A cyberattack on Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT, +2.15% Outlook email software is believed to have infected tens of thousands of businesses, government offices and schools in the U.S., people briefed on the matter told The Wall Street Journal. Many of those victims of the attack, which Microsoft has said was carried out by a network of […]
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Senate Intelligence Committee holds hearing on William Burns nomination to be CIA director on Capitol Hill in Washington 2/2 By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senator Ted Cruz put a hold late on Friday on President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency to pressure the administration […]
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At 72, Jacqueline Mackenzie has lived in nearly every state in the U.S. (her father was in the military and moved the family often), spent six years in Mexico and traveled all over the world. But it’s in Vilcabamba — an Andean foothills town in southern Ecuador — where the retired teacher plans to spend […]
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Mark Brown, the head of the office overseeing the government’s student-loan portfolio, resigned Friday, following calls on the Biden administration to remove Brown, who was appointed by former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a statement Friday morning that he’d accepted Brown’s resignation from the post of chief operating […]
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Student loan servicer Navient NAVI, +2.06% illegally deceived borrowers, parents, grandparents and others who put their credit on the line when they co-signed their relatives’ student loans and misled them about what it would take to release them from the obligation, a Washington state court ruled. The ruling, made last month and released publicly Friday, […]
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President Joe Biden’s proposed third round of stimulus checks could lead to more than 16 million people not receiving a check, according to new estimates. On Wednesday, Biden agreed to a new approach on the proposed $1,400 payments by keeping the same income thresholds used for the first two checks. This time, however, the payments […]
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A neighborhood experiences a power outage after winter weather caused electricity blackouts in San Marcos 2/2 By Gary McWilliams HOUSTON (Reuters) – Texas’ state power regulator on Friday unanimously vetoed a request to cut about $16 billion from state power charges during the final day of the state’s February cold […]
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Walt Disney Co’s Disneyland and California Adventure theme parks in Southern California are now closed due to the global outbreak of coronavirus in Anaheim, California LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California health officials on Friday gave Walt Disney (NYSE:) Co’s Disneyland and other theme parks the go-ahead to reopen at limited capacity […]
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