TikTok has said it will withdraw from Hong Kong after China imposed a new security law on the city. Also, whether the U.K. furlough scheme for workers has saved millions of jobs or just delayed the inevitable.
Uber is buying food-delivery service Postmates. Plus, an early look at why market futures were up all morning. And, how does the cancellation of minor league baseball this year affect the towns where teams play?
Berkshire Hathaway Energy has announced it will acquire Dominion Energy’s natural gas transmission and storage business. The Louvre Museum in Paris is reopening. And, is a tax on the meat industry and its carbon emissions coming soon?
Visitors have been welcomed back to Paris’ Louvre Museum for the first time since March. Plus, the biggest shake-up in U.K. accounting in decades. And, two years since the U.S.-China trade war began, where things stand now.
Change is in the air for Native American representation in both the arts as well as the football field. Also, we examine how something called forced arbitration can have a negative impact on Black and brown workers.
The U.K. relaxes some of its COVID-19 travel restrictions. Also, minimum wage increases have already started in some places despite the pandemic. We also talk to psychotherapist and author Megan Devine about the ties that bind grief to the economy.
Nearly 5 million people found work in June, and the unemployment rate dropped to about 11%. But, there’s already concern about a July setback. Plus, reimagining the economy with Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation.
A study in JAMA strongly suggests we are undercounting the number of COVID-19 deaths. It could change how policy planners and hospitals operate. And, the philanthropic Ford Foundation is borrowing money during the pandemic, so it can give more away.
FedEx and DHL have reportedly suspended Chinese import shipments to India. Food delivery workers in Brazil protest over pressure from delivery apps. Ukraine’s central bank governor resigns blaming “systemic political pressure.”
