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Cara Therapeutics Inc: * Cara Therapeutics reports second quarter 2017 financial results * * The following table is a reconciliation of the Company's consolidated financial statements for the three months ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, as compared to the same period a year earlier. The Company reported an operating loss of $1.4 billion in the first quarter of 2017, which was primarily due to a decrease in operating income, a reduction in capital expenditures, and an increase in non-
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Agility Health Inc * Agility Health announces appointment of new director to the board, issuance of a certificate of incorporation, and grant of restricted stock. (Sec. 703) Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from taking any action that would impair the ability of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to carry out its responsibilities under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-383; 124 Stat. 835) or any other federal law.
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Carvana is already an innovative way to shop for a car, and it could get better thanks to Car360. The two companies share an interest in improving the car-buying experience through enhanced imagery. Car360’s approach is different from Carvana’s, as it’s focused on photos shot with a mobile device. This approach could allow Carvana to accelerate and scale its operations as it currently leans on expensive DSLR rigs to capture most of its imagery. The deal cost Carvana $6.7 million in cash and issued
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2 percent lower Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto's popular Roundup weed killer, has been found to cause cancer in rats. The study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, found that glyphosate was responsible for 2.5 percent of cancer deaths worldwide. It was the first study to show the link between glyphosate and cancer, and was funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and other regulatory agencies. The
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With China accounting for 36 percent of the global robot market and with its sales volume exceeding the total of Europe and the Americas combined, slowing demand growth in the Asian nation is also impacting global demand. IFR, which brings together nearly 60 global robot suppliers and integrators, predicts worldwide industrial robot sales this year will grow 10 percent compared to last year's 30 percent. Because of the trade war, many global manufacturers "are now in a wait-and-see mode, wondering whether to shift production (away from China) to, let's say,
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In Sweden, one phone call will get you your lawmaker's tax bill. Norwegians' fascination with each others' taxes has been labeled "financial porn". While the Panama Papers have forced British politicians to reveal tax details that are traditionally kept private, and U.S. presidential candidates are under pressure to do likewise, most Nordic citizens' tax returns are freely available. Every November, Finnish media publish the names of about 10,000 of the country's biggest earners, plus hundreds of celebrities and sports stars,
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Boeing Co hired Norsk Titanium AS to print the first structural titanium parts for its 787 Dreamliner, the Norwegian 3-D printing company said on Monday, paving the way to cost savings of $2 million to $3 million for each plane. The contract is a major step in Boeing's effort to cut the cost of its barely profitable 787 and a sign of growing industrial acceptance of 3-D printing technology, which is replacing more expensive traditional ways of manufacturing components. Strong, lightweight titanium alloy is
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A divided U.S. appeals court on Wednesday signed off on the certification of a class of franchisees who say the major janitorial services company they contract with was their employer, rejecting claims that the case could help upend the franchise model. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision disagreed with Jani-King Inc, represented by Faegre Baker Daniels, that 300 of its franchisees in Philadelphia could not sue as a class claiming they
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The multi-dimensional warning system is operated by radar sensors and thermal cameras and comes with a price tag of 15 million won ($13,250) per crossing. Drivers are alerted by the flashing lights, which have shown to be effective 83.4 percent of the time in the institute's tests involving about 1,000 vehicles. In 2017, more than 1,600 pedestrians were killed in auto related accidents, which is about 40 percent of total traffic fatalities, according to data from the Traffic Accident Analysis System. South Korea has the world's
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Amicus Therapeutics Inc * Amicus Therapeutics announces first quarter 2016 financial results and corporate results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016. Fiscal 2016 Financial Results (in millions, except per share amounts) 2015 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964
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Police found the body of Ummar Khan, 35 on Friday on railway tracks in Alwar district, in the northwestern state of Rajasthan. The two suspects were detained on Monday and arrested the next day, said Rahul Prakash, the top police officer in Alwar. "It is a clear case of murder over the issue of cow protection and we have also found that the victim was running a cow-smuggling racket," Prakash said. Khan and two accomplices were using a stolen vehicle to
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YouTube, the Google-owned video platform, plans to launch a new music subscription service in 2016. The service will allow users to pay $9.99 a month to subscribe to a music streaming service, which will include music videos, podcasts, and more. The company says the service is designed to make it easier for musicians to get their music to their fans. It will also allow artists to upload their own music, rather than having to buy a license from the music service provider. Spotify
