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Grain futures were mostly lower Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery lost 16.20 cents at $5.0640 a bushel; May cornwas off 2 … Click to Continue »
Facebook's “rebel shareholders” want to review potential risks that a new end-to-end encryption service could allow for increased exploitation of children by sexual predators – but why wait until now to kick up a fuss? We collectively scratch our heads today in bewilderment at how someone in Victorian times could walk into a chemist and...
Residents of 12 more Pennsylvania counties were allowed to freely leave their homes on Friday, and other parts of the shutdown were lifted, as Gov. Tom Wolf prepared to announce … Click to Continue »
California's unemployment rate soared to 15.5% in April as the nation's most populous state lost 2.3 million jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic that has shuttered most businesses and put … Click to Continue »
Portugal's Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said on Friday that the country's doors are open to tourists as it becomes one of the first European satets to welcome back visitors from elsewhere in the continent. “Tourists are welcome in Portugal,” Santos Silva told Observador newspaper, explaining that some health checks will be introduced at airports...
A Limerick grandmother who survived Covid-19 at the age of 89 has become a “TikTok sensation” on her road to recovery.
