Oct 15 (Reuters) - Alphabet-owned YouTube was down for over 320,000 users in the United States on Wednesday evening, according to Downdetector. As of 7:47 p.m. ET, 321,990 users reported issues with YouTube, per Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The actual number of affected users...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A woman who says she was abused by the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sued Bank of America ( BAC ) and the Bank of New York Mellon ( BK ) on Wednesday, alleging the banks knowingly provided financial services that enabled his sex trafficking operation for years. Bank of America ( BAC ) and...

* Woman known as Jane Doe seeks damages from banks over Epstein ties * Doe's lawyers secured settlements from JPMorgan ( JPM ), Deutsche Bank * Epstein case causes political headache for Trump administration (Adds BNY declined to comment in paragraph 2) By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Reuters) - A woman who says she was abused by the...

SEOUL (Reuters) -Shares of South Korean chipmaker Samsung Electronics ( SSNLF ) rose as much as 2% on Thursday to an all-time high on investor optimism surrounding the semiconductor industry. Shares of the world's leading memory chip maker were up 0.95% at 95,900 won ($67.52) per share as of 0022 GMT, after hitting a record 96,900 won earlier in the...