The Louisville police department is moving to oust the officer who fired the shot that killed Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black emergency room technician, during a flawed early morning raid on her home. The department is also seeking to fire a second officer who obtained a judge’s approval for the poorly planned raid. Officer Myles Cosgrove and Detective Joshua Jaynes […]

California Covid-19 Update: Governor Gavin Newsom announced a phased reopening strategy for the state’s schools called the “Safe Schools for All Plan.” TK-6 students will be allowed to return to school only if the individual schools submit a safety plan to state and local governments. If not disapproved five days after submission, schools will be allowed to open, subject to […]

Amazon has announced a deal to acquire rising podcast power Wondery and make it a key part of its Amazon Music streaming operation. Financial terms were not disclosed. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal had reported the companies were in talks, at a valuation north of $300 million. That’s a sizable step up from the $100 million level of […]

A federal judge has denied WME’s request for a preliminary injunction that would have ended the WGA’s boycott of the agency until the antitrust case can go to trial. It’s a major legal victory for the guild, and should add pressure on WME to settle the long-running dispute and sign the WGA’s franchise agreement, as have all the other major […]

SINGAPORE – With leisure travel grinding to a halt amid the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many employees in Singapore found themselves in the strange position – perhaps for the first time – of not having made full use of their annual leave. While these unused vacation days may have been wiped off in other years, some organisations have allowed employees […]

A small Finnish bank is explicitly disregarding European regulatory guidelines on dividends with the justification that ignoring its shareholders would be more risky in the long run. Alandsbanken Abp said on Friday that it is “choosing not to follow” the recommendations of the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority and, by extension, the European Central Bank. The ECB has urged lenders to […]

This time last year, no one picked a global pandemic was the economic trend to watch in 2020. As part of an annual look ahead, the Herald asks New Zealand’s leading economists to pick the key indicators or trends they’ll be looking at in the year ahead. This year a combination of Covid-19 factors tops the list of things New […]

FILE PHOTO: A Delta Air Lines Airbus A350-900 plane takes off from Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia, October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo(Reuters) – Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said in a memo on Friday that he continues to expect that the company will achieve positive cash flow by the spring. In his new year note to employees, Bastian […]

The multi-platinum selling recording artist and actress took to Twitter earlier this week to speak out against Facebook again, this time about the social media portal’s irresponsibility when it comes to information on Covid-19 and vaccines. Linking to a BBC News interview with the Center for Countering Digital Hate CEO Imi Ahmed, who expressed that social media companies aren’t doing […]