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Biden administration to rejig HHS to boost pandemic response – The Washington Post
(Reuters) - The Biden administration is reorganizing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create an independent division that would lead the country's pandemic response, The Washi...
Jul 20, 2022
Hundreds protest to demand Puerto Rico scrap contract with power grid operator
SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Hundreds of people marched on Wednesday in Puerto Rico's capital San Juan to demand that the island's government cancel its contract with power grid operator LUMA Energy over chro...
Jul 20, 2022
Ivana Trump’s funeral held in New York, attended by family
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The funeral for Ivana Trump, socialite and first wife of former U.S. President Donald Trump, was held at St. Vincent Ferrer Church in New York on Wednesday. Ivana Trump, a busines...
Jul 20, 2022
Limits on personal data gathering by Google, Facebook, others advance in U.S. House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee approved on Wednesday a bill to create the first U.S. privacy law limiting personal information collected online by companies like Alph...
Jul 20, 2022
BOJ to retain easy policy, staying outside global tightening tide
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is set to raise its inflation forecast on Thursday but maintain ultra-low interest rates and warn of risks to a fragile economy, reinforcing its pos...
Jul 20, 2022
Bitcoin falls after Tesla says it converted 75% of bitcoin purchases into fiat currency
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bitcoin fell late on Wednesday after Tesla Inc. said it has converted about 75% of its purchases of the virtual token into fiat currency. The world's largest cryptocurrency slid 0...
Jul 20, 2022
Exclusive: Shell places U.S. Gulf of Mexico assets up for sale – sources
By David French and Ron Bousso NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Shell is exploring a sale of its stakes in two U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas developments which could raise as much as $1.5 billion for the...
Jul 20, 2022
Dozens of Central American officials added to U.S. corruption blacklist
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Wednesday added dozens of current and former officials, judges, prosecutors and business people from Central America to a list that names those the ...
Jul 20, 2022
Boeing, AE Industrial Partners to launch second venture fund
By David Shepardson and Tim Hepher FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Wednesday it had agreed to invest $50 million in AEI HorizonX, expanding a partnership established with private eq...
Jul 20, 2022
U.S. Secret Service providing some records to Jan. 6 committee, panel wants more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service has begun providing some records in response to a subpoena by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the pane...
Jul 20, 2022
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