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UnitedHealth CEO Defends Change Healthcare Deal After Hack

UnitedHealth Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018e-e7b2-d583-afbf-e7feaa930001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Andrew Witty said the cyberattack that interrupted payments throughout the health-care system for weeks would have been harder to recover from if UnitedHealth didn’t own the company that hackers targeted.

Biden Effort to Protect Abortion Patient Files Clears Review

A Biden administration final rule seeking to better protect reproductive rights under federal health privacy law has cleared review by the White House Office of Management and Budget and can be issued at any time.

Meta, FTC Agree to Pause Challenge to Agency Constitutionality

Meta Platforms Inc. and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to stay proceedings in a case challenging the agency’s constitutionality pending a decision by the Supreme Court in a similar case involving the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Guidetoinsure Beats Junk Call Suit on State, Area Code Mismatch

Guidetoinsure LLC defeated a proposed class action alleging it made telemarketing calls in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, when a federal court said the lead plaintiff didn’t show the Utah-based company had purposefully directed its calls towards California.

SEC Targets Staff’s Texting, Nixes WhatsApp on Work Phones

The <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://news/topics/SEC","_id":"0000018e-e989-d583-afbf-ebdd34870000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">US Securities and Exchange Commission has blocked third-party messaging apps and texts from employees’ work mobile phones, bringing its own practices closer to the standards it’s enforcing for the industry.

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TikTok Faces Washington Reckoning as Divest-or-Ban Vote Nears

TikTok is heading to its moment of truth in Washington, with Congress on a fast track to approve a bill aimed at forcing the social-media platform’s Chinese parent <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1774397D%20CH%20Equity","_id":"0000018e-ef2f-d583-afbf-efffc6480000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">ByteDance Ltd. to divest its controversial ownership stake.

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