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Platinum Equity to buy McGraw Hill from Apollo for $4.5 billion
(Reuters) -Billionaire Tom Gores' private equity firm Platinum Equity would acquire textbook publishing and educational technology company McGraw Hill for $4.5 billion from Apollo Global Management In...
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Congressional Democrats wary of Senate infrastructure plan
By Makini Brice and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday criticized a $1.2 trillion infrastructure proposal by a bipartisan group of Senate moderates as negl...
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Brazil has 2,468 COVID deaths in 24 hours, nears half million toll – ministry
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil has had 80,609 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 2,468 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The South American cou...
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Golf-Bombs away! DeChambeau promises to unleash on Torrey Pines
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Reuters) - Bryson DeChambeau has dismantled courses with his prodigious length off the tee and on Tuesday said to expect more of the same from him this week at Torrey Pines, where h...
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NHC says Bill to weaken, become post-tropical low
(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Bill is forecast to weaken and become a post-tropical low by Tuesday evening, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, adding that it is likely to dissipate on Wednesd...
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Peru’s Castillo leads election with 50.1% of votes after all ballots tallied
LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian socialist candidate Pedro Castillo held a narrow lead with 50.125% of the vote ahead of conservative rival Keiko Fujimori on 49.875% with all ballots finally counted after th...
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Congo Senate declines to lift former PM’s immunity over failed agro project
By Stanis Bujakera and Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's Senate on Tuesday rejected a request by prosecutors to lift former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon's immunity so they could indict him ...
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Outgoing Southern Baptist president denounces racism at annual meeting
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - The outgoing president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) railed against racism and the influence of politics within the conservative U.S. evangelical movement in...
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Canada’s Green Party in turmoil, leader resists calls to step down
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Green Party was increasingly mired in an internal dispute over its position on Israel on Tuesday, and a news report said the bloc would hold a vote next month on whether to...
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Putin impersonator beats real president to Geneva
By Emma Farge and Yiming Woo GENEVA (Reuters) - A day before Russian President Vladimir Putin was due to arrive in Geneva for a historic summit with U.S. President Joe Biden, a look-alike was spotted ...
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