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After the acquisition, which will be announced next month, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2009. Since then, NAFTA has been the centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy. In 2014, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to oversee the implementation of the agreement. The White House has said that the Trump administration wants to
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Back at the beginning of September, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it had filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Obama administration over the detention of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., alleges that the administration violated the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution by refusing to allow the detainees to be held in a secure location for more than six months. It also alleges violations of the Constitution's prohibition against cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
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Germany is planning a new national transparency register that will allow the public to track how the country handles its citizens' data. The new system, which is expected to be rolled out by the end of this year, will be the latest in a series of reforms to the European Union's data protection rules that have made it easier for companies and governments to collect and store personal information about EU citizens. The new data-protection rules will come into force in 2018, and will apply to all EU member
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OR PROVINCE, Syria (Reuters) - A group of Moroccans held in northern Syria by U.S.-backed SDF forces have returned home, the SDF said, in a rare case of a foreign government taking back citizens likely to have been members of the Islamic State jihadist group. As it nears victory against Islamic State, the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance has had to hold hundreds of captured foreign jihadists in prisons and thousands of their wives and children in camps, often in poor conditions, unable to
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A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit southern Japan on April 5, the strongest earthquake to hit Japan in 25 years. Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors after the powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing AFP/Getty 18/50 15 September 2018 US Capitol Police arrest a protestor as Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the second day of his US Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court
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About a quarter of people behind bars in the U.S. on any given day are serving time for drug offenses, according to a new report from the Justice Department. The report, released Wednesday by the Department of Justice, found that more than 60 percent of those sentenced to life without parole in 2010 were convicted of a drug offense. The vast majority of the offenders were black or Hispanic, the report found, and the majority were white. Nearly half of them were in states where the minimum
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o-door assessment of malnourished people * WHO aims to return on Thursday to its previous pledge to reduce the number of deaths from diarrhoeal diseases by 2.5 million by 2030. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it was "committed" to a target of reducing the death toll from all causes by the end of this decade. It said: "The WHO is committed to meeting its commitments under the Paris Agreement on the reduction of the global burden of infectious diseases
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian will visit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from July 15-16 in an effort to ease tensions in the region, his office said in a statement. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt imposed sanctions on Qatar last month, accusing it of financing extremist groups and allying itself with the Gulf Arab states' arch-foe Iran, allegations Doha denies. "Concerned by current tensions that are affecting
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Nothing is certain about a reported AirAsia (AIRA.KL) order for Airbus (AIR.PA) A321neo jets until it is announced, and everything is still possible, AirAsia's chairman said when asked about the possible deal. Industry sources have said AirAsia is discussing the possible purchase of another 100 Airbus A321neo jets as the airline and Airbus go down to the wire in parallel negotiations for an expanded order for larger A330neo jets. Asked about the deal, AirAsia Chairman
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(It's worth noting that Rimac is already a supplier for Hyundai Motor Group so the two sides are well acquainted.) Rimac's back story is fascinating. The company was founded in 2009 by then-21-year-old Mate Rimac who developed an electric vehicle in his garage. Today, the company is 500 people strong and aside from supplying parts to manufacturers -- specifically high-voltage battery technology and electric powertrains -- it designs in-car digital interfaces, runs a subsidiary-focused on electrics, and develops
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Details: 81% of registered voters either "strongly" or "somewhat" support these features of the deal: a move to 100% renewable power within 10 years, upgrades to grid and other infrastructure, and job training. This includes nearly two-thirds of Republican respondents. Yes but: There are some big caveats here. The poll question only partially describes the proposal, which also includes job guarantees and universal health care, among other aspects. I don't know how that might change the answers one way
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Vox reported Wednesday that former FBI Director James Comey's decision to drop the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state was a result of the "extremely careless" handling of classified information. Comey was fired by President Donald Trump in May after it was revealed that he had lied to the FBI about his interactions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump has since fired Comey, who was appointed by then-President Barack Obama.
