PRESS DIGEST- Wall Street Journal - Oct 6

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Oct 6 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- Representatives of Elon Musk and Twitter Inc are still grappling with terms of an agreement that would enable his purchase of the social-media company to proceed, continuing a months-long drama surrounding the fate of the blockbuster deal.

- The Biden administration is preparing to scale down sanctions on Venezuela's authoritarian regime to allow Chevron Corp to resume pumping oil there, paving the way for a potential reopening of U.S. and European markets to oil exports from Venezuela.

- A San Francisco jury has found Uber Technologies Inc's former chief security officer Joseph Sullivan guilty of criminal obstruction charges for failing to report a 2016 cyber intrusion to federal authorities.

- Tyson Foods Inc is closing several of its corporate offices across the country as rising costs pressure the meat giant's bottom line after two years of soaring profit margins.

- SpaceX blasted another crew toward the International Space Station, launching a group that includes a Russian cosmonaut amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Russia. (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)

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