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U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission criticized Facebook Inc on Thursday for making "misleading claims" to explain why it had disabled the accounts of researchers studying politica...
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Exclusive: U.S. starts flying migrant families into Mexico far from border – source
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday began flying Central American and Mexican families to southern Mexico in an effort to deter migration by bolstering a COVID-era expul...
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Factbox: CBO estimate leaves U.S. budget shortfall for infrastructure bill backers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congressional Budget Office on Thursday issued its long-awaited judgment that a $1 trillion infrastructure bill being debated in the U.S. Senate will be far from fully ...
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U.S. senators to reintroduce bill targeting Cambodian officials on rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. senators said on Thursday they plan to reintroduce legislation that would provide for sanctions to freeze assets of senior Cambodian officials who undermine democra...
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Indonesian blockbuster IPO to set tone for Southeast Asia tech sector
By Anshuman Daga and Fransiska Nangoy SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The first listing of a multibillion-dollar Southeast Asian tech company in Indonesia on Friday will set the benchmark for IPO hopefuls in a ...
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Silicon Valley workers vote down union at SoftBank-backed MapBox
By Julia Love SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Workers of location data startup Mapbox said on Thursday that they had lost their bid to form a union to represent the company's U.S.-based employees, in a setb...
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‘A cautionary tale’: Louisiana doctors face a different COVID-19 surge
By Brad Brooks NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Doctors in Louisiana have been through it before: the exhaustion, the grief, and the overflowing intensive care units. But this new surge of COVID-19 cases drive...
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U.S. Senator Joe Manchin urges Fed to reduce asset purchases to minimize inflation risks
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin urged the Federal Reserve to start withdrawing some of its economic support in a letter to Fed Chair Jerome Powell in which the moderate Democrat...
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Biden signs law honoring officers who fought U.S. Capitol attackers
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Thursday honored police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol against insurrectionists on Jan. 6 by signing legislation that awarded them C...
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Manulife, Sun Life see short-term challenges in Asia amid COVID resurgence
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's biggest life insurers Manulife Financial Corp and Sun Life Financial on Thursday flagged short-term challenges in Asia as a resurgence in coronavirus cases leads to a resu...
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