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S. denial is a response to the fact that there is no evidence that the US government interfered in the internal affairs of the United States. The Obama administration has been accused of violating the Espionage Act of 1917, which prohibits the unauthorized disclosure of classified information to a foreign power. The act was passed by Congress after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1991, and it was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2003. It is unclear whether the White House was aware of or was
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CCT Land Holdings Ltd * announcement Regarding Disposal Of Shares And Convertible Bonds Of The Company By The Substantial Shareholder * informed by substantial shareholder, CCT FORTIS, that on 16 dec cct securities, unit of cct fortis, disposed of aggregate of 14bln shares * cct securities also disposed convertible bonds with aggregate principal amount of hk$495.7 million to certain investors * convertible bonds with aggregate principal amount of hk$495.7 million which are convertible at existing conversion price of hk$0.01 per conversion share * Board does not
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Along with White Rose, there are three other producing projects off the shore of Newfoundland - Exxon Mobil Corp's Hebron and Hibernia fields, and the Suncor Energy Inc-operated Terra Nova. Exxon Mobil said on Monday it had "safely resumed production" at Hebron, while its larger Hibernia field has not yet restarted. It said it shut in production at the two fields prior to the Husky incident. The combined output of Canada's Atlantic projects is 280,000 barrels per day, a volume that is unlikely to affect oil markets
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Indicated 0.8 percent higher A former employee of Volkswagen's U.S. subsidiary is suing the company for damages, claiming he was unlawfully fired after flagging internally what he alleged was illegal deletion of data, a group of German media outlets said on Sunday. The European media company Bertelsmann is looking for more acquisitions for its music business, BMG head Hartwig Masuch tells Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Up 2 percent in Frankfurt early trading The online retailer aims to grow over the next few years to become the
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday launched an investigation into whether the Trump transition team had colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign. Pompeo said he found no evidence of collusion between the campaign and the Russian government, but did not rule out the possibility that Russia may have played a role in helping Trump win the White House. He also said that Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had misled the vice president about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, and that
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I polled the TechCrunch staff. The following are the features we would like to see in the next generation of these devices. Right now, it's possible to have the Echo and Home control a TV, but only through 3rd party devices. If the Echo or Home had a top-mounted 360-degree IR Blaster, the smart speakers could natively control TVs, entertainment systems, and heating and cooling units. Echo and Homes are naturally placed out in the open, making the devices well suited to control devices sporting
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Lawmakers from British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party, the European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt and EU Council President Jean-Claude Juncker, walk past a graffiti on a wall as they leave the Amiens cathedral, northern France. Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors after the powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing AFP/Getty 22/50 5 September 2018 US Capitol Police arrest a protest
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The farmers' new willingness to pay corporations royalties indefinitely is a stark reversal in Argentina, the world's top soymeal and No. 3 soy and corn exporter. Argentina's 1973 seed law allows farmers to use seeds generated from their harvests freely in later plantings, unlike their counterparts in the United States. Their position spurred a bitter, years-long dispute with agribusiness companies and Monsanto in 2016 decided not to launch its new varieties of soybean seeds in Argentina. Farmers and a group representing seed companies sent the
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6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times while the temperature remains at or above zero. The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that the warming of the Earth's surface has been accelerating at a rate of about 1.5 degrees Celsius per decade since the early 1970s. The increase in global surface temperature over the past few decades has also been accompanied by a sharp rise in sea levels, which have been rising at an accelerated rate. At the same time, sea level rise
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Hurricanes are classified using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale -- a 1 to 5 rating that's based on maximum sustained wind speed, according to the National Hurricane Center. Background: The scale also assesses potential property damage from strong winds, with "Category 3" hurricanes and higher considered to be "major" hurricanes. The scale was created by Herbert Saffir and Robert Simpson in 1971 and introduced to the public in 1973. It was updated in 2010 to solely reflect wind speed and not storm surge or
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Abercrombie & Fitch beat Wall Street forecasts for quarterly same-store sales on Wednesday, as the clothing retailer sold more Hollister apparel during the holidays. In the fourth quarter ended Feb. 2, sales at its stores open at least a year rose 3 percent, above analysts' average estimate of a 1.47 percent increase, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. Net sales fell 3.1 percent to $1.16 billion, but edged past the $1.13 billion Wall Street had expected. (Reporting by Nivedita Balu in Bengaluru; Editing by Sai Sachin Ravikumar)
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I was raised in a working-class neighborhood near Dallas by my mother, an immigrant from Vietnam. I attended the public schools nearby. We had metal detectors, drug searches using police dogs, a vice principal who was shot by a BB gun at a school assembly, and a teacher who was hospitalized after students put staples in her coffee — and that was just at my middle school. I avoided the stress of dealing with drugs and gangs by routinely skipping classes. When I was 16, my high school principal told me that my spotty attendance was
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A fire on Tuesday damaged a museum of natural history in the Indian capital that had scores of exhibits of plants and animals, among them a 160-million-year-old dinosaur fossil. More than a hundred firemen battled for about three hours to douse the flames that broke out early on Tuesday on the top floor of the National Museum of Natural History. "The damage is huge," said Rajesh Panwar, deputy chief of the Delhi Fire Service, adding that some part of the museum was being renovated and that
