AUGUST 29, 2020
India must be the only big economy (fifth largest in the world at nominal GDP of $2.94 trillion in 2019) which has no official estimate of its total workforce (only official unemployment rate is declared), how many have social security cover, how many lost their jobs due to the lockdown and how many get unemployment allowance.
On August...
AUGUST 29, 2020
Future Enterprises’ Retail & Wholesale Undertaking has been transferred to Reliance Retail and Fashion Lifestyle Limited (RRFLL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of RRVL
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries’ subsidiary Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL) announced to acquire the Retail & Wholesale Business and the Logistics & Warehousing Business from the Future Group in a mega transaction for Rs...
AUGUST 29, 2020
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan
It was a surprise to a lot of Maryland school districts when Gov. Larry Hogan announced on Thursday that he wants students to return to in-person learning.
Montgomery and Prince George's counties are both set to begin the school year online Monday. Both plan to have all-online school throughout the first half of the school...
AUGUST 29, 2020
Former US President Barack Obama and Chadwick Boseman. - Instagram @BarackObama
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama on Saturday paid tribute to "Black Panther" star Chadwick Boseman after the 43-year-old actor died from cancer.
Barack Obama resurfaced a picture Boseman shared in July 2016 after visiting the White House to work with kids while...
AUGUST 29, 2020
Marilyn Cortez of Houston spent much of July in the hospital with the coronavirus. When she finally returned home, she received a $36,000 hospital bill. - Michael Starghill Jr. /NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Marilyn Cortez, a retired cafeteria worker in Houston with no health insurance, spent much of July in the hospital with Covid-19. When she finally...
AUGUST 29, 2020
An armed man is seen outside the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. - Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
As Kyle Rittenhouse secured a legal team Friday after being charged in the fatal shooting of two men at a protest against police brutality, demonstrators and law enforcement grapple with how the deadly gunfire in...
AUGUST 29, 2020
Protesters greet each other while holding George Floyd posters at the Lincoln Memorial Friday.
Just past dawn Friday, more than a half-century after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Lincoln Memorial’s marble steps and offered his vision for a fair and righteous America, thousands of protesters descended on the nation’s capital at the end of...
AUGUST 29, 2020
The actor Chadwick Boseman in 2018. - Valerie Macon/AFP — Getty Images
Chadwick Boseman, the actor who found fame as the star of the groundbreaking film “Black Panther” and who also portrayed pioneering Black figures such as Jackie Robinson, James Brown and Thurgood Marshall, died on Friday. He was 43.
A statement posted on Mr. Boseman’s Instagram account said...
AUGUST 28, 2020
A pig with a Neuralink implant.
Elon Musk's brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, conducted a live demo of its technology on Friday, showing a coin-sized device without wires.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO brought along three pigs, who had varying levels of interest in cooperating. Eventually, the audience was shown real-time neural signals from one of the pigs, which...
AUGUST 28, 2020
President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Immigration and Border Security during a campaign rally in Yuma, AZ. - Doug Mills/NY Times
Listen, liberals. If you don’t think Donald Trump can get re-elected in November, you need to spend more time on Facebook.
Since the 2016 election, I’ve been obsessively tracking how partisan political content is performing on Facebook, the...
