By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) -Online travel agency Booking Holdings Inc said on Thursday it set a new record in January for monthly room night bookings, with travelers booking vacations further out than they did during the pandemic. Travel companies including Booking’s peer, vacation rental Airbnb Inc, have reported strong fourth-quarter results on sustained …

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(Reuters) -An ice storm in Michigan in the United States has disrupted internet services and affected power lines in the state, internet observatory NetBlocks said on Thursday. A major winter storm wrecked havoc across the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest with high winds and heavy snow on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of schools to close, grounding …

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(Reuters) -Actor Alec Baldwin entered a not guilty plea on Thursday to a charge of involuntary manslaughter over the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the Western film “Rust” in 2021, court documents show. Baldwin made the plea while waiving a Feb. 24 court appearance that was set to …

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By Suzanne Smalley (Reuters) – Health records for about 2,000 current and former Los Angeles school students have been published to the dark web following a ransomware attack last year, the school district said in a statement on Wednesday. The “assessment records,” which could include mental health, attendance, disciplinary and academic results, were stolen in …

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By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried was hit with new criminal charges on Thursday, in an expanded indictment accusing the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange of conspiring to make more than 300 illegal political donations. Bankman-Fried now faces 12 criminal charges, including four for fraud and eight …

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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – U.S. Justice Department lawyers say that Alphabet Inc’s Google destroyed internal corporate communications and have asked a federal judge to sanction the company as part of the government’s antitrust case over its search business. The DOJ asserted in a court filing unsealed in a Washington, D.C., federal court on Thursday …

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