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The U.S.-specific strategic alliance builds on the success of the United Nations Security Council, which has been a key partner for many years. The alliance has also helped to shape the Obama administration's foreign policy. "The United States and its allies have had a great deal of influence in the world since the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia in 2011 and 2012," said a State Department official. "We see this as an opportunity to build on that momentum and to strengthen our
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Dozens of members of the Saudi royal family are discussing making Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the only surviving brother of King Salman, the heir apparent to the throne after Salman's death, as the embattled Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) continues to deal with the fallout from the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, reports Reuters. The big picture: MBS already acts as the kingdom's de-facto leader and has a close relationship with the Trump administration, particularly with the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner. But reports that
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Wow. Just got this screengrab from a friend. Jefferson Riley, the Republican mayor of Mansfield, Georgia trying to fool Democratic voters. pic.twitter.com/g2JpxdxBUX In response to social media criticism, he begrudgingly deleted the post, complaining about the humorlessness of his followers. "People take things so seriously," he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "You can't joke about anything anymore -- especially on social media." "Anything" is probably a bit of a stretch. But he's right that misinformation about voting, especially by an elected official, is
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Britain has been making progress in negotiations with the EU over the bloc's exit from the European Union. The UK expects to be treated with respect Reuters 6/50 26 September 2018 Members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) search for victims after a building collapsed in New Delhi killing five people, the latest incident highlighting India's poor urban planning and construction AFP/Getty 7/51 25 September 2019 US Capitol Police arrest a protestor as Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the second day of his
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One last piece of hardware from today’s Microsoft event. The company issued an update to what is arguably the most compelling member of the Surface family. The company’s innovative iMac competitor, the Surface Studio got a refresh today, as expected. As with the other products announced at today’s event, things look pretty similar on the, you know, Surface. Like the Laptop, that’s actually just fine here. The Studio’s got one of the more groundbreaking designs you’ll find in a desktop PC. There are a number of key updates from a hardware
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25. However, Twitter's achilles heel remains user growth. It has now slumped to 321 million monthly active users, falling short even of estimates that were expecting a decline. Shares are equally slumping in pre-market trading, down more than seven percent so far. The overall picture may have also not been helped by weak guidance. The company said it expects Q1 revenues to be between just $715 million and $775 million, with operating income between $5 million and $35 million. Even with Q1 seasonal
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Kite Pharma Inc * Kite reports 73 percent of patients achieved mrd negative complete remission in updated analysis from phase 1 zuma-3 CAR-T trial of KTE-C19 in adult patients with high burden relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia * Kite Pharma Inc says plans to initiate phase 2 of zuma-3 trial in 2017 * Kite Pharma Inc says KTE-C19 at two target dose levels (2.0x10(6)/kg and 1.0x10(6)/kg) were tolerable and responses were achieved at each level Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in northern China close to the Korean Peninsula EPA 5/50 28 September 2018 An aerial view of houses damaged by a landslide in Atsuma town, Hokkaido prefecture, after an earthquake hit the northern Japanese island. Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors after the powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing AFP/Getty 6/40 27 September 2017
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly released study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than half of the 1.3 million people in the United States who were diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease in 2009 were infected with HIV. The study, which was released on Wednesday, showed that nearly one-third of those infected were sexually active, compared with just 1 percent who had never been infected. The CDC said in a statement that it was "deeply concerned
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Molecular Partners said on Friday that five of eight patients with advanced multiple myeloma in a Phase II study showed an objective response to a combination therapy that includes an investigational drug from the Swiss company. The Zurich-based company said median duration of treatment for patients who responded to its cocktail of MP0250, its pipeline hopeful, with Takeda's Velcade and dexamethasone was 22.5 weeks. It is now recruiting patients for a higher dosing, in hopes it will boost
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Congress is once again poised to delay the Affordable Care Act's "Cadillac tax" on high-value employer health plans, and many economists are once again disappointed by the decision. Between the lines: Messing with employer health coverage is politically treacherous, and that's why the Cadillac tax may never go into effect. But it's the ACA's main cost containment measure -- meaning health care costs will keep climbing without a check economists deem important. How it works: Most employer-based health benefits aren't taxed. But the
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The Liberal government eased restrictions under its foreign worker program recently for Atlantic seafood processors, allowing them to bring in unlimited numbers of low-skilled, temporary foreign workers this year, The Globe and Mail newspaper reported on Thursday. Processors have complained about a dire labor shortage. Other sectors, notably meat-packing, agriculture and restaurants, have made similar complaints about a dearth of workers. But Employment Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk said she views the shortage of seafood plant workers as unique, so the government made a "one-time provision." "Industry said,
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These products have not been demonstrated to be safe or effective and may keep some patients from seeking appropriate, FDA-approved therapies," the FTC said in its release. Opioids, including prescription painkillers and heroin, played a role in 42,249 U.S. deaths in 2016, up 28 percent from 2015 and 47 percent from 2014, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The opioid crisis has lowered overall life expectancy in Americans. Frank King, founder of King Bio which
