By Reuters U.S. energy executives have retained such lavish payouts even as they have struggled for years to deliver shareholder returns – despite massive growth in domestic shale oil production. Now executives’ compensation is being insulated from the pain of the worst energy crisis in four decades, caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Stay-at-home orders to […]
By Madeline Sponsler, FISM News Over the past few months, Twitter made a dramatic shift to their modus operandum by adding warning labels signaling fact checks to tweets flagged for misinformation. Until recently, the tech company has taken more of a hands-off approach, in particular, to world leaders’ and high profile users’ tweeting. In March, […]
By Reuters SpaceX, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s private rocket company, was scheduled to launch two Americans into orbit on Wednesday from Florida on a mission that would mark the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was due to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center […]
By Reuters U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had certified on Wednesday that Hong Kong no longer warrants special treatment under U.S. law as it did when it was under British rule, a potentially big blow to its status as a major financial hub. Pompeo’s certification to the U.S. Congress follows China’s announcement […]
By Reuters European governments are halting the use of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients, and a second global trial of it was suspended. The moves by France, Italy and Belgium followed a World Health Organization decision on Monday to pause a large trial of hydroxychloroquine due to safety concerns. A UK regulator said […]
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday called on authorities to criminally charge a white police officer who knelt on an African-American man’s neck shortly before he died at a hospital. Frey said the Minnesota District Attorney for Hennepin County, where the city is located, should press charges after the officer along with three others were […]
