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Mogul Diller says ViacomCBS, Comcast don’t need deals to succeed
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - ViacomCBS Inc and Comcast Corp can succeed without acquiring other businesses, IAC Chairman Barry Diller said during a Reuters Newsmaker event Thursday. The media and Inter...
Jun 10, 2021
California appeals judge’s ruling striking down assault weapons ban
(Reuters) - California officials on Thursday said the state has appealed a federal judge's decision to strike down its three-decade-old ban on assault-style weapons, saying the law is needed to preven...
Jun 10, 2021
Back to life: IL to fully reopen
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — It’s a day 15 months in the making. Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health have officially announced Friday will be the start of Phase Five of ...
Jun 10, 2021
Warner Bros. plans anime movie in ‘Lord of the Rings’ series
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Warner Bros. movie studio will produce an anime feature film set in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's popular "The Lord of the Rings" books, officials announced on Thursday. "T...
Jun 10, 2021
France and its partners work on financing mechanism for Lebanon – Macron
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he was working with international partners to create a financial mechanism to ensure important public services can continue to work ...
Jun 10, 2021
Amazon to ask staff to return to office for three days a week
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday some corporate employees will be offered the option to return to office for three days a week and work remotely for the other two days. Employees in frontli...
Jun 10, 2021
Bank of Canada says digital transformation helped economy cope with COVID-19
By Julie Gordon and David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - The rapid digitization of the Canadian economy in the COVID-19 pandemic has helped limit the damage to potential output, and that means the econo...
Jun 10, 2021
State’s Attorney: Dr. Marshall’s killer was part of a larger burglary ring
PEORIA, Ill. — More information was released Thursday regarding the murder of Dr. William Marshall inside his home on Jan. 6. 54-year-old Robert Ely was arrested in St. Louis Wednesday for the f...
Jun 10, 2021
Analysis: Hotter inflation fails to shake U.S. markets out of torpor, with Fed in driver’s seat
By Karen Pierog CHICAGO (Reuters) - Investors are not freaking out over a spike in U.S. inflation in the past two months, showing confidence that the Federal Reserve is deftly handling a rebound in ec...
Jun 10, 2021
With a nod to Black Lives Matter, UK’s Johnson gives Biden mural photo
CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) -Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave U.S. President Joe Biden a framed photograph of a British mural depicting Black 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the Briti...
Jun 10, 2021
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