| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Wednesday, June 9, 2021 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. The U.S. eyes a return to global travel, socialist Castillo clings on to a tight lead in Peru, and a world first for bitcoin. | | | | | Today's biggest stories  Police officers are seen in front of Carbis Bay Hotel ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall, Britain, June 8, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson U.S. U.S. President Joe Biden departs for Britain today on his first trip abroad since taking office, an eight-day mission to rebuild trans-Atlantic ties strained during the Trump era and to reframe relations with Russia.
The Senate voted 68-32 to approve a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country's ability to compete with Chinese technology.
The Treasury Department has asked law enforcement authorities to investigate the disclosure of tax records cited in a media report that showed that some of America’s richest people paid little to no income taxes.
The Biden administration is forming expert working groups with Canada, Mexico, the European Union and the United Kingdom to determine how best to safely restart travel after 15 months of pandemic restrictions.
A Pennsylvania man who impersonated Donald Trump's teenage son and other members of the former president's family, and claimed to have once fooled Trump himself, has been charged in Manhattan with defrauding hundreds of supporters of Trump's re-election.
| BUSINESS El Salvador has become the first country in the world to formally adopt bitcoin as legal tender after Congress approved President Nayib Bukele's proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency.
Shares of Clover Health Investments have jumped 18% and are on course to hit an all-time high, with individual traders on online discussion forums pumping up the stock a day after they sent it soaring about 86%.
Global solar power developers are slowing down project installations because of a surge in costs for components, labor, and freight as the world economy bounces back from the coronavirus pandemic.
Ferrari has turned to technology industry leader Benedetto Vigna to navigate the luxury sports car maker known for its roaring, high-octane engines through a new era of silent, electric powertrains. Vigna, a 52-year-old Italian national, currently runs the biggest division of chip maker STMicroelectronics.
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