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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …