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By Mica Rosenberg (Reuters) – Lawmakers introduced a pair of Senate bills on Thursday to combat the rising number of child labor violations in the United States, one targeting companies with federal contracts that employ children for more scrutiny and another increasing reporting requirements to Congress. A third bill, announced on Wednesday, seeks to improve …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A few years after graduating from college, Sam Bankman-Fried grew worried he was not taking enough risks. So the son of two Stanford Law School professors quit his Wall Street job and in 2017 started a cryptocurrency hedge fund, setting off a sequence of events that culminate on …

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By Daniel Trotta and Julia Harte (Reuters) – Hundreds of police searched the city of Lewiston and surrounding areas of Maine state for a man sought in connection with mass shootings at a bar and a bowling alley, as news outlets reported a death toll ranging from 16 to 22, with dozens more wounded. Officials …

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By Zeba Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Genetics testing company 23andMe on Tuesday sent emails to several customers to inform them of a breach into the “DNA Relatives” feature that allowed them to compare ancestry information with users worldwide. After a hacker advertised millions of “pieces of data” stolen from 23andMe on an online forum …

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By Joseph Ax and Gabriella Borter (Reuters) -North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature on Wednesday approved a new congressional map that should allow the party to flip at least three Democratic seats in the 2024 election, a major boost to Republican chances of maintaining their narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. The vote by state …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House is asking Congress for $6 billion for a government broadband internet subsidy program used by 21 million American households that is set to run out of money next year. The Biden administration also wants $3.1 billion to further fund removal of equipment made by Chinese telecoms giants …

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