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September 29, 2021 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -U.S. and Mexican officials will hold high-level security talks on Oct. 8, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland would participate in the talks in Mexico City, Ebrard said. “The […]

September 29, 2021 By Suleiman Al-Khalidi JABER CROSSING, Jordan (Reuters) -Jordan fully reopened its main border crossing with Syria on Wednesday in a move to boost the countries’ struggling economies and reinforce a push by Arab states to reintegrate Syria after shunning it during its civil war. Syrian trucks waited to enter Jordan at the […]

September 29, 2021 By Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) -U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan discussed securing “tangible and lasting improvements” in human rights with Egypt’s president and other top officials during a visit to Cairo on Wednesday, a senior U.S. official said. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Sullivan also agreed to intensify cooperation over upcoming […]

September 29, 2021 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc has reached a settlement with two former employees who said they were terminated last year after they criticized the working conditions at the e-commerce giant’s warehouses, CNBC reported on Wednesday. The terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed, according to the report, which cited an announcement from […]

September 29, 2021 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday suspended the father of Britney Spears from his 13-years-long role as the controller of the singer’s business affairs. “The current situation is not tenable. It reflects a toxic environment which requires the suspension of Jamie Spears effective today,” Los Angeles Superior Court […]

September 29, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee has issued 11 subpoenas in its investigation of Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the panel said in a statement on Wednesday. Former Trump campaign official Katrina Pierson was among the 11 subpoenaed for records and for testimony at depositions, the statement […]

September 29, 2021 Injured Las Vegas Raiders defensive tackle Gerald McCoy tested positive for a banned substance, an admission he made Wednesday afternoon with a qualifier. McCoy, lost for the season in the season with a torn ACL, issued an apology via social media but described his positive test as an “honest mistake.” “I love […]

September 29, 2021 By David Shepardson (Reuters) – Facebook Inc plans to highlight internal research that shows teenage girls felt better after using its Instagram app during a Senate hearing to be held on Thursday, according to the company’s prepared testimony seen by Reuters. The social media giant has been under fire for the past […]

September 29, 2021 By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted on Wednesday to approve three bills to stop practices drugmakers use to raise prices and fend off competition, including a bill to ban the tactic of paying generic companies to delay bringing cheaper versions of their medicines to market. While […]

After a decade of a handful of dominant social media companies trading what are essentially publishing tools in exchange for serving us all an endless deluge of ads, the winds of change are finally blowing — in a few different directions at once. Content creators (arguably either a special echelon of influencers or anyone who […]

September 29, 2021 By David Lawder and Nandita Bose PITTSBURGH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and European Union agreed on Wednesday to deepen transatlantic cooperation to strengthen semiconductor supply chains, curb China’s non-market trade practices and take a more unified approach to regulating big, global technology firms. Launching a new forum, the U.S.-EU Trade and […]

September 29, 2021 By Jill Serjeant and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Britney Spears case returns to court on Wednesday after a summer of surprise turns, shocking allegations, an engagement and mounting expectations that the 13-year-old legal arrangement that controls the singer’s life will soon end. After years of glacial progress, the past […]

September 29, 2021 By Valerie Volcovici and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. congressional Democrats are considering including the first federal fee to tackle plastic pollution in the multitrillion-dollar reconciliation bill, a proposal that is drawing opposition from the plastics and petrochemical industry. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Tom Suozzi are in talks with other […]

September 29, 2021 SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed a willingness to restore severed inter-Korean hotlines starting October, state news agency KCNA reported on Thursday. (Reporting by Sangmi Cha; Editing by Leslie Adler) Source Link N.Korea’s Kim expresses willingness to restore inter-Korean hotline -KCNA David Barret

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for September 29, 2021. Welcome to what feels like fall on the East Coast of the United States. Yes, the seasons are changing, but the technology […]

The Federal Aviation Administration has closed its ‘mishap investigation’ into the July 11 flight of Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and three others, the space tourism company’s first dedicated passenger trip. Future flights will reserve a greater volume of airspace and the company promises better communication, but other than that the company is clear to […]

September 29, 2021 By Aida Pelaez-Fernandez and Inti Landauro MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s inflation surged to a 13-year-high in September as consumer prices rose a higher than expected 4% year-on-year, official data showed on Wednesday, adding pressure on the European Central Bank to potentially tighten its policy. The highest reading since September 2008, when the rate […]

September 29, 2021 (Reuters) – Gasoline stations running dry in Britain. Power costs surging in the European Union ahead of winter. Forced restrictions on energy use in China. And rising prices for oil, natural gas and coal. You would be forgiven if these events made you believe the world had suddenly been stricken by a […]

September 29, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. regulator on Wednesday charged a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc senior compliance analyst with insider trading, saying he made illegal trades involving banking clients while working in Warsaw, Poland. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Jose Luis Casero Sanchez, 35, of Spain, […]

September 29, 2021 By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) -United Airlines said on Tuesday nearly 600 U.S.-based employees faced termination after failing to comply with the carrier’s vaccination policy. In early August, the company became the first U.S. carrier to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all domestic employees, requiring proof of vaccination by Monday. The carrier […]