By Dan Whitcomb and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -The family of a Black teenager who was pinned to the ground and arrested by New Jersey police following a fight with a white teenager at a local mall has retained the attorney in the George Floyd wrongful …
FBI to form new digital currency unit as Justice Dept taps new crypto czar
By Sarah N. Lynch and Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department has tapped a seasoned computer crimes prosecutor to lead its new national cryptocurrency enforcement team and announced on Thursday that the FBI is launching a unit …
Elon Musk, Tesla attack SEC for ‘unrelenting’ harassment
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Tesla Inc and its Chief Executive Elon Musk on Thursday accused the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of harassing them with an “endless” and “unrelenting” investigation to punish Musk for being an ou…
Higher estrogen levels linked to lower COVID death risk; antacid shows promise addressing symptoms
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review. Higher estrogen levels tied to lowe…
Two U.S. Big Tech antitrust bills backed by publisher trade group
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group representing publishers such as News Corp and National Public Radio wrote to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to back two bills targeting Big Tech including one that would open up smart…
Biden sure Putin will invade Ukraine in days as civilians bussed out
By Anton Zverev, Pavel Polityuk and Polina Nikolskaya MOSCOW/KYIV/DONETSK (Reuters) – Russia’s Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine within days, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday after separatists backed by Moscow told civilians to leave …
Olympics-Figure skating-Valieva tumbles to fourth as Russian team mate Shcherbakova wins gold
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, Chang-Ran Kim and Julien Pretot BEIJING (Reuters) -Russian teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva tumbled to fourth place in the women’s singles event on Thursday, yielding to the pressure of a doping controversy that has ro…
EU launches reset with Africa after pandemic disruption
By John Chalmers and Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The EU welcomed more than 40 African leaders to Brussels on Thursday in an effort to reassert its influence on a continent where China and Russia have made hefty investment inroads, and where m…
Analysis-U.S. Congress may squawk over a new Iran deal but is unlikely to block it
By Patricia Zengerle and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Despite threats from nearly three dozen Republican senators to thwart a revived Iran nuclear deal and the misgivings of some top Democrats, there is little chance the U.S. Congress can blo…
U.S. sanctions on Russian banks are the West’s most potent economic threat
By Catherine Belton LONDON (Reuters) -For NATO members, the most powerful measure against Russia were it to invade Ukraine would be U.S. sanctions cutting off Russian state banks from the dollar according to Russian executives, bankers, and former seni…