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The Southern District of New York announced today that it has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by a group of people who say they were discriminated against by the NYPD. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, alleges that the police department violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to provide adequate training and training for its officers, and failed to properly train its police officers on the use of force. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a number of
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Concern about immigration is on the rise in the United States. The Pew Research Center reported in May that the number of Americans living in households with at least one undocumented parent has increased by more than 50 percent since 2008. Immigration has also been an issue in recent years. In 2009, for example, the Obama administration announced it would expand the so-called Secure Communities program, which allows undocumented immigrants to enter the country without a criminal record. That program has since been expanded to include undocumented
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UK Attorney General Geoffrey Cox is considering plans for a unilateral exit mechanism to the Irish backstop with a notice period of 12 months, the Telegraph newspaper reported bit.ly/2E0XHql late on Wednesday. The "backstop" provision in Britain's European Union divorce deal aims at avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland. Earlier on Wednesday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and British Prime Minister Theresa May said that the backstop provision is temporary. Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker
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Folks riding the OnePlus bandwagon will be disappointed to learn that the company has not yet announced a successor to the Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, OnePlus has no plans to announce a replacement for the original Android 4.4.2 Jelly Bean, which was released in April. Instead, it will focus on bringing the OS into the hands of users who already own the handset, as well as those who have already purchased the device
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Slack, the fast-growing office productivity and communications app, today made a case to be the only thing you sign in to during your work day. Hot on the heels of its latest fundraising and with its attention focused on selling to ever-larger companies, Slack today unveiled Sign in with Slack, a feature that will allow it to integrate easily with other apps in adjacent markets. By enabling a single sign-in for the customers it shares with upstart workplace apps like Quip, Figma, Kifi,
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Indian stock markets opened up on Friday, with investors awaiting details from the federal budget due later in the day, as Prime Minister Modi's government struggles with a sluggish economy and high rates of unemployment. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present the new government's first budget since winning a second term at 0530 GMT. She is expected to boost spending while allowing for the fiscal deficit target to rise. The broader NSE index was up 0.26% at 11,976 as of 0350 GMT, while the benchmark BSE
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The polygamist family featured in the reality television show "Sister Wives" is a close friend of President Trump. According to the Associated Press, Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, met with her father at the White House on Dec. 15, according to a person familiar with the meeting. The person did not immediately return a request for comment. Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, are also members of the Trump family's real estate company, Kushner Companies, the person said
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Lockheed Martin Corp * Lockheed Martin introduces Paragon direct attack munition * Lockheed Martin Corp - Paragon has been successfully integrated on F/A-18 * Lockheed Martin Corp - announced that its dual mode plus laser-guided bomb will be branded paragon * Lockheed Martin Corp - F/A-18 flight testing continues and F-16 test flights are planned for Q2 of 2017 * Lockheed Martin Corp - additional F/A-18 flight testing continues and F-16 test flights are
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CEU has offered U.S.-accredited degree programs to thousands of students from ex-communist eastern Europe for almost three decades. Participants in the demonstration held outside the historic buildings of Corvinus University on the bank of the Danube river, said the academic climate symbolized by the CEU, one which celebrates free thought and open debate, needed to be defended. "CEU represents free education and diversity... I am fed up with what is going on here," said Maria Palmai, 63, a retired bank official. More than 3,500 CEU alumni
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Regulus Therapeutics Inc: * Regulus reports fourth quarter 2016 financial results and pipeline update. * REGULES OF OPERATION (INCLUDING GAAP SAVINGS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS) For the three months ended December 31, 2016, the Company recorded a net loss of $1.1 million, or $0.7 per diluted share, related to the third quarter of 2016. The Company expects to report net losses of approximately $3.0 million
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ased weedkiller Roundup causes cancer are not likely to be as common as they might think, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego and the California Department of Public Health conducted the study in collaboration with researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The researchers found that glyphosate is one of the most commonly used herbicides in agriculture. The herbicide has the potential to cause cancer in humans and animals, including breast
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S. drugstore chains, of deceiving consumers with labels touting how CVS-branded vitamin E promotes "heart health." The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston said the plaintiff, Ronda Kaufman, can pursue a proposed class action accusing CVS of violating a New York consumer protection law, and that a lower court judge erred in dismissing her case. CVS spokesman Mike DeAngelis said the company's store-branded products are designed to be "safe, work as intended, comply with regulations
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WARNING: Graphic photos below Human rights groups say US-led coalition airstrikes killed at least 20 people, including women and children, in Yemen's capital Sanaa A U.S. official said the strike was carried out by forces loyal to the Houthi movement, which has taken control of large swaths of the country's north and east. It is the latest in a series of strikes by the United States, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states against the Yemeni government and its allies.
