[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Uber and Lyft together are spending nearly $100 million on a November California ballot initiative to overturn a state law that would compel them to classify drivers as employees. Under the existing law the two ride-hailing companies would each face more than $392 million in annual payroll taxes and workers’ compensation costs even […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Vista Outdoor said late last month it would buy some parts of U.S. gunmaker Remington’s ammunition and accessories businesses for about $81 million dollars. Remington in July filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years as it faced financial troubles partly because some retailers placed restrictions on gun […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Huaneng Group, one of five big Chinese state utilities, is building a $1.9 billion 4 gigawatt coal and power project in the northwestern region with the aim of delivering its electricity to the east of the country.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Belgium’s new premier arrived for a European Union summit fresh from his swearing-in ceremony, and said his country finally had a proper government after 652 days. Alexander De Croo, a Flemish liberal who had served as acting finance minister in the caretaker government since an inconclusive election 16 months ago, was sworn in […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reversed a Clinton administration-era policy that required major U.S. sources of hazardous air pollution like arsenic and lead to maintain pollution control technology throughout the lifetime of their operation, enabling them to meet less stringent standards.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine for identifying the Hepatitis C virus, in work spanning decades that has helped to limit the spread of the fatal disease and develop antiviral drugs to cure it. The discoveries by scientists Harvey Alter, Charles Rice and Michael Houghton meant there […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The CDC said that many traditional Halloween activities could be high-risk for spreading viruses and outlined several safer, alternative ways to participate in a note on holiday celebrations.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] According to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, The Church of England failed to protect children from sexual predators within its ranks for decades, allowing abusers to hide in an attempt to defend its own reputation rather than following its duty to protect young people.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Paraguay’s Congress declared a national emergency as forest fires raged, burning vast swaths of the Chaco dry forest, home to sprawling cattle ranches, jaguars and many indigenous tribes. The emergency declaration boosts funds for fire-fighting and opens the door to requesting international aid to tame the blazes.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil. The tally of infections climbed to 6.47 million after a daily increase in cases of over 79,000.
