| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Wednesday, September 8, 2021 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. A powerful quake shakes Mexico, bitcoin is bruised after a chaotic debut as legal tender, and Stiglitz says Powell should go | | | | | Today's biggest stories  FILE PHOTO: Supporters of President Donald Trump in Washington, November 14, 2020 U.S. A Reuters investigation has revealed glaring gaps in the protection that U.S. law enforcement provides the administrators of American democracy amid a sustained campaign of intimidation against election officials and staff. The unprecedented torrent of terroristic threats began after President Donald Trump lost the November election and continues today.
Governor Greg Abbott made Texas the latest U.S. state to impose Republican-backed voting restrictions, signing a law that was swiftly challenged in court and criticized by President Joe Biden as part of an "all-out assault" on American democracy.
Former President Donald Trump endorsed Michigan state lawmaker Steve Carra's bid to unseat Representative Fred Upton, his third endorsement of a challenger to a Republican who voted to impeach him on a charge of sparking the Capitol riot.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes goes on trial today in federal court, with prosecutors poised to lay out fraud charges against the former Silicon Valley star accused of lying about her now-defunct blood-testing startup once valued at $9 billion.
Jamie Spears, the father of Britney Spears, asked a Los Angeles court to end the pop singer's 13-year conservatorship, saying circumstances have changed in recent months.
|  Taliban forces walk in front of Afghan demonstrators as they shout slogans during an anti-Pakistan protest, near the Pakistan embassy in Kabul, September 7, 2021 WORLD China and Japan gave a lukewarm reception to the formation of the Taliban's provisional government in Afghanistan following the Islamist militants' lightning seizure of Kabul last month. Taliban leaders filled all the top posts in the new government, with no place for outsiders or any women.
A fire killed 41 inmates in an overcrowded prison block in Indonesia's Banten province, injuring scores more in a blaze that police said may have been caused by an electrical fault.
A powerful earthquake struck Mexico's Acapulco, killing at least one man and damaging buildings including the control tower at the beach resort's international airport.
French police mounted tight security around the Palais de Justice courthouse in central Paris on Wednesday for the trial of 20 men suspected of involvement in a jihadist rampage across the capital nearly six years ago.
Canada's federal election race is so close that even a few swing districts on the western Prairies, a region usually hostile to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals, may be key to his hopes to stay in power, analysts say. We profile the opposition leader seeking to dethrone Trudeau.
| BUSINESS Bitcoin licked its wounds, a day after its heaviest losses in 2-1/2 months as El Salvador's historic adoption of the crypto asset as legal tender caused chaos online and on the street. Meanwhile, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has threatened to sue Coinbase Global if the crypto exchange goes ahead with plans to launch a program allowing users to earn interest by lending crypto assets.
U.S. payments giant PayPal said it would acquire Japanese buy now, pay later firm Paidy in a $2.7 billion largely cash deal, taking another step to claim the top spot in an industry experiencing a pandemic-led boom.
Ryanair is willing to wait years for Boeing to drop its prices before placing a big new plane order with the U.S. firm, Chief Executive Michael O'Leary told Reuters, while he also downplayed the chance of a deal with rival Airbus. The Irish airline, one of Boeing's biggest customers, has ended talks over a new order of 737 MAX 10 jets worth tens of billions of dollars.
Apple says it will hold a special event on September 14, which most industry watchers believe will be used to unveil a new line of its flagship iPhones.
For Biden to be true to his agenda he should not renominate Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair, Nobel prize-winning economist and longtime Democratic adviser Joseph Stiglitz said in an interview that laid out the case for a remake of the Fed's leadership.
| | | | | | | | | Quote of the day "Folks, we got to listen to the scientists and the economists and the national security experts. They all tell us this is code red. The nation and the world are in peril" Biden tours flood-hit areas | | | | Video of the day  Kuwait starts to recycle massive tire graveyard More than 42 million old vehicle tires dumped in Kuwait's sands have started to be recycled, as the Gulf state tackles a waste problem that created one of the world's largest tire graveyards. | | | | And finally… Sergeant Bee, immortalized in Afghanistan photo, reflects on war's legacy  Thirteen years ago Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic shot an iconic image of U.S. Marine sergeant Billy Bee under fire in Afghanistan. The two men, whose lives were stitched together in a single moment of explosive violence, recently came together again to share their experiences of that day. | | | Thanks for spending part of your day with us. | | | | | |
