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U.S. Supreme Court backs Alaska Natives in COVID-19 aid dispute
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that federal COVID-19 relief funds can go to specially created corporations for Native Alaskans even though they are not...
Jun 25, 2021
Fed’s Kashkari: Inflation will be temporary, workers will return
(Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Neel Kashkari on Friday said he expects recent high inflation readings will not last, and Americans will return to the labor market in large numbers by ...
Jun 25, 2021
Foreign carmakers’ U.S. plants relax COVID-19 protocols as Detroit 3 keep masks
By Paul Lienert (Reuters) - Foreign automakers are beginning to relax some COVID-19 protocols at their U.S. plants, including the wearing of masks, even as the Detroit-based carmakers and the United A...
Jun 25, 2021
Exclusive: YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forces rights group to seek alternative
By Victoria Waldersee and Paresh Dave (Reuters) - A human rights group that attracted millions of views on YouTube to testimonies from people who say their families have disappeared in China's Xinjian...
Jun 25, 2021
Canada puts U.S. Three Percenters militia on terror list, cites risk of violent extremism
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada officially named the U.S. right-wing militia group Three Percenters a terrorist entity on Friday, saying it posed a "significant threat" to Canadian domesti...
Jun 25, 2021
UK inflation pressure could keep on building in 2022 – BoE’s Haldane
LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane said the central bank's new forecast that inflation will breach 3% could prove too low and price pressure could accelerate not only this...
Jun 25, 2021
From Sick Boy to PM: Jonny Lee Miller joins ‘The Crown’ cast as Major
(Corrects name to Jonny from Johnny in headline and first paragraph) LONDON (Reuters) -Actor Jonny Lee Miller, known for playing drug addict Sick Boy in the 1996 film "Trainspotting", is joining the c...
Jun 25, 2021
Delta variant accounts for 16.8% of cases in Italy – national health institute
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's national health institute ISS said on Friday the Delta variant accounted for 16.8% of total COVID-19 cases in the country. Pending results of a more complete survey that will...
Jun 25, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court backs refineries in biofuel waiver dispute
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday bolstered a bid by small oil refineries to seek exemptions from a federal law requiring increasing levels of ethanol and other renewable fue...
Jun 25, 2021
Brazil tax reform to cut income tax for 30 million workers – Economy Minister
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Reform of the Brazilian tax system will reduce income tax for 30 million workers and exempt 16 million from paying any income tax at all, Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Fri...
Jun 25, 2021
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