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South Africa's High Court on Tuesday granted an urgent interdict halting the wind-up proceedings by a provisional liquidator at Vedanta's Konkola Copper Mines (KCM). Vedanta has been locked in a dispute with the Zambian government, which accuses KCM, which is around 20% owned by Zambia's state mining company and majority owned by Vedanta, of breaching the terms of its licence. (Reporting by Tanisha Heiberg and Helen Reid; editing by Jason Neely)
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union antitrust regulators cleared on Friday the $2.8 million acquisition of British airline Flybe FLYB.L by Connect Airways, a consortium created by Virgin Atlantic, Stobart Group (STOB.L) and investment adviser Cyrus Capital. The final approval of the merger, whose details were made public in January, is conditional on the release by Connect Airways of slots for the routes connecting the English city of Birmingham to Amsterdam and Paris, the EU
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KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban forces have taken control of the southern provincial capital of Kunduz, the last bastion of U.S.-led air strikes in Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday. The Taliban and their allies have been fighting each other since the end of 2014, when President Hamid Karzai declared a state of emergency following the death of his predecessor, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who was killed in an air strike on his home province of Helmand in March
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William Burck, a lawyer for Bannon, told Reuters: "The Senate Intelligence Committee has expressed its concerns about Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election." Bannon, who served as chief strategist to President Donald Trump's campaign, has been under fire for his ties to the Russian government. In August, he told The New York Times that he had met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, and that Trump had asked him to help him with an investigation into possible collusion between the
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Some academics who study North Korea argue Kim could be looking for Russia to ease any pain if China, which accounts for about 90 percent of North Korea's trade, steps up sanctions against the isolated country as part of moves to deter its nuclear and missile programmes. U.S. President Donald Trump lavished praise on Chinese President Xi Jinping last week for Beijing's assistance in trying to rein in Pyongyang. A day later, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pressed the United Nations Security Council to impose more
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7 million commercial contract to build and operate an underground "people mover" in Las Vegas. After receiving approval from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, TBC secured the contract in May to build an underground loop system that shuttles people. The initial design for the project, dubbed Campus Wide People Mover, or CWPM, will focus on the Las Vegas Convention Center, which is currently in the midst of an expansion that is expected to be completed in time for CES 2021. The newly expanded Las
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Caesars Entertainment Corp : * This is a non-transferable copy of the game. It may not be resold, distributed, or transferred without the prior written permission of Konami. All rights reserved. No part of this game may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, transmitting, displaying, performing, editing, subdinging, republishing, public domain or any other electronic media without Konami's express written consent
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Acacia Mining on Thursday hit back at parent company Barrick Gold Corp's allegation the miner was an obstacle to solving a long-running tax row in Tanzania. Barrick CEO Mark Bristow said in a results presentation on Wednesday that Acacia was not cooperating, prompting Acacia to demand clarification from Barrick. Acacia's interim Chief Executive Officer Peter Geleta said in an interview that Acacia was "totally committed to achieving a negotiated solution" and laid out what he said was a series of facts. Acacia had already
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CAIRO, April 17 (Reuters) - The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS or ISIL) has seized swathes of territory in northern Syria, including the city of Deir ez-Zor, a Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Saturday. The Observatory, based in Raqqa, said IS fighters had taken control of several towns and villages in the northwestern province of Hasakah, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Mauricio Macri’s preferred candidate was leading former President Cristina Fernandez in an election for a Senate seat in Buenos Aires province, with 24.5 percent of polling booths counted. Esteban Bullrich, Macri’s former education minister, had 42.9 percent of the vote counted compared with 35.9 percent for Fernandez in the province that is home to nearly 40 percent of voters. Reporting by Maximiliano Rizzi and Caroline Stauffer; Editing by Peter Cooney
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The U.S. government posted a $44 billion budget deficit in October, the first month of the 2017 fiscal year, a 68 percent decrease from the same month last year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. This gap in October 2015 was $137 billion, according to Treasury's monthly budget statement. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected an $80 billion budget deficit for last month. When accounting for calendar adjustments, October would have shown an $84 billion deficit compared to an adjusted $88 billion
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LONDON (Reuters) - European markets regulators said on Monday they would not rule on whether the central bank should be allowed to raise interest rates in response to Britain's vote to leave the European Union. Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at a news conference in central London, Britain, May 12, 2017. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth/Pool/File Photo (L-R) European Central Bank President Mario Draghi (2nd L) and European Commission President Jean-Cla
