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Are Uber and Lyft just bluffing? Both services for riding dogs are threatening to suspend their operations in California after a judge denied an exemption for them from ABV of the AB5, the new state law that requires companies to classify drivers as employees. The court order gave Uber and …

Afghan authorities have begun releasing a final batch of 400 Taliban prisoners, removing the last obstacle to talks between the government in Kabul and the insurgents. Negotiations on a possible end to the decades of Afghanistan’s war could begin next week, one source said. The Associated Press also reported that …

That did not last long. The new trade contract between Canada, the United States and Mexico was barely a month old when President Trump, during a tour of a Whirlpool equipment factory, announced that he had again set tariffs on aluminum from Canada. Canada, in turn, will impose tariff rates …

The death toll from confirmed coronavirus cases in Massachusetts rose from 14 to 8,582, state officials reported Friday, and the number of confirmed cases rose by 212, bringing the total to 113,729. The number of individuals tested for the coronavirus increased by 21,552, for a total of 1,402,730. An additional …