Uber axes nearly a THIRD of its staff: CEO confirms ANOTHER 3,000 job cuts in email to employees – as rides drop 80% due to coronavirus Dara Khosrowshahi confirmed to employees on Monday that 45 offices were closing The closures mean another 3,000 staff around the world will be laid off In the first week … Read more
An explosion Saturday at a hash oil manufacturer in downtown Los Angeles injured 11 firefighters who had gone inside the building after an initial report of a fire and then had to run for their lives when a ball of flame shot out the building that was so intense it scorched a fire parked truck … Read more
Twenty fire engines and 125 firefighters tackle huge fire on an industrial estate in east London Officers were called to a single storey warehouse on Alfreds Way on Friday Fire crews from Barking, East Ham, Dagenham, Plaistow, Ilford at the scene Twenty fire engines and around 125 firefighters are tacking the fire this evening By … Read more
Donald Trump ramps up attacks on China by banning mobile giant Huawei from access to American technology – risking retaliation against Apple By Afp and Reuters Published: 16:42 BST, 15 May 2020 | Updated: 17:00 BST, 15 May 2020 U.S. officials moved Friday to cut off Chinese tech giant Huawei from global chipmakers, ramping up … Read more
Mike Pence was a career Army intelligence officer who served in Afghanistan and Iraq and was still in uniform as a three-star general when he became Barack Obama’s head of Defense Intelligence in July 2012. But he fell out badly with the Obama administration, was forced out in July 2014 and moved into private intelligence … Read more
Vice President Mike Pence was spotted at the White House on Tuesday wearing a face mask amid concerns about a coronavirus cluster at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Pence made a ‘personal decision’ to stay away from President Donald Trump after a coronavirus outbreak on his staff, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Tuesday. ‘The vice … Read more
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the coronavirus pandemic was the worst ‘attack’ the U.S. has ever seen. Speaking in the Oval Office, the president said it was worse than some of biggest attacks in American history: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II and the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in … Read more
A government scientist was ousted after the Trump administration ignored his dire warnings about COVID-19 and a malaria drug President Donald Trump was pushing for the coronavirus despite scant evidence it helped, according to a whistleblower complaint Tuesday. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, filed the complaint Tuesday with … Read more
Members of the White House coronavirus task force that has drawn worldwide attention amid the outbreak are being told it is ‘winding down’ even as the number of U.S. deaths and infections are projected to rise. The task force, which was put under the domain of Vice President Mike Pence only to have President Donald Trump take … Read more
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said shots fired Sunday from North Korea towards the South across their border were ‘accidental.’ ‘Handful of shots came across from the north, we think those were accidental,’ he told ABC’s ‘This Week.’ ‘South Koreans did return fire. There was no loss of life on either side,’ he added. Gunfire … Read more