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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Federal regulators on Wednesday took legal action to block Facebook parent Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg from acquiring virtual reality company Within Unlimited and its fitness app Supernatural, asserting the deal would hurt competition and
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stanley cup of accessThe FTC alleged that Meta and Zuckerberg plan to expand that VR empire by attempting to illegally acquire a dedicated fitness app.Under Zuckerbergs leadership, Meta began a campaign to conquer virtual reality in 2014 with its acquisition of headset maker Oculus VR. Since then, Metas VR headsets have become the cornerstone of its growth in the virtual reality spac
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The chief lobbyist for AT 038;T is leaving the company after overseeing a $50,000-per-month contract for President Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen to serve as a political consultant.In a memo to employees, AT 038;T CEO Randall Stephenson said the company made a big mistake 822
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Federal Reserve kept its key short-term interest rate unchanged Wednesday for a second straight time but left the door open to further rate hikes if inflation pressures should accelerate in the months ahead.Watch in the player above.The Fed said in a statement after its latest meeting that it would keep its benchmark rate at about 5.4%, its highest level in 22 years. Since launching the most aggressive series of rate hikes in four decades in March 2022 to fight in
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stanley cup expanded at a strong pace in the July-September quarter and that job gains remain strong. It also pointed out that recent tumult in the financial markets has sent interest rates 鈥?or yields 鈥?on 10-year Treasury notes to near 16-year highs and contributed to higher borrowing rates across the economy.READ MORE: U.S. wages rose at a solid pace this summer, posing challenge for the Federal Reserves inflation fightAt a news conference after the meeting, Chair Jerome Powell suggested that the Fed was edging ever closer to the end of its rate-hiking campaign. He noted that sharply higher longer-term rates will likely slow the economy, helping to cool inflation without necessarily requiring further rate hikes from the Fed. And he highlighted a steady decline in pay increases, which tends to ease inf
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TOKYO 鈥?U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged Saturday that the Trump administration effort to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons would be fully coordinated with allies Japan and South Korea, as he prepared to travel to Pyongyang under pressure to produce tangible progress toward that goal. In contrast with South Korea, whose President Moon Jae-in has been at the for
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Attending an Asian summit in Kazakhstan, the two leaders sat at the same table, but did not speak to each other.No, I didn ;t meet with him. And no, I didn ;t shake hands with him, Musharraf told reporters.Everyone was desiring a meeting between me and Mr. Vajpayee, he added. I think the wh
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CINCINNATI AP 鈥?A federal court ruled Friday that Ohio congressional map is unconstitutional and ordered a new one be drawn for the 202
stanley cup 0 elections.A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati ruled unanimously that district boundaries were manipulated for partisan gain by Republican mapmakers and violates voters ; rights to democratically select their representatives. The ruling blocks Ohio from holding another election under the current map.The ruling is likely to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the judges ordered that the state propose a new map by June 20.Voters ; rights and Democratic groups who sued Ohio Republican officials said redistricting completed after the 2010 Census yielded a statewide map that has produced an unbending
stanley cup 12-4 Republican advantage in Ohio delegation. Republicans said the map was drawn with bipartisan support. They also pointed out that a new map will be drawn anyway after the 2020 Census.Plaintiffs said Ohioans shouldn ;t have to wait for a fair map.The U.S. Supreme Court is already considering challenges to congressional maps in North Carolina, drawn by Republicans, and Maryland, drawn by Democrats.WATCH: Whats at stake in Supreme Court consideration of redistrictingIn a case similar to Ohio , a three-judge panel ruled this month that Michigan congressional and legislative maps are unconstitutionally gerrymandered, and o
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SAN FRANCISCO AP 鈥?Reddit and its eclectic bazaar of online communities is ready to plumb high-stakes territory 鈥?the stock market.The company priced its IPO聽at $34 a share聽Wed
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FBI Director Christopher Wray and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz appear before Senate committee to answer questions about USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar sexual abuse of her and hundreds of other women.Watch Wray remarks in the player above.The hearing is part of a congressional effort to hold the FBI accountable after multip
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yeezy e in the three patients who have had it so far, but it too soon to know if it will improve survival, doctors reported Wednesday.The doctors were able to take immune system cells from the patients ; blood and alter them genetically to help them recognize and fight cancer, with minimal and manageable side effects.The treatment deletes three genes that might have been hindering these cells ; ability to attack the disease, and adds a new, fourth feature to help them do the job.It the most complicated genetic, cellular engineering that been attempted so far, said the study leader, Dr. Edward Stad
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