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TL/DR - The US government is opening bidding for $850 million in grants aimed at helping small oil and gas producers monitor and reduce methane emissions. The funding is part of President Biden's crackdown on greenhouse gas leaks, and will be available to industry, academia, NGOs, Native American tribes, and state and local governments. The…

TL/DR - Fareed discussed with Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Glenn Gerstell, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, about the potential US ban on TikTok. They reviewed the politics and legalities surrounding this issue. They also examined why…

TL/DR - UnitedHealth Group, the largest health-care company in the U.S., disclosed that a "suspected nation-state-associated" actor gained access to part of its IT network. The attack affected Change Healthcare's systems, causing them to be down for a fourth day. The company isolated and disconnected the affected systems immediately after…