SAN FRANCISCO — Lyft plans to announce a corporate restructuring on Wednesday that will result in job cuts, according to two people with knowledge of the plans, as the ride-hailing company grapples with questions about whether it can make money. The scope of the layoffs was unclear. Lyft plans to inform employees on Wednesday, said […]
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league and players’ union are having “incredibly productive dialogue” on reaching a new collective bargaining agreement January 29, 2020, 6:32 PM 3 min read MIAMI — The Latest on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s news conference. (all times EST.) 1:30 p.m. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league and players’
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The SNP’s Westminster leader read a list of backers for Holyrood’s plans for Scottish immigration proposals. Ian Blackford said it would “grow our economy and protect public services” as he called for “a tailored migration policy for Scotland”. Boris Johnson said Westminster’s points-based system would “deliver the immigration this country needs” and he called on
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Britain’s departure from the European Union has been backed by European lawmakers, after a debate that mixed warm words of love with hard-headed warnings to the country not to seek too many concessions during upcoming trade talks on a future relationship By RAF CASERT Associated Press January 29, 2020, 5:57 PM 4 min read BRUSSELS
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Image copyright Getty Images There have been two potential cases of e-cigarette- or vaping-related lung injury (EVALI) in the UK in the past year, in which both patients died. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is currently investigating the deaths. It has also received 20 reports of serious adverse reactions to vaping. Public health
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Michael Bloomberg said he hasn’t spoken to President Donald Trump in more than three years, but their last conversation was a doozy. On “The Tonight Show” Tuesday, the Democratic presidential candidate recalled a request by Trump to call him after he’d been elected in 2016. Bloomberg obliged. So when Trump asked Bloomberg what he should
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Donald Trump speaks ahead of the USMCA signing US President Donald Trump has formally signed a new trade pact with Mexico and Canada, bringing his campaign promise to replace the three countries’ existing deal closer to fruition. The US Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) is set to replace the 1994
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NASA is pulling the plug on one of its great space observatories By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer January 29, 2020, 5:17 PM 3 min read CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is pulling the plug on one of its great observatories — the Spitzer Space Telescope — after 16 years of scanning the universe with
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LOS ANGELES — The helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant didn’t have a long-recommended warning system to alert the pilot he was too close to the ground, but it is not clear whether it would have averted the foggy-weather crash, investigators and other experts say. At issue is what’s known as a Terrain Awareness and Warning System,
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President Trump on Wednesday signed his revised North American trade pact, a triumphant fulfillment of a critical campaign promise and proof of legislative accomplishment during an impeachment trial. But Mr. Trump appeared instead to be focused on the trial in the Senate, tweeting nearly a dozen times ahead of the signing ceremony about the trial
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