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Both networks promoted videos shot within Xinjiang that sought to portray the region as one of prosperity and freedom.

In a separate statement released late Wednesday, Facebook said it had taken down more than 500 accounts after they had helped to amplify posts from a fake Swiss biologist named “Wilson Edwards” who alleged the United States was interfering in World Health Organization efforts to track the origins of Covid-19.

The takedowns are the latest in a series of efforts by American social media companies to push back against Chinese information campaigns.

The S&P 500 on Friday marked its biggest drop since February, and has whipsawed between gains and losses since.News that the Federal Reserve could reduce its support for the economy more quickly, as well as the first confirmed case of the Omicron variant in the U.S.

Oil prices, which have been similarly volatile, fell again on Thursday as officials fromOPEC, Russia and other oil-producing countries met to discuss their production targets.

The Labor Department reported a rise in initial jobless claims on Thursday, saying that claims rose last week by 28,000 to 222,000, but still remaining at their lowest level since March 2020.

It would “keep the White House content and stave off” an additional release of reserves, Helima Croft, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said in a note to clients.

Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that established a constitutional right to abortion up to 23 weeks, “there was little support for women who wanted a full family life and a successful career,” Mississippi’s attorney general, Lynn Fitch, said in a statement in July summing up the argument and announcing that she had filed a brief with the court in Dobbs v.

One study last year compared the outcomes of women who were able to obtain an abortion and those who were denied the procedure.

While pregnancy discrimination has been outlawed, it is still rampant.

Should the court overturn Roe v.

The company denied that it sought to block unionization, and both sides agree that it was neutral in recent weeks, in the run-up to the election.

“I want to congratulate the workers of Canada Goose for this amazing victory,” Richard A.

It began to raise its profile and emphasize international sales after Dani Reiss, the grandson of its founder, took over as chief executive in 2001.

The union vote came after accusations this year that Canada Goose had disciplined two workers who identified themselves as union supporters.

Block will become the name of the “corporate entity,” with Square continuing to be the segment of the company that helps people and businesses process payments, the company said in a news release.

“The name has many associated meanings for the company — building blocks, neighborhood blocks and their local businesses, communities coming together at block parties full of music, a blockchain, a section of code, and obstacles to overcome,” the company said in its release.

Mr. Dorsey has in recent years grown more fascinated by cryptocurrencies and the promise of decentralization that blockchain technology could allow for.

A foray deeper into cryptocurrencies and blockchain could be alluring for Mr. Dorsey, who in his last few years as a social media chief executive spent increasing amounts of time defending Twitter’s role in disseminating misinformation, testifying in front of politicians and receiving frequent criticism from former President Donald J.

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