Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. Treasury warns cyber insurers payments to hackers may violate sanctions
By Suzanne Barlyn (Reuters) - Cyber insurers and other financial institutions that facilitate payments to hackers to end cyberattacks risk running afoul of sanctions rules, the U.S. Treasury Departmen...
Oct 01, 2020
Trump’s Supreme Court nominee advocated overturning legalized abortion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in 2006 signed on to an advertisement in an Indiana newspaper calling for the landmark 1973 ruling that leg...
Oct 01, 2020
Facebook steps up promotion of groups content in feeds, around the web
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would start promoting content from public Facebook Groups in users' news feeds and in search engine results, defying calls by w...
Oct 01, 2020
Amazon discloses virus count: 19,000, or 1.44%, of U.S. frontline workforce
By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said more than 19,000 of its U.S. frontline workers contracted the coronavirus this year, or 1.44% of the total, a disclosure long sought by la...
Oct 01, 2020
Universal Health Services says its network is being restored after malware incident
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - Universal Health Services Inc said on Thursday that its corporate network is being restored after a malware incident knocked it out for five days. In a statement, the hea...
Oct 01, 2020
50 U.S. senators call for talks on trade agreement with Taiwan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fifty U.S. senators from both parties called on Thursday for President Donald Trump's administration to begin negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with Taiwan, part of a push...
Oct 01, 2020
Teenager Burel lifts French spirits in Paris
By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Less than a year ago, Clara Burel was playing tennis with foam balls following a wrist injury, but on Thursday the teenager became the youngest French woman in 12 ye...
Oct 01, 2020
From hungry squirrels to cyberattacks, exchange outages roil markets
By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) - Trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was brought to a standstill by a hardware failure on Thursday, in the worst-ever outage for the world's third-largest equity ma...
Oct 01, 2020
U.S. oil producers on pace for most bankruptcies since last oil downturn
By Jessica Resnick-Ault and Arathy S Nair NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oasis Petroleum Inc and Lonestar Resources US Inc's bankruptcy filings are the latest in a slew of restructurings that put oil-and-gas pr...
Oct 01, 2020
Coal baron Murray seeks U.S. benefits to treat his black lung disease – report
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. coal baron Robert Murray, whose company Murray Energy filed for bankruptcy last year, has applied for federal benefits to treat his black lung disease ...
Oct 01, 2020
