Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards in June
Visa continues to plan a version of its credit card reader that will work only with its debit and credit cards, it says in letter to Card Payment Processor Council Amazon will stop accepting…
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Amazon workers drop union campaign amid US deliveries halt
With their labor unions engaged in strikes elsewhere, delivery drivers for Amazon have withdrawn their request for a union vote at the company’s major distribution centers in the New York area. As previously reported…
As Korea-wide affair taints national college entrance exams, students play defense
A paper-scoring system under attack in South Korea this week put increasing pressure on the 40,000 students sitting for this year’s national college entrance exams, which began on Monday in the country’s southern cities…
Reports: President Trump Set to Sell Trump International Hotel in Washington
President Trump is set to sell the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., a four-star hotel that he used to own, according to the New York Times, and The Associated Press reports that negotiations…
Police kill man following police-involved arrest in Chicago
A Chicago-area man who became entangled in the body of a pair of officers during his arrest will receive $5m, a settlement announced Monday says. Police said Tomie Sierra was killed while five officers…
This new strip of Long Island is poised to become a culinary destination
What good are the Southeast and Southwest wings if a lack of ventilation leaves the taste of red hot sauce burning in your mouth? As any resident can attest, that has always been my…
Iconic producer Gail Berman talks making history
Written by Staff Writer CNN “The cast and crew was just completely brilliant.” Yes, that’s an eye-catching comment from Gail Berman, the executive producer of “Whitney,” the hugely successful CBS sitcom that starred the…
900-year-old sword set to sell for $500,000
Written by By Tom Butler, CNN Written by A 900-year-old sword of the legendary crusader Knight Templar is set to fetch $500,000 when it goes under the hammer at Bonhams in London next month….
Scientists solve mystery of how fat builds up in the body. And, yes, it’s mostly luck
In a study published Friday in Nature Reviews Liver, scientists at the Institute of Translational Medicine at the University of British Columbia shed new light on the genetics of polycystic kidney disease, also known…
Finishing the walk: refugees want to return to their homes
Donations to the Albanian refugee community are split between the 52×360 mile Long Walk and the Liberty Bank Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Mr Rosenberg was born on 9 November 1916, the son…