David Barret

October 4, 2021 By Linda So WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. senator introduced legislation on Monday to broaden protections for election workers, their family members and physical polling locations in response to a Reuters investigation into threats against election administrators. The Election Worker and Polling Place Protection Act aims to make the workers who help […]

October 4, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It is critical that United Nations officials expelled from Ethiopia be allowed to return to the country, the U.S. State Department said on Monday. State Department spokesman Ned Price made the comment during a regular briefing, after Ethiopia last week said it was expelling seven U.N. officials days after […]

Dapper Labs, the NFT startup behind NBA Top Shot which was recently valued above $7.5 billion, made an interesting acquisition this morning, telling Decrypt that they have purchased virtual influencer startup Brud and will be bringing the entire 32-person team aboard. Brud is best known for its digitally rendered social media influencer characters, specifically one […]

Founders seeking to raise their first round of capital may feel overwhelmed by the prospect. There is definitely plenty of capital out there, but there are also a lot of startups clamoring for it. To help new entrepreneurs figure out this dilemma, we invited three investors to speak at a panel titled, “How to Raise […]

October 4, 2021 By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Regardless of whether IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva was to blame for changes to World Bank data in 2017 that benefited China, the scandal has dented the research reputations of both institutions, former staff, government officials and outside experts say. The damage from the data-rigging […]

October 4, 2021 By Angelo Amante and Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) -Centre-left candidates are set to win Italy’s big cities in local elections, partial results showed on Monday, with Rome’s incumbent mayor Virginia Raggi of the 5-Star Movement headed for defeat. The results are not expected to have immediate repercussions for the stability of Prime […]

October 4, 2021 By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam KABUL (Reuters) -Taliban government forces destroyed an Islamic State cell in the north of Kabul late on Sunday in a prolonged assault that broke the calm of a normally quiet area of the capital with hours of explosions and gunfire, officials and local residents said. With Afghanistan’s economy […]

In this video, FactCheck.org and Univision Noticias teamed up to debunk false claims, spreading on social media, that were made by a state senator in Texas about vaccine safety.  All three of the COVID-19 vaccines administered in the U.S. went through clinical trials involving tens of thousands of participants each. The Food and Drug Administration reviewed […]

October 4, 2021 (Reuters) – Senator Elizabeth Warren on Monday called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate trading by top U.S. central bankers, including that of two Fed bank presidents who resigned after public outcry over their transactions. In a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler, Warren also cited trading by Fed […]

October 4, 2021 By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Facebook Inc asked a judge on Monday to dismiss the U.S. government’s revised antitrust case that seeks to force the social media giant to sell Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook said in a court filing that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had failed to provide […]

October 4, 2021 CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Canada on Monday formally invoked a 1977 treaty with the United States to request negotiations over Enbridge Inc’s Line 5 oil pipeline, which the state of Michigan has ordered to shut down over concerns it could leak into the Great Lakes. Gordon Giffin, legal counsel for the Canadian […]

October 4, 2021 CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela will reopen its border with Colombia for commerce beginning Tuesday, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said in a state television address on Monday. Venezuela closed its border with Colombia, restricting inbound trade, in February 2019. That came after the Venezuelan opposition, which is backed by Bogota and Washington, attempted […]

October 4, 2021 (Reuters) – The ATP has launched an internal investigation into allegations of domestic abuse against German tennis player Alexander Zverev by his ex-girlfriend Olga Sharypova, the men’s tennis governing body said in a statement on Monday. In an interview with online magazine Slate on Aug. 25, former tennis player Sharypova said that […]

October 4, 2021 DUBLIN (Reuters) -An updated text of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s proposed overhaul of global corporate tax rules responds “to a lot, if not all” of the concerns raised by the key holdout, Ireland, its deputy prime minister said on Monday. Ireland, the low-tax European headquarters for a number of […]

October 4, 2021 LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – The acceleration of euro zone inflation, driven energy prices, is mostly temporary and price growth will slow down again next year as forecast by the European Central Bank and the European Commission, euro zone finance ministers agreed on Monday. Paschal Donohoe, who chaired the talks of the ministers in […]

The European Parliament’s lead and shadow rapporteur for a major reboot of the bloc’s digital rulebook have called for an investigation following the Facebook whistleblower leaks. One of the MEPs has also called for incoming EU rules to directly tackle business models that favor “disinformation and violence over factual content”. In a joint statement, the […]

October 4, 2021 By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s parliament confirmed incumbent Abiy Ahmed as prime minister for a five-year term on Monday, cementing his power domestically amid mounting international concern of his government’s handling of the conflict in northern Ethiopia. Abiy’s party won a landslide victory in June’s election. He was sworn […]

October 4, 2021 SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Europe’s main security and rights watchdog urged Bosnia’s rival ethnic leaders on Monday to end political deadlock and carry out electoral reform designed to shore up the shaky post-war democracy. Bosnia is scheduled to hold presidential and parliamentary elections in October 2022 but needs to pass amendments to the […]

With its subscription-based legal services platform, Lawpath wants to become the Asia Pacific’s LegalZoom (in fact, LegalZoom is one of its investors). Based in Sydney, Australia, Lawpath serves small businesses with services like legal documents, customized legal workflows, e-signatures, business registration, and on-demand lawyers. The company announced today it has raised $7.5 million AUD (about […]

October 4, 2021 Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer issued an apology Monday in the aftermath of a viral video that showed the married 57-year-old in close quarters with a young woman in a bar over the weekend. The incident happened Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, where Meyer was the head coach at Ohio State from 2012-18. […]