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By Reuters Staff European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen makes an annoucement on the composition of the EU Commission College in Brussels, Belgium, September 8, 2020. Aris Oikonomou/Pool via REUTERS BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen expressed strong concern on Wednesday about Britains plans to…
LiveUpdated Sept. 9, 2020, 7:15 a.m. ET Sept. 9, 2020, 7:15 a.m. ET The latest economic and business news during the coronavirus pandemic. Heres what you need to know: The $16.2 billion deal that would have brought together LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuittonand Tiffany & Company, which would have been the…
UAL Board announces plan to add a second Black Director UAL Board also joins The Board Challenge as Charter Pledge Partner to promote the importance of Black voices in the Board Room CHICAGO, Sept. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — United Airlines Holdings, Inc. (UAL) today announced that as part of its…
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — Disney is under fire for filming part of its live-action reboot Mulan in Xinjiang, the region in China where the government has been accused of human rights abuses against Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities. The final credits in the film, which was released on…
Over the course of the pandemic, the biggest stressor for parents surveyed by the University of Oregons RAPID-EC project has been an inability to sufficiently feed, clothe and house their children, said Philip Fisher, Ph.D., the director for the Center of Translational Neuroscience at the university, who is leading the…
Immigration advocates are livid over the Biden transition teams addition of Cecilia Muñoz, a former Obama administration official who was the public face of that administrations immigration policy. Muñoz, who once served as the head of former President Obamas White House Domestic Policy Council, was named by the Biden campaign…
Hulu’s Woke, starring Lamorne Morris, starts with a simple introduction: “Inspired by one experienceshared by many.” As the title suggests, this is a show about realizing and responding to racial injustice in modern America, with some cackling cartoons thrown in. Yes, Woke is timely, it’s 2020, it’s essential but if…
“There are in history what you could call ‘plastic hours,’” the philosopher Gershom Scholem once said. “Namely, crucial moments when it is possible to act. If you move then, something happens.” In such moments, an ossified social order suddenly turns pliable, prolonged stasis gives way to motion, and people dare…
Building a keyboard isn’t a big project these days. Controller chips and boards are readily available, switches are easy to find, and a 3D printer can do a lot of what used to be the hard parts. But engineers at Purdue have printed a self-powered Bluetooth keyboard on an ordinary…
By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopias northern Tigray region is holding elections on Wednesday in defiance of a federal edict that the polls are illegal, intensifying a confrontation between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and politicians who dominated the previous administration. The vote will go ahead as planned, and…