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" The other side: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was appointed by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Justice, has said that there is no evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win the presidency. "There is nothing to suggest that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia," Rosenstein said in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity. "I think there are a lot of things that have to be looked at to see if there was any collusion between the campaign
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U.S. Treasuries added to price gains on Monday on news the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, was arrested on suspicion of trying to influence the 2016 presidential election. The move comes as President Donald Trump's administration tries to shore up ties between Moscow and the West after Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014. The White House said in a statement on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had asked the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Russia for its
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Vladimir Antonov, a Russian banker and former owner of English football club Portsmouth, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for using Twitter to criticize the Russian government. He also admitted that he had lied to the FBI about his links to Russia following the arrest of Russian officials in the UK. Getty Images 6/9 Trump's first 100 days in office were marred by a string of scandals, many of which caught the eye of the Independent's mainier than ever before. The scandals included
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MILAN, April 4 (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firm KKR’s investment vehicle Pillarstone is set to acquire a majority stake in indebted Italian telecoms engineering group Sirti by the end of this month, two sources close to the matter said. Pillarstone, headed by former Royal Bank of Scotland executive John Davison, will buy a controlling stake in Sirti from Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo, which owns around 27 percent of the firm, and a group of other investors,
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s deal on Wednesday to end U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of new tariffs was hailed as a major success by EU officials and other European governments. “Breakthrough achieved that can avoid trade war and save millions of jobs! Great for global economy!” tweeted German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Economy Minister Peter Altmaier as news of the Washington deal broke late in the evening in Europe. “This is a big day for the Commission, it’s a
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The foreign ministers of Russia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, and Turkey met in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss the situation in Syria. The meeting, which was held on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, French President Francois Hollande, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Ukrainian President Petro
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N) to pay a record $4.69 billion to 22 women who alleged the company's talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer. The verdict is the largest J&J has faced to date over allegations that its talc-based products cause cancer. The company is battling some 9,000 talc cases. J&J denies both that its talc products cause cancer and that they ever contained asbestos. It says decades of studies show its talc to be safe and has successfully overturned previous
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Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee was found guilty of bribery, embezzlement and perjury by a South Korean Court, slapping him with a five year prison sentence, according to local news reports. Lee is expected to appeal the verdict. South Korea's special prosecutor's office accused Lee of bribing a friend of former President Park Geun-hye in exchange for government favors, allegedly including approval of a 2015 merger between Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries. That deal consolidated the Lee family's power over Samsung Electronics, according to CNBC. Why
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Nielsen will add Instagram to its Social Content Ratings(r) (SCR) platform, which measures social engagement with TV shows. Nielsen already measures Facebook and Twitter engagement with TV shows. Why it matters: Ratings do not always equal social engagement. SCR ratings help brands and networks understand how their content performs across platforms, which is important given that roughly 70.3% of the total U.S. adult population will regularly use another digital device while watching TV, according to eMarketer. Go deeper: As Axios noted when we reported Nielsen's first social content ratings ever,
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A majority of science teachers across the country are satisfied with their teaching, while in some states, such as New York and California, the percentage of teachers who are dissatisfied is even lower. According to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCEPS), the number of students in public and private schools in the United States has increased by 2.5 million since 2010, up from 3.3 million in 2010. In the same time period, more than
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The Tulsa, Oklahoma-based school did not admit liability, and denied some allegations by the government and the whistleblower Maurice Shoe in papers filed with the federal court in Greenville, South Carolina. "Our higher education system should prioritize the educational interests of students, not the financial interests of schools and recruiters," U.S. Attorney Sherri Lydon in South Carolina said in a statement. Oral Roberts had no immediate comment on the settlement. Its payment includes $151,751 in restitution. The settlement is separate from the national scandal
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While his aides have provided some details on the investigation, the FBI is still investigating whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 election. In a statement, FBI Director James Comey said, "The FBI has concluded that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials during the presidential campaign. We continue to work with the Justice Department and the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General to determine whether there is any basis to believe that the campaign coordinated with any foreign government."
