Author Archives: Syndicated Content
House Democrats discuss tougher antitrust law, some Republicans agree
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel discussed ways to tighten antitrust laws on Thursday, with two Republicans on the Democrat...
Oct 01, 2020
U.S. EPA removes requirement for curbing toxic air pollutants
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, October 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday reversed a Clinton administration-era policy that required major U.S. sources of hazardous a...
Oct 01, 2020
CIA, NSA chiefs opposed release of unverified Russia intelligence to Republican lawmaker: sources
By Jonathan Landay and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA and National Security Agency directors opposed U.S. spy chief John Ratcliffe's decision to declassify and send to a top Republican ...
Oct 01, 2020
UK firms not seeing 'V'-shaped recovery - British Chambers of Commerce
LONDON (Reuters) - Many more British companies reported a fall in sales over the past three months than experienced an upswing, despite the lifting of lockdown restrictions for most parts of the econo...
Oct 01, 2020
U.S. Treasury warns cyber insurers payments to hackers may violate sanctions
By Suzanne Barlyn (Reuters) - Cyber insurers and other financial institutions that facilitate payments to hackers to end cyberattacks risk running afoul of sanctions rules, the U.S. Treasury Departmen...
Oct 01, 2020
Trump's Supreme Court nominee advocated overturning legalized abortion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in 2006 signed on to an advertisement in an Indiana newspaper calling for the landmark 1973 ruling that leg...
Oct 01, 2020
Facebook steps up promotion of groups content in feeds, around the web
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would start promoting content from public Facebook Groups in users' news feeds and in search engine results, defying calls by w...
Oct 01, 2020
Amazon discloses virus count: 19,000, or 1.44%, of U.S. frontline workforce
By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said more than 19,000 of its U.S. frontline workers contracted the coronavirus this year, or 1.44% of the total, a disclosure long sought by la...
Oct 01, 2020
Universal Health Services says its network is being restored after malware incident
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - Universal Health Services Inc said on Thursday that its corporate network is being restored after a malware incident knocked it out for five days. In a statement, the hea...
Oct 01, 2020
50 U.S. senators call for talks on trade agreement with Taiwan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fifty U.S. senators from both parties called on Thursday for President Donald Trump's administration to begin negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with Taiwan, part of a push...
Oct 01, 2020
