By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – The indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried is trying to stay out of jail for disclosing too much to the press, and enlisted one of the foremost American constitutional law experts for help. Laurence Tribe, the longtime Harvard Law School professor, in a Tuesday night court filing …
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(Reuters) -Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday sued a nonprofit that fights hate speech and disinformation, accusing it of asserting false claims and encouraging advertisers to pause investment on the platform. U.S. media reported earlier that Elon Musk-owned X had sent a letter to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) …
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) -Quest Diagnostics on Monday launched the first direct-to-consumer blood test to detect abnormal levels of beta amyloid, a key Alzheimer’s disease protein that can appear years before dementia symptoms arise. The $399 test, called AD-Detect, uses the same technology as a blood test the company began selling for use by …
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(Reuters) -Six people were killed in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk city and a village in Zaporizhzhia region, Russian news agencies reported on Monday, citing local officials and emergency services. According to TASS news agency, three people had been killed and 11 injured in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk. In a statement posted on Telegram, Denis Pushilin, …
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By Julie Steenhuysen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Groundbreaking treatments for Alzheimer’s disease that work by removing a toxic protein called beta amyloid from the brain may benefit whites more than Black Americans, whose disease may be driven by other factors, leading Alzheimer’s experts told Reuters. The two drugs – Leqembi, from partner biotech firms Eisai …
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By Jesse Winter OSOYOOS, British Columbia (Reuters) -An evacuation order for the Canadian town of Osoyoos and its surrounding district in the province of British Columbia had been issued late Saturday night due to an out-of-control wildfire that has crossed the border from the U.S. state of Washington. The wildfire, called Eagle Bluff, is approximately …
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BOGOTA (Reuters) -Nicolas Petro, son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, has been arrested as part of an investigation into money laundering and illicit enrichment, the attorney general’s office said early on Saturday. The younger Petro, a politician in Atlantico province, had welcomed the investigation when it began in March and has previously called accusations that …
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(Reuters) – Social media platform X reinstated account of Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, on Saturday, after it was suspended nearly eight months ago because the rapper had violated the platform’s rules prohibiting incitement to violence. Ye’s account now shows his last post from Dec. 1, a day prior to when his …
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By Ardee NAPOLITANO and Clotaire Achi PARIS (Reuters) – Booksellers along the river Seine say the Olympics threaten to erase a symbol of Paris, after they were told by local authorities that they will have to remove their stalls for the Summer Games opening ceremony in 2024 for security reasons. Around 570 of the famous …
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By John O’Donnell FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Long before Europe faced its debt crisis, Sweden struggled through its own 1990s property crash. Now the country is preparing to use an old playbook to contain its problems. Sweden first embraced property in the mid-1980s, when the country scrapped strict limits on lending, triggering a free for all …
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