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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Billionaire investor William Ackman’s hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management returned 26.7% last year, beating the broader stock market gains and bouncing back from a loss in the previous year, according to an investor update on Tuesday. For Ackman’s investor…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. regulators and XCast Labs have agreed on a proposed settlement of charges that the company facilitated billions of illegal robocalls, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Tuesday. The FTC also ordered the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider to pay a $10 mi…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. will reopen four legal U.S.-Mexico border crossings on Thursday as high levels of illegal immigration have receded and freed up personnel, U.S. border authorities said on Tuesday. The U.S. will resume operations at an international bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas, two cr…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) —  On Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first full day in office, he visited ground zero of the crisis that would come to define his next seven months. Striding into the 12th District Chicago police station on the Near West Side in May, the new chief executive clasped his hands before hi…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — A Texas nurse is accused of stealing pain relief drugs intended for patients and replacing them with saline, Houston officials say. Investigators say Alexis Joann McNeilly, 25, repeatedly took vials of hydromorphone and fentanyl from an automated dispenser at the hospital whe…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The workers in Alaska who determine how someone died are struggling to keep up with a wave of deaths brought on by a yearslong surge in fatal drug overdoses, which has sent more Alaskans to a state laboratory for autopsy than existing resources can accommodate. As a result of…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Two people were killed and eight others were wounded in a shooting at an underground New Year’s Eve celebration in downtown Los Angeles early Monday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Shortly before 1 a.m. on New Year’s Day, officers received a radio…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments from anti-abortion activists who say the abortion pill should be pulled from the shelf, Republican leaders in Georgia say they are waiting to see how things play out in the courts. Still, abortion rights advocates and most …

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Sharmila Bose says she feels close to the issue of anti-Asian hate because of an incident in August 2022, when a group of South Asian women was targeted in a racism-fueled attack. “The hate crime that happened to these four women happened less than a mile from here, a lot of …

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — A woman pinned beneath a food truck was among nine people hurt early New Year’s Day when a driver involved in a fight near Madison Square Garden fled from police and crashed blocks away, police said. The 39-year-old woman is in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital, as are si…