About a year ago, Steve Smith stood outside a press conference at a hotel in Sacramento where Uber, Lyft and DoorDash announced plans to spend millions on a statewide ballot initiative that would exempt them from a state law requiring the gig economy companies to hire most of their independent […]
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Sevy Guasch lost his job at a hotel near San Jose and had to go without unemployment benefits for more than six months because he was stuck in an outdated manual review process to prevent fraud. Sevy Guasch hide caption toggle caption Sevy Guasch Sevy Guasch lost his job at […]
Hong Kong (CNN) — China is on the move again. As October 1 arrives, hundreds of millions of people are expected to pack highways, trains and planes for the National Day holiday, one of the busiest times for travel in the world’s most populous country. The eight-day Mid-Autumn Festival break […]
An Indian health worker takes a nasal swab sample of a student to test for coronavirus after classes started at a college in Jhargaon village, outskirts of Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. India’s Health Ministry on Wednesday raised its confirmed total of coronavirus cases to more than 6.2 million. […]
Hong Kong (CNN) — China is on the move again. As October 1 arrives, hundreds of millions of people are expected to pack highways, trains and planes for the National Day holiday, one of the busiest times for travel in the world’s most populous country. The eight-day break is China’s […]
PHOENIX — To its backers, Prenda microschools represents a “return to the one-room schoolhouse” of the past, empowering parents to educate their children in intimate settings away from the cruel public-school bureaucracy. But looked at another way, the for-profit company is reaching for something more contemporary, to be the Uber of education. Anyone can […]
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A single mother of three children, Sandra Bivin of Denver, Colorado, is now being forced to try to survive on $58 per week on unemployment since the $600 per week expanded unemployment benefits expired on 26 July. It is not easy. Before the pandemic hit, Bivin worked as a driver […]
An Illinois truck driver in 1940. Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Today’s network of big-box retailers and online shopping likely wouldn’t exist without the deregulation of the trucking industry 40 years ago this month. The Motor Carrier Act of 1980, passed by President Jimmy Carter, slashed the cost of moving […]
Eccentric antivirus millionaire John McAfee is facing federal charges again—this time, over a pair of alleged cryptocurrency schemes that raked in more than $13 million for himself and his accused band of scammers, including his ex-security guard turned CEO. Manhattan federal prosecutors announced Friday that McAfee, 75, was being held […]
A man wearing a face mask to curb the spread of the coronavirus sits on a bench playing a game on his smartphone as passengers line up to check in their luggage at a quiet departure hall of the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Amid […]
Donald Trump’s so-called big lie that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” has reportedly cost $519 million so far, a growing total largely attributable to enhanced security prompted by the stunning breach of the U.S. Capitol that he is charged with inciting. Taxpayers will have to foot the bill that […]
However, some holiday companies are welcoming the news, believing that it will increase holidaymakers’ confidence, something that is crucial for the successful restart of travel. Rebecca Masri, CEO of Little Emperors, a luxury private members hotel club, says: “I am fully supportive of the idea of testing. At Little […]
Transportation officials said an increased number of Americans traveled through U.S. airports over the weekend, despite pleas from public health experts to stay home ahead of the Christmas holiday. More than 1 million people passed through security checkpoints at U.S. airports on both Friday and Saturday, the Transportation Security Administration reported, […]
Christmas plans for many have been ruined after the Government introduced substantial new Covid-19 curbs yesterday – GETTY Millions of people across the UK have seen their Christmas travel plans undone as huge swathes of the country are placed under tough new restrictions in an effort to stop the spread […]
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. Greg Johnson has a pretty good job — and even better benefits. The Dauphin County magisterial district judge and his colleagues […]
More than 88,000 people in the U.S. – an all-time high – were in the hospital with Covid-19 as of Tuesday, pushing the health care system in many places to the breaking point, and new cases of the virus have been setting records, soaring to an average of over 174,000 per […]
With COVID cases surging across the U.S. and officials rolling out lockdowns and restrictions to stop the virus spreading, ahead of Thanksgiving some Americans plan to flout the rules and celebrate as normal. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises people to only celebrate with members of their […]
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Deep-pocketed investors and veteran entrepreneurs are rushing to bet on Amazon’s third-party sellers. The stampede will change retail forever. Business was booming for Adam St. George when he decided to shop around his four-year-old brand Angry Orange Odor Eliminator. Sold primarily on Amazon, his citrus-scented pet odor remover was racking […]
Deep-pocketed investors and veteran entrepreneurs are rushing to bet on Amazon’s third-party sellers. The stampede will change retail forever. Business was booming for Adam St. George when he decided to shop around his four-year-old brand Angry Orange Odor Eliminator. Sold primarily on Amazon, his citrus-scented pet odor remover was racking […]
President TrumpDonald John TrumpGiuliani goes off on Fox Business host after she compares him to Christopher Steele Trump looks to shore up support in Nebraska NYT: Trump had 7 million in debt mostly tied to Chicago project forgiven MORE early Wednesday defended his business practices as a real estate developer […]
Roblox – Ben Jones/Roblox Teach a child physics and they will stare out the window while you talk. Give a child a video game and they will test out the principles of physics by toppling buildings and slamming cars into each other all day. That was the lesson learned by […]