| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Wednesday, October 6, 2021 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. Tesla faces an investor test after a big jury award over racism, New Zealand joins the great central bank exit, and is a 'traffic light' coalition on the cards in Germany? | | | | | Today's biggest stories  FILE PHOTO: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is interviewed by the One America News Network during former U.S. President Donald Trump's rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio, June 26, 2021. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse U.S. One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T, the world's largest communications company. Read our special report.
Senate Democrats are set to try again today to extend the U.S. government's borrowing authority to head off a catastrophic default, after President Joe Biden suggested they could change the chamber's rules to bypass a Republican roadblock. So what is the Senate filibuster and why is everyone talking about it?
Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told Arizona's governor that his state could not use federal funds to pay for programs aimed at undermining face mask requirements in schools, and said Arizona could lose funding if it did not change course.
Nearly 840,000 children under the age of four have contracted COVID-19 in the United States, according to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We spoke to the mother of an Illinois toddler fighting for his life as transmission rages.
Missouri executed convicted murderer Ernest Johnson after both Governor Mike Parson and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to grant the clemency sought by Pope Francis, among others, on the grounds that Johnson was intellectually disabled.
|  Taiwan honor guards perform during a national day rehearsal in Taipei, October 5, 2021. REUTERS/Ann Wang WORLD Military tensions with China are at their worst in more than 40 years, Taiwan's defense minister said, promoting a new arms spending package to lawmakers days after record numbers of Chinese aircraft flew into the island's air defense zone. Biden said that he has spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Taiwan and they agreed to abide by the "Taiwan agreement".
Germany's Greens and business-friendly Free Democrats have agreed to begin three-way talks with the centre-left Social Democrats on forming a new coalition government following a national election late last month. The talks will take Germany a step closer towards a so-called 'traffic light' coalition, named for the three parties' colors.
Hundreds of Afghans flocked to the passport office in Kabul, just a day after news that it would re-open this week to issue the documents, while Taliban security men had to beat back some in the crowd in efforts to maintain order.
Philippines human rights groups staged protests to denounce an attempt by the son and namesake of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos to return his family to power by vying for the presidency. Marcos, accompanied by wife and two sons, filed his candidacy for presidential elections in 2022, further shaking up an already polarised political landscape.
German Benjamin List and Scottish-born David MacMillan won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing new tools for building molecules that have helped make new drugs and are more environmentally friendly.
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