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U.S. antitrust enforcer says merger wave means slower vetting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A huge increase in the number of mergers coming before the Federal Trade Commission for antitrust reviews is limiting its ability to investigate deals in a timely fashion, the F...
Aug 03, 2021
Police officer killed in exchange of gunfire outside Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A police officer protecting the Pentagon was killed outside the building in Arlington, Virginia, on Tuesday, U.S. Senator Mark Warner said. Chief Woodrow Kusse, head of the Pent...
Aug 03, 2021
DaBaby loses more gigs despite new apology for anti-gay remarks
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper DaBaby was dropped from the line-up of two more music festivals on Tuesday despite a third apology for homophobic remarks he made last month The organizers of the iHeart...
Aug 03, 2021
McConnell warns Democrats not to end infrastructure debate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would urge his fellow Republicans to block an effort to move ahead on a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package later t...
Aug 03, 2021
White House calls Cuomo findings abhorrent, says Biden will address later
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday called findings that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women "abhorrent" and said President Joe Biden would address the issue ...
Aug 03, 2021
EA pins hopes on new mobile games as lockdown boost fades
By Tiyashi Datta (Reuters) - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc's big bet on mobile gaming will be tested in its quarterly results on Wednesday, as pandemic restrictions ease and gamers leave th...
Aug 03, 2021
U.S. Senate Democratic leader Schumer, Sen. Gillibrand call for Cuomo resignation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, both New York Democrats, called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign on Tuesday after an investigation fo...
Aug 03, 2021
Congress’s fiscal referees, CBO and JCT, guide fate of Biden bills
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The future of the bipartisan U.S. infrastructure bill introduced on Sunday and a far-larger partisan tax and spending bill to follow will be heavily influenced b...
Aug 03, 2021
Exclusive: Thales poised to sell signaling unit to Hitachi for about $2 billion – source
By Gwnalle Barzic PARIS (Reuters) - French firm Thales is in advanced negotiations to sell its railway signaling business to Japan's Hitachi for nearly 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion), a source familia...
Aug 03, 2021
Online brokerage Robinhood jumps 29% to surge past offer price
(Reuters) - Robinhood Markets finally on Tuesday got the share bounce that was predicted for last week's much-hyped Nasdaq launch, jumping as much as 29% as investors followed influential fund manager...
Aug 03, 2021
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