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Fox News would likely prevail in a lawsuit against Carlson, says employment lawyer Peter Rahbar. Fox News earlier sent a cease-and-desist letter to Carlson over his new Twitter show, per Axios. But Carlson has continued to broadcast on the platform, defying these legal threats. 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 Tucker Carlson has defied Fox News’ cease-and-desist letter, an attempt to block him from hosting more episodes of his new Twitter show. But this move from Carlson may have serious consequences: An…

San Francisco has been an outlier among American cities in its inability to rebound from pandemic lockdowns. Nearly a third of offices downtown are vacant, the highest share of any major city in the country. Stores are closing every week as employees, especially in the technology sector, continue to work from home. On Monday, the mall owner Westfield said it was abandoning the city’s largest downtown shopping mall, Westfield San Francisco Centre.San Francisco is also dealing with a crisis of homelessness and drug overdoses in certain downtown neighborhoods. When a Whole Foods supermarket not far from City Hall closed in…

More than 100 companies in the UK property industry, including Landsec, Grosvenor Property and Rockwool, have urged Rishi Sunak to make planning decisions take account of climate change by law.The group wrote to the prime minister and three secretaries of state, arguing that the existing planning system in England undermines the property sector’s ability to deliver high-quality sustainable homes at speed and scale. The planning system is frequently criticised by property groups for slow and inconsistent decision-making, which they argue has hampered much-needed housebuilding and development.The executives said the “levelling up and regeneration bill”, currently moving through parliament, offers an opportunity…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Shoppers walk in a retail district in Beijing, China, July 13, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s economy stumbled in May, data showed on Thursday, with industrial output and retail sales growth both missing forecasts, adding to expectations that Beijing will have to quickly ramp up stimulus to shore up a shaky pandemic recovery. A first-quarter economic rebound has lost momentum in the second quarter, prompting China’s central bank this week to cut some key interest rates, with expectations of more to come. Industrial output grew 3.5% in May from a year earlier, the…

JHVEPhoto Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) has reportedly hired Moderna’s (NASDAQ:MRNA) chief medical officer, Paul Burton, as its new chief medical officer. Burton succeeds Amgen Senior Vice President of Global Medical Darryl Sleep, who had been serving as interim CMO. Sleep will continue as head of global medical after Burton assumes his post, according to Fierce Biotech, which cited an Amgen internal memo. Burton joined Moderna as CMO in July 2021 after working 16 years in various positions at Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), including as chief global medical affairs officer for its Janssen division. Prior to J&J, he worked as global development leader…

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Hunter Biden and his business partners with ties to Burisma attended a December 2015 holiday party hosted by the then-vice president Biden just a few days after he returned from his famous trip to Ukraine, where he threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid if the country’s leaders did not fire their top prosecutor, according to records reviewed by Fox News Digital.As vice president, Biden traveled to Ukraine, where he famously put pressure on the country’s leaders to fire then-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder and former president of Burisma Holdings, where Hunter served…

Hong Kong’s banking regulator is pressuring lenders including HSBC and Standard Chartered to take on crypto exchanges as clients, even as US regulators crack down on the industry.At a meeting last month, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority questioned the UK-based lenders and Bank of China on why they were not accepting crypto exchanges as clients, three people with knowledge of the matter said.Due diligence on potential customers should not “create undue burden”, particularly “for those setting up an office in Hong Kong to look for the opportunities here”, the HKMA said to the banks in an April 27 letter seen…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A view of the city skyline and Huangpu river, ahead of the annual National People’s Congress (NPC), in Shanghai, China February 24, 2022. Picture taken February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s central bank cut the borrowing cost of its medium-term policy loans for the first time in 10 months on Thursday, in line with expectations, as Beijing ramps up stimulus measures to shore up a shaky economic recovery. The move comes just days after it lowered two key short-term policy rates, a sign that authorities are increasingly concerned about the economy’s fragility…

Tezos price has lost over 7% this week as the buyers have failed to force a daily close above the $3.00 mark. As a result, the price action is developing a double top chart pattern, which is a bearish formation that may ultimately push the price action below the $1.50 handle.  Fundamental analysis: Tezos to integrate tech for anti-money laundering compliance Tezos protocol and its native token, XTZ, have incorporated blockchain AML & transaction monitoring solutions made by Coinfirm, the blockchain analytics and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) said. “Tezos has set itself in a leadership role by providing their protocol and…