“The View” doesn’t want anyone to sue. The co-hosts of the controversial ABC talk show were forced to issue four “legal notes” during Friday’s broadcast after they discussed allegations leveled at several of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees. The legal notes — which are disclaimers provided by the subjects’ lawyers — pertained to remarks made […]
The US has banned food, metals and other imports from about 30 more Chinese companies over alleged forced labour involving the Uygurs, according to a government notice posted online on Friday. The new restrictions, covering a range of products from tomato paste and walnuts to gold and iron ore, are part of the federal government’s […]
The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly hoping to require Google to sell Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser — it’s even preferred by a majority of Mac users. And this is just one of the possible consequences of a federal judge ruling this autumn that Google is a monopolist. Chrome browser might be […]
MINNEAPOLIS—Grabbing their pom-poms before heading out to pump up the crowd, several WNBA players confirmed Thursday that they have been forced to supplement their incomes during the offseason by cheerleading for NBA teams. “With the season over, everyone in the league is scrambling to make ends meet by getting a second job dancing for the […]
Gary Lineker was forced to leave Match of the Day at the end of the season after the BBC refused to give him a new contract, a senior colleague suggested today. The footballer turned pundit, 63, was ‘open’ to staying and is believed to have offered to take a £350,000-a-year pay cut from his £1.35million salary to stay as […]
After fleeing Uganda, Kateregga Raymond Calvin’s mind is more at ease than when he first arrived in Canada just over a year ago. The refugee claimant was being harassed so he sought a new life in what he describes as a “peaceful” country. Calvin was able to find a place to call home in Montreal, […]
A 10-year-old boy in Navotas City said that his mother and his mother’s partner forced him to sell drugs and would hurt him if he disobeyed. In Marisol Abdurahman’s exclusive report on “24 Oras” on Wednesday, the boy, “Ron” (not his real name) said that the couple made him sell shabu and would also do […]
I am coming from a PowerShell background, and at the moment trying to get my head around Swift Concurrency. My first project as it relates to concurrency is a utility to en mass transcribe audio files, and I am banging my head on some basics. What I am trying to do here is simply get […]
IKEA will pay $6.5 million to a German government fund to compensate victims of forced labor in East Germany during the Cold War. Political and criminal prisoners were forced to produce IKEA furniture in the 1970s and 1980s under the German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) communist regime. The industry practice was confirmed by an independent investigation […]
TNT forward Calvin Oftana in Game 3 of the PBA Finals.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines—TNT forward Calvin Oftana lamented the Tropang Giga’s poor shot selection down the stretch in a Game 3 loss to the Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings in the PBA Governors’ Cup Finals on Friday. It was a close encounter with TNT trailing by […]