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U.S. Congress to honor officers who fought Capitol attackers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress on Tuesday agreed to award Congressional Gold Medals to police officers who fought rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the day after authorities disclosed that t...
Aug 03, 2021
Reactions to report Gov. Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, broke laws
(Reuters) -Politicians and former aides responded to the news of the New York attorney general's finding that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and violated federal and state laws...
Aug 03, 2021
U.S. overnight repo rate elevated after Monday’s funding pressure
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. overnight repurchase rate was elevated on Tuesday after funding pressures the previous session saw the general collateral (GC) repo rate climb...
Aug 03, 2021
Kaseya ransomware attack sets off race to hack service providers -researchers
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A ransomware attack in July that paralyzed as many as 1,500 organizations by compromising tech-management software from a company called Kaseya has set off a r...
Aug 03, 2021
WHO’s pandemic project faces cash crunch amid vaccine, oxygen shortages
By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking $11.5 billion in urgent funding to fight the more infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus, a draft report ...
Aug 03, 2021
As Delta surges, U.S. military braces for mandatory COVID-19 vaccines
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - During his last days before dying from COVID-19, 26-year-old Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Cody Myers played a breathing game with himself at a Flo...
Aug 03, 2021
Explainer-Think global, spend local: public deals shielded amid pandemic
By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Governments and local authorities around the world have for decades put domestic companies first in the massive public procurement decisions they make with ta...
Aug 03, 2021
From comforter-in-chief to persona non grata: Cuomo’s stunning fall
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -For much of last year, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was perhaps the most trusted politician in America; his daily televised coronavirus briefings, accompanied by a PowerPoint...
Aug 03, 2021
U.K. considers blocking Nvidia’s $40 billion takeover deal for Arm – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - The UK government is considering blocking chip designer Nvidia Corp's $40 billion acquisition of British peer Arm Ltd on potential national security risks, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesd...
Aug 03, 2021
U.S. SEC Chair Gensler calls on Congress to help rein in crypto ‘Wild West’
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday called on Congress to give the agency more authority to better police cryptocurrency ...
Aug 03, 2021
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