The coronavirus pandemic is expected to have resulted in a 14% drop in global working hours in the second quarter of 2020, the International Labor Organization said. The United Nations labor agency said this updated drop in hours of work was the equivalent of 400 million full-time job losses worldwide …
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Texas employee dodges bullet, fatally shoots robbery suspect trying to pass counterfeit bill: police
An employee of a Texas corner store shot and killed a robbery suspect on Monday night who allegedly shot him for the first time after trying to pass a counterfeit $ 20 bill, according to reports. The Houston Police Department responded to calls about a robbery that took place at …
Read More »International Asteroid Day: a look at NASA’s first planetary defense mission
Dimorphos got its name last week, just in time to reflect on the importance of understanding the threat from near-Earth asteroids. Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets whose orbits place them 30 million miles from Earth. In 1908, a powerful asteroid hit the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Russian …
Read More »Albert Breer: Why does the loss of the draft team ‘itch’ more for Bill Belichick?
It may have been lost since the news of Cam Newton’s signing fell around the same time, but the New England Patriots have been punished for videotaping the Cincinnati Bengals sideline last season. The penalties included a $ 1.1 million fine, Patriots TV teams were banned from shooting games during …
Read More »The composer who wrote the song for the song ‘MASH’ was 94 years old – Variety
Johnny Mandel, the Oscar-winning and Grammy-winning songwriter of “The Shadow of Your Smile”, “Emily” and the theme song “MASH”, has died. He was 94 years old. “I was very saddened to learn that a hero of mine, Johnny Mandel, passed away,” wrote Michael Buble on Twitter. “He was a genius …
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