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© Reuters. By Ismail Shakil and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Labor Department on Friday slapped a $298,000 penalty on Hostess Brands (NASDAQ:), alleging that safety and training failures at the bakery firm led to a worker in Chicago losing a fingertip in December. The department said its investigation found that the Hostess could have prevented the amputation injury a 29-year-old worker suffered while reassembling a pump at a company facility in Chicago. Hostess could have prevented the injury by ensuring that equipment is shut down and locked up to prevent it from unexpectedly starting during maintenance, the…

jittawit.21 JP Morgan has upgraded MorphoSys (NASDAQ:MOR) to overweight, citing upcoming data from a Phase 3 clinical study for its drug pelabresib in the treatment of myelofibrosis, a type of bone marrow cancer. The investment bank said that positive results would de-risk a “blockbuster asset” that it believes could have peak sales of EUR 1.5B. Results from the Phase 3 trial are expected in late 2023. “Though there is also some risk of secondary endpoint failure, which would be a significant disappointment, we see the study as being more likely to succeed than fail, and with even a 50/50 blended…

President Biden made a forceful case on Friday for stronger gun laws, saying American children caught up in school shootings are suffering from the same trauma as soldiers in war.Speaking at a firearms safety summit in Hartford, Conn., attended by victims of gun violence, Mr. Biden marked one year since the passage of a bipartisan bill intended to prevent dangerous people from accessing guns. But he said there was more to be done.“What’s the difference between the post-traumatic stress that a soldier meets in the hills of Afghanistan,” Mr. Biden asked, and the kind of trauma a “fourth-grade kid meets in…

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Italy has approved measures to limit the shareholder rights of the Chinese chemical group Sinochem in Pirelli, the Milan-listed tyremaker and set out a wider range of sectors that the government judges to be of national security importance.The decision is a rare intervention in an eight-year-old Chinese investment that had, so far, not been considered a strategic national asset. In 2015, a previous Chinese state-owned chemicals group had bought a majority stake in Pirelli, considered a crown jewel of Italian industry, for $7.7bn.Prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s office said in a statement on Friday that the latest measures, passed under the…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed Facebook logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration (Reuters) -Meta Platforms said on Friday services on its social media apps Facebook (NASDAQ:) and Instagram were restored, more than two hours after an outage that affected thousands of users. At one point, nearly 20,000 users in total said they were having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram and Meta’s messaging service WhatsApp, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. Outage reports had come down to less than 500 as of 6:30 p.m. ET (2230 GMT), according to Downdetector.…

Big Eyes coin was listed on Uniswap on Thursday at a price 88% lower than the listing price announced by the team, then crashed further. $BIG token is now down 99%, trading at approximately $0.000007.$BIG token was listed at $0.0000743 on Uniswap, compared to the stated listing price of $0.0006. The stage one price for the presale – which began back in August 2022 – was $0.0001.Big Eyes Coin Holders Down 95%Several holders posted screenshots such as the ones below showing that they were down on their investment at the time of the Uniswap launch, for example to $2k from…

News that the Beatles are using AI to include John Lennon’s voice on a new song marks the latest, and somewhat surprising, chapter, in the technology’s often controversial evolution. The prospect of the tech-fueled new release more than half a century after the Beatles split has divided fans of the iconic band, with some full of excitement and others, well, a bit unsettled by the whole thing. Even Paul McCartney described AI as “kind of scary but exciting” in an interview with the BBC where he discussed the new song. Opinion: The Beatles are using AI to include John Lennon’s voice…

Milwaukee County’s first openly LGBTQ+ county supervisor says an assailant called him a gay slur and then punched him in the face this week at a suburban mall.WISCONSIN GOV. EVERS ‘JAZZED AS HELL’ AS STATE RAISES PRIDE FLAG IN FRONT OF CAPITOLSupervisor Peter Burgelis was struck in the face while inside a store at the Mayfair Mall on Monday, news outlets reported, citing Wauwatosa police. Milwaukee County Supervisor Peter Burgelis, who is openly gay, claims he was called a homophobic slur before being punched in the face at a Wauwatosa mall. (Fox News)The attack happened after a dispute in the…

Three workers for Cognizant filed an NLRB complaint against the firm and Google on Friday. They allege they were let go as a union movement among Google contractors began to make inroads.  Google’s contractors have been putting pressure on the company to provide better working conditions. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app The Alphabet Workers Union has filed a new complaint on Friday with the National Labor Relations Board against Google and its contractor Cognizant on behalf of three contract YouTube TV…