After a wet start, planting season is well underway across Illinois. Here's a look at how things have been going across the state.
Released each month by the U.S. Census Bureau, the retail sales report consists of receipts from stores and merchants, incorporating all in-store, internet and catalogue sales. The latest data showed that monthly sales in April totaled $677.7 billion, 0.9% higher than March. Wall Street had …
Bally’s Quad Cities C.R.E.W. team donated and served pizza, chips, cookies and bottled water to 60 Rock Island Academy students recently. Marci Dinneweth, senior director of human resources, also played a game of “red light green light” with the kids.
IowaWORKS will host a health care hiring event in hopes of connecting job seekers to hundreds of medical-related occupations in the Quad Cities region.
DuTrac Community Credit Union will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Friday, July 8, to celebrate its new location at 2770 Middle Road in Bettendorf. An open house will follow the celebration.
Rock Island Auction Company (RIAC), announced last week that its May Premier Auction achieved $28.2 million in total sales, with a pair of Ulysses S. Grant Remington revolvers selling for $5.17 million on opening day of the three-day auction that took place May 13-15.
Moline-based Deere & Co. reported a net income of $2.098 billion on net sales and revenues of $13.370 billion for the second quarter ending May 1.
When Vladimir Putin announced Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the war seemed far away from Russian territory. Yet within days the conflict came home — not with cruise missiles and mortars but in the form of unprecedented and unexpectedly extensive volleys of sanctions by Western governments an…
Australia’s new prime minister was sworn into office before flying to Tokyo for a summit with President Joe Biden. The move Monday took place as votes are still being counted to determine whether Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will control a majority in a Parliament that is demanding toughe…
Gerhard Schroeder left the German chancellery after a narrow election defeat in 2005 with an ambitious overhaul of the country’s welfare state beginning to kick in and every chance of a future as a respected elder statesman. Fast-forward to last week. German lawmakers agreed to shut down Sch…
A military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived Sunday in Indianapolis. It's the first of several flights expected from Europe aimed at relieving a shortage that has sent parents scrambling to find enough to feed their children. Pre…
Russia’s war with Ukraine isn’t confined to Ukraine’s east. Powerful explosions were heard early Monday in the town of Korosten, about 160 kilometers, or 100 miles, west of Kyiv. That report comes from the deputy mayor of Korosten, in the Zhytomyr District in northwest Ukraine. Ukrainian new…
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The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline spiked 33 cents over the past two weeks to $4.71 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says the price jump comes amid higher crude oil costs and tight gasoline supplies. The average price at the pump is $1.61 high…
President Joe Biden is expected to come out with a list of countries that will join an Indo-Pacific trade pact, but Taiwan won’t be among them. The pact is meant to allow the U.S. to work more closely with Asian economies on supply chains, digital trade, clean energy and more. Biden plans to…
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After a wet start, planting season is well underway across Illinois. Here's a look at how things have been going across the state.
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The much-ballyhooed World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos gets underway this week after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There's no shortage of issues to keep elite policymakers, business gurus and activists busy as forum organizers hope those groups try to wo…
With prices across the economy soaring at their fastest pace in decades, you might think Americans would tap the brakes on spending. Not so far. Consumers as a whole are showing surprising resilience, not only sustaining their spending but increasing it even after adjusting for inflation. Th…
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