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FTC to prevent Meta from uncontrollable growth

By Jeff Roper
September 5, 2022
in :  Society

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of tech company Meta, must have future mergers with companies approved by regulators by default. This is what the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) advocates. The watchdog is in the process of filing a case against Facebook’s parent company over a planned acquisition of a virtual reality app. Under U.S. mergers and Acquisitions Law, Meta now only …

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Most cryptocurrencies are junk – JPMorgan Chase

By Jeff Roper
August 31, 2022
in :  Society

Most cryptocurrencies are junk according to JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States. Most crypto doesn’t have a real use case and will eventually disappear, says Umar Farooq, head of digital assets at JPMorgan. Farooq spoke on August 29 during a panel of Green Shoots, a financial technology (fintech) festival in Singapore. This event was organized by the …

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Pandemic stole 300 days from the nation’s life?

By Jeff Roper
August 31, 2022
in :  Society

The life expectancy of Americans is New, reaching 76.1 years last year. Data were still 77 years in 2020, reports the US government agency National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). It is the second year in a row that life expectancy is declining in the United States. The figure is now back at the level of 1996. Native Americans are …

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One of the dumbest COVID measures canceled by CDC

By Rick Culpepper
August 12, 2022
in :  Society

The US health authority CDC, in its latest recommendations, has generally dealt with restrictive measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus. For example, keeping your distance, mandatory Corona tests and quarantines generally no longer make sense, because so much has changed since the virus surfaced almost two years ago, according to Greta Massetti of the CDC. CNN reports that, …

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Biden comes with measures to ease the abortions

By Jeff Roper
July 9, 2022
in :  Society

US president Joe Biden on Friday signed new guidelines to enforce the termination of a pregnancy as much as possible. Among other things, he calls for the protection of mobile abortion clinics at the borders of states that prohibit abortion. He also wants to better protect the privacy of people who, for example, search the internet for information about pregnancy …

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Highland Park shooting: it sounded like fireworks going off, but it wasn’t

By Jeff Roper
July 5, 2022
in :  Society

A shooting during a parade in a suburb of Chicago has killed at least six people and injured 36, US media reports. The 22-year-old gunman surrendered on Monday. The parade in Highland Park was held because of the American national holiday July 4, which celebrates Independence. The shooter had climbed onto the roof of a building with the help of …

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Gender neutral air tickets to be available from 2024

By Jeff Roper
July 2, 2022
in :  Society

Several major US airlines are ensuring that travelers can choose not only the male or female option but also Gender X when booking a ticket by the end of 2024. This is already possible with the airlines United and American, but not yet with companies such as Delta, Southwest and JetBlue. In March, the Biden administration announced that Americans could …

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Almost 300,000 doses of monkey pox vaccine to be distributed in Guam and Puerto Rico

By Jeff Roper
June 29, 2022
in :  Society

The US government will distribute 296,000 doses of monkey pox vaccines from the national stockpile among the population in the coming weeks. The vaccines are assigned to both states and territories, such as Guam and Puerto Rico. The distribution is based on population size and “risk of serious illness,” according to U.S. health officials. Of the doses, 56,000 will be …

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For the first time in nearly 30 years, the U.S. passed a new law to ‘make gun use safer’

By Jeff Roper
June 25, 2022
in :  Society

After the Senate, the United States House of Representatives also approved a stricter firearms law on Friday. Although the law goes less far than originally hoped, it is still the first federal law in almost thirty years that should make gun use safer. The new Firearms Act allows states to get funding to establish crisis centers and other facilities that …

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Proud Boys were punished for what is praised as activism, when it is done abroad

By Jeff Roper
June 7, 2022
in :  Society

Federal prosecutors in the United States have toughened the charges against some prominent members of the far-right organization Proud Boys for their role in the Capitol storming early last year. Former President Enrique Tarrio, along with Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola, has been charged with seditious conspiracy. If found guilty, they could be sentenced to twenty …

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