Taipei, Taiwan U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday during a high-level visit by a U.S. Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic ties between Washington and Taipei in 1979, when the US recognized China. Beijing has protested Azar’s …
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The Mountain West conference has canceled its football season this fall due to players’ health and safety concerns regarding COVID-19, sources told Stadium. In a vote of league presidents Monday, Mountain West became the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS)’s second conference to cancel all of its fall sports, sources said. The …
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A California judge has ruled that Uber and Lyft should classify their drivers as employees in a brilliant preliminary assignment issued Monday afternoon. The assignment has been pending for 10 days, however, giving Uber and Lyft the opportunity to appeal the decision. Uber said it planned to file an immediate …
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A Duke University study with 14 different types of face masks by scientists has yielded some surprising findings about the effectiveness of different face masks, while also underlining the claim that each mask or face mask is better than none. In a test, researchers found that talking in some masks, …
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Fox Business Briefs: Disney’s three major streaming services Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN Plus are 100 million paid subscribers; Clorox says shopping shelves will not be full of disinfectant wipes until 2021. Clorox CEO-elect Linda Rendle said Monday that the company is “making more disinfectant products than we have ever …
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