Your daily look at nonvirus stories in the news: 1. CALIFORNIA SUES UBER AND LYFT: California is suing ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, alleging they misclassified their drivers as independent … Click to Continue »
Airbnb is laying off 25% of its workforce as it confronts a steep decline in global travel due to the new coronavirus.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States had nothing to do with an alleged incursion into Venezuela that landed two U.S. citizens behind bars in the crisis-stricken South … Click to Continue »
Parents have added their voice to calls for an alternative to reliance on traditional Leaving Cert exams this year.
Why has toilet paper run out during the pandemic? Blame the empty shelves on hoarders who stockpiled the plush paper goods. During a two-day period in March, online and in-store … Click to Continue »
Exploration work by a Canadian company hoping to build an open-pit gold mine in Idaho west of Yellowstone National Park was halted following a federal judge's ruling involving its impact … Click to Continue »
The US Federal Reserve has claimed the rise of Nazism in Germany was due to the 1918 influenza pandemic– historical revisionism that may seek to absolve the Fed from responsibility for the fallout from its own disastrous policies. Influenza deaths during the 1918-1920 pandemic triggered “long-term societal changes” that led Germans to vote for Hitler...
