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Twitter has again restarted its account verification process, the company said on Monday evening by way of a post to its Twitter Verified account, where it publishes updates about the system’s status. Since launching the revamped verification program this spring, Twitter had hit a few snags which have forced it to shut down verifications more […]

September 14, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) told lawmakers on Tuesday that the agency was “close” to publishing its report on the agency’s findings related to the Gamestop meme saga that unfolded earlier this year, adding that it should be out “shortly.” “We are pretty close. […]

September 14, 2021 By Sinéad Carew and Farah Master (Reuters) – Shares in U.S. casinos with operations in Macau fell on Tuesday, with Las Vegas Sands Corp down 12.3% and Wynn Resorts Ltd down 12.4% on concerns about stiffer regulations there and a COVID-19 outbreak. China’s health authorities said new COVID-19 infections more than doubled […]

September 14, 2021 By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall NEW YORK (Reuters) – World markets edged lower and the dollar fell on Tuesday after data showed U.S. inflation rose by less than expected, stoking uncertainty over U.S. central bank policy. MSCI’s world stocks benchmark fell 0.53 points or 0.03%. European shares were 0.03% lower, while U.S. stocks […]

September 14, 2021 By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a new version of an election reform bill that is a top priority of President Joe Biden, amid a wave of Republican state legislatures imposing restrictions on voting. Senator Amy Klobuchar and seven fellow Democrats, including moderates such as Joe […]

September 14, 2021 By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – Former Canadian justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, who quit the Cabinet in 2019 after a clash with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on Tuesday said voters should remember he had broken many of his promises. Wilson-Raybould became the first indigenous person to be named justice minister when Trudeau […]

September 14, 2021 NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Open champion and overnight star Emma Raducanu’s New York victory lap included a stroll across the Met Gala red carpet on Monday night, where the Briton took her place among sport, film and fashion’s brightest stars. Twenty-three-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams and sister Venus, four-time major […]

September 14, 2021 (Reuters) – Chinese gaming firm NetEase Inc has downsized some of its studios and projects started in early September amid a regulatory crackdown by Beijing on the video gaming sector, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. The report said that dozens of […]

September 14, 2021 By Agustin Geist SALTA, Argentina (Reuters) – In Argentina’s remote northern Salta province, the silence of the desert landscape is broken only by the hum of machinery pumping salt-water brine to extract lithium, a sign of accelerating efforts to ride the global electric vehicle boom. Beneath the South American country’s highland salt […]

September 14, 2021 By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) – Boeing Co said on Tuesday it handed over 22 airplanes to buyers in August as revived domestic travel fuels 737 MAX deliveries, and received orders for seven 787s even as the program for that jet remains hobbled by industrial defects. The closely watched monthly orders […]

September 14, 2021 By Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) – Global debt rose to a new record high of nearly $300 trillion in the second quarter, but the debt-to-GDP ratio declined for the first time since the start of the pandemic as economic growth rebounded, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) said on Tuesday. Total debt […]

September 14, 2021 By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will be piloting a digital version of the pound within a few years to cut the cost of money transfers, NatWest bank chairman Howard Davies said on Tuesday. Central banks across the world as studying whether to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC), a digital […]

September 14, 2021 By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) – Bombardier on Tuesday unveiled an upscale variant of its strong-selling Challenger 350 business jet, as the planemaker vies to protect its dominant market share and capitalize on higher demand for private flying during the pandemic. The refreshed variant, named Challenger 3500, seats up to 10 passengers […]

September 14, 2021 By Moira Warburton (Reuters) – Workers at an Amazon facility in the Canadian province of Alberta have filed a request with the provincial labor board to carry out a union vote, a major labor union said on Tuesday. Teamsters Local Union 362 filed for a vote on union representation at an Amazon […]

This year at TechCrunch Disrupt (happening just next week), there is more to explore than ever before. From the scores of Startup Alley companies to the Startup Battlefield presentations to the Disrupt Stage, Extra Crunch Stage and beyond. We’ll hear from big name VCs like Chamath Palihapatiya, a16z’s Katie Haun, GC’s Niko Bonatsos, Forerunner’s Kirsten […]

September 14, 2021 By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Tuesday welcomed data showing that consumer prices increased at their slowest pace in six months in August as evidence that inflation would be transitory, citing a drop in auto prices and a deceleration in food price increases. “The story from today’s data […]

September 14, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken appealed to the Senate on Tuesday to quickly confirm President Joe Biden’s nominees for national security-related positions, citing the ever-present risk of attacks. “It is essential that we accelerate the process for national security appointments since a catastrophic attack could occur with little […]

September 14, 2021 By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler took aim at the gamut of financial sectors, from the treasury and equity markets to digital assets, as he mapped out https://ift.tt/2VDwWFo his ambitious agenda before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. As head of the country’s […]

September 14, 2021 By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday called on the Federal Reserve to break apart Wells Fargo & Co, arguing the latest fine against the bank shows it to be an “irredeemable repeat offender.” In a letter sent to the Fed, Warren urged the central bank to revoke […]

September 14, 2021 By Robert Muller KOSICE, Slovakia (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Tuesday condemned prejudice and discrimination against Europe’s Roma people during a visit to one of the most impoverished communities in Slovakia, saying it was wrong to pigeonhole entire ethnic groups. Francis, 84, arrived at the bleak Lunik IX settlement on the outskirts […]