Illinois governor agrees to sell bonds to pay off bills
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner said on Thursday the state will sell $6 billion of bonds to reduce an unpaid bill pile that ballooned to more than $15 billion during an unprecedented two-year budget impasse.
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter to step down in December
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Graydon Carter, the editor of Conde Nast’s influential culture magazine Vanity Fair and a decades-long critic of President Donald Trump, will step down in December after 25 years at the helm, the publication said on Thursday.
ACT cancels some college entrance exams after test leak
(Reuters) – ACT Inc, the maker of the United States’ most popular college entrance exam, said on Thursday it has canceled the ACT exam scheduled for Saturday at some of its international test centers due to a breach of the test materials.
U.S. Justice Department faults DEA over agent’s dangerous liaison
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An internal government watchdog report has found that two former top officials at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration improperly reinstated the security clearance of a special agent who was having a sexual affair with a conv…
Rescue mission underway for rare wine collections menaced by Irma
(Reuters) – Swooping in ahead of Hurricane Irma’s feared weekend arrival, an emergency response team is rescuing rare treasures – some of them survivors of world wars and all of them liquid – from harm’s way in Florida and Louisiana.
Hurricane Irma leaves 11 dead as it tears through Caribbean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma plowed past the Dominican Republic on Thursday after devastating a string of Caribbean islands and killing at least 11 people as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century took aim at Florida….
Trump says DACA recipients should not worry about status
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Youths who were brought to the United States illegally and gained protection under the Obama administration should not worry about their immigration status during the next six months before the program ends, U.S. President Donald…
Hurricane Irma kills eight on Caribbean island of Saint Martin
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma killed eight people on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and left Barbuda devastated on Thursday as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century took aim at Florida.
Batteries for homes, businesses surged in U.S. in second quarter
(Reuters) – The U.S. energy storage market fell 11 percent in the second quarter as utilities connected fewer large projects to the grid, but batteries deployed in homes and businesses hit a record thanks to state incentives in California and Hawaii an…
Hurricane Irma kills eight on Saint Martin as it pounds Caribbean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma killed eight people on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and also caused devastation on other islands on Thursday as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century took aim at Florida.
