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October 4, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will hold a virtual meeting with left-leaning progressive lawmakers from the House of Representatives on Monday afternoon to discuss a social spending bill, which he plans to make clear will be smaller than they hoped, the White House said. White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said Biden […]

October 4, 2021 By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) -King Abdullah of Jordan said on Monday he had nothing to hide following leaks of financial documents that showed he used offshore accounts to buy expensive properties abroad. Earlier, a palace statement reacting to the leak of what major news outlets called a secret trove of documents […]

October 4, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – After a month wrapped in silvery-blue plastic as part of an art installation, Paris landmark the Arc de Triomphe was returning to its familiar form on Monday as work to dismantle the wrapping got underway. The plan to encase the 19th century arch was originally conceived by the late […]

October 4, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Monday it is following developments in Georgia closely and urged the country to ensure detained former president Mikheil Saakashvili is treated fairly. Georgia’s ruling party won a commanding lead in a municipal election held a day after the arrest of Saakashvili, who had […]

October 4, 2021 (Removes in paragraphs 1 and 23 the description of Reliance Group as India’s largest conglomerate) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Czech prime minister, the king of Jordan and the chairman of a well-known Indian conglomerate were among global figures denying wrongdoing on Monday after the leak of what major news outlets called a […]

Pouyan Salehi Contributor Share on Twitter Pouyan Salehi is the co-founder and CEO of Scratchpad. Homo sapiens is truly a diverse species. We appear distinct from each other based on our origins in various regions of the planet; we communicate using thousands of languages; we have different thought patterns based on our experiences, heritage and […]

Informatica filed to go public late last week, some six years after it was taken private by two private equity teams for $5.3 billion. The data-focused company used its passage through the private markets to execute a move to the cloud, work that came to a head in early 2021, when Informatica announced its dive […]

October 4, 2021 (Reuters) – Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel Securities, one of the world’s biggest market makers, said the firm does not trade cryptocurrencies because of the regulatory uncertainties around the digital assets. “I just don’t want to take on the regulatory risk in this regulatory void that some of my contemporaries are willing […]

October 4, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is reviewing findings of leaked financial documents known as the Pandora Papers, but is not in a position to comment on specifics, State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a regular news briefing on Monday. A massive leak of documents was published by several major news […]

October 4, 2021 By Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Wall Street tumbled on Monday as investors dumped Big Tech and other growth stocks in the face of rising Treasury yields, while concerns about a potential U.S. government debt default offered another reason for caution. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet, the U.S. stock market’s four most valuable […]

October 4, 2021 By Grant Segall CLEVELAND (Reuters) -A lawyer for two Ohio counties told a federal jury on Monday at the start of a closely-watched opioid trial that oversight failures by four large pharmacy operators including CVS Health Corp and Walmart Inc helped fuel the deadly U.S. health crisis. Mark Lanier told a federal […]

October 4, 2021 By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Members of the union representing camera operators, make-up artists and other behind-the-scenes workers on Hollywood films and television shows have voted resoundingly to authorize a strike if they can’t reach agreement with producers on a new contract, the union said on Monday. The International Alliance of […]

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 […]