PRESS DIGEST- Wall Street Journal - Sept 29

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Sept 29 (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.

- GameStop Chairman Ryan Cohen warned employees that it needs to slash costs to survive, as the struggling videogame retailer ended a monthslong stretch by naming him as CEO.

- A U.S. judge ruled that higher minimum-pay rates could take effect for many food-delivery workers in New York City, according to an order released Thursday, as he considers challenges brought by app-based companies such as Uber Eats.

- The U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on Thursday approved a tightening of requirements around how audit firms obtain and verify outside evidence on their clients, the first major upgrade to such rules in decades.

- Outdoor advertising company Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings agreed to pay more than $26 million to resolve a U.S. probe into bribes the company allegedly paid in China.

- Yelp and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are suing each other over how the review site described crisis pregnancy centers in the months after the fall of Roe v. Wade.

(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)

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