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is slated to hold a press conference on Thursday to discuss the DNC's decision to end its support for Donald Trump. The DNC says it will not accept any donations from outside groups or individuals in support of Trump, and that it has no plans to do so. The DNC also said it would not be accepting contributions from foreign governments, such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, or any other country that doesn't support the Republican nominee.
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Problems at one of its suppliers In September 2013, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved a contract with Toshiba to supply the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The contract was to provide power to the plant, which has a capacity of 1.6 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per year. It is not clear if the contract will be renewed or whether the company will continue to operate the nuclear plant for at least five more years. In February 2014
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Chinacache International Holdings Ltd * Chinacache reports adjusted fourth quarter and full year 2016 results from new value-added tax treatment * On April 17 a Beijing local taxation division notified co it disallowed VAT treatment on certain transactions in 2016 * Recalculated related value-added taxes, revised amount of cost of revenues for Q4 from RMB257.7 million to RMB275.9 million * Q4 loss per ordinary share $0.06 * Q4 loss per ADS $0.96 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Gramercy Property Trust * Gramercy Property Trust reaffirms 2016 guidance and announces fiscal year 2017 results. "We are pleased to announce that we have successfully completed the first phase of a multi-year acquisition of the property and are confident that the acquisition will be completed in the second half of 2017," said Greg Kramer, General Manager of Grammercy. "We look forward to working with our community partners and partners to continue to build on our strong performance in 2017, and we look
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller is teaming up with agents from the IRS's Criminal Investigations unit to look into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to meddle in the 2016 election. Getty Images 9/17 James Comey Mr Comey was fired from his post as head of the FBI by President Donald Trump. The new FBI director will face punishing questioning from Democrats this week over his alleged ties to Russia, and he could face up to 20 years in prison if he is found guilty under oath on charges that include
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India's drug pricing regulator has demanded explanations from 65 domestic and global drugmakers for selling new forms of essential diabetes and antibiotic drugs without its approval. The move could bring penalties for the drugmakers, among them Abbott Laboratories, Sanofi, Novartis and Indian firms such as Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and Lupin, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) said on its website. Wednesday's action is the pricing authority's latest move to tighten control of drug prices, piling pressure on drugmakers grappling with slowing growth
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Aug 31 (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo's ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) said on Friday it would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Indonesia's highest court. The PiS said in a statement that it had asked for a new trial to be held in the case of the death penalty, which has been condemned by international human rights groups as cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment for crimes including rape, torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment
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But perhaps even more damningly, the Justice Department has made clear that it does not want to be seen as a co-conspirator in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. In a letter sent to Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday, FBI Director James Comey said that the agency would not pursue criminal charges against Clinton, who is facing a felony indictment for mishandling classified information. Comey also said he did not know whether Clinton
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However, the parliament voted against a proposal to decrease the amount of credits from well-managed forests, which absorb carbon dioxide, that may be used to offset emissions. It also included measures to support lower-income EU member states. "Today's vote gives a crystal clear signal to Donald Trump: Europe acts on its commitments under the Paris agreement and seizes the opportunities of green growth, with or without you," said Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, a Dutch deputy who shepherded the draft law through the chamber.
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Utilizing a commonly used provision of the Act, the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) have issued guidance on how to apply this provision to more than 1,000 federal agencies. The guidance provides guidance for the administration of this section. The guidance does not apply to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) or the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (Public
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President Trump said in a Twitter thread Friday that China is paying billions of dollars to the U.S. Treasury due to tariffs hours after he reignited the trade war with a tariff spike. This is a claim he's made before, including back in January, when he said it twice during a press conference and on Twitter. Reality check: The tariffs are paid by U.S. importers of affected Chinese goods, not by China's government or by Chinese companies. Importers then either raise costs on consumers, lower their
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Hulu announced Tuesday it ended 2018 by adding 8 million subscribers, a 48% subscriber increase, to a total of more than 25 million. Why it matters: Hulu heavily promoted discounts on Black Friday for its streaming video-on-demand package. Meanwhile, Hulu competitor Netflix had 137 million subscribers as of Q3 2018. Hulu advertising revenue grew to $1.5 billion, a 50% increase in 2018. The average time spent on Hulu per subscriber each
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Money managers last week raised their bets on a price rise in Brent crude oil futures for the first time in a month, according to data from the InterContinental Exchange. ICE positioning data released on Monday showed speculators raised their net long holdings of Brent crude futures and options by 30,663 lots to 230,867 contracts in the week to July 4, the first increase since the week of May 30. Net long holdings of Brent crude futures and options fell to their lowest level in
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