern California transit employee opened fire on his co-workers...
May 27, 2021
U.S. drivers to get hit by soaring pump prices over Memorial Day holiday
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. motorists will see the highest gasoline prices in seven years when they hit the roads this Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the summer drivin...
May 27, 2021
Factbox-Europe’s fight over farming subsidies
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union negotiators are attempting to clinch a deal this week to reform the bloc's huge farming subsidy programme, to make it greener and offer more support ...
May 27, 2021
Foxconn in talks to buy stake in Malaysia’s DNeX -report
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Taiwanese firm Foxconn Technology Co Ltd is in talks to acquire a stake in Malaysian technology firm Dagang NeXchange Bhd (DNeX) after losing a bid for a semiconductor maker D...
May 27, 2021
Overnight shooting leaves one dead in Peoria, victim ID’ed
***UPDATE*** 5/27/21 3:45 P.M. 20-year-old Kandon Bonner has been identified as the victim. An autopsy showed Bonner suffered multiple gunshots to his thorax. _________________________________________...
May 27, 2021
Talks drag on in search for deal on Europe’s farming subsidies
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Talks on the future of the European Union's huge farming subsidies ran into extra time on Thursday, as negotiators argued over how far they are willing to change th...
May 27, 2021
Peoria, IL, USA
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