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By Nandita Bose and Akanksha Rana (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos on Thursday challenged retailers to hike their minimum wages to $16 an hour, prompting a comeback from Walmart Inc which asked its rivals to pay taxes. "Today I challenge our top retail competitors (you know who you are!) to match our employee benefits and our $15 minimum wage," the billionaire entrepreneur said in a letter https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/2018-letter-to-shareholders to shareholders. Читать дальше...

The Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) of Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Hajia Abibata Shanni Mahama Zakariah has given President Akufo-Addo a higher percentage mark for recognizing and empowering more Ghanaian women than any other government in the history of this nation. Hajia Abibata told the 3rd US-Africa International ...

After beginning the 2019 Masters with a round of 67, Phil Mickelson hailed a recent rule change that he feels has made the game fairer.

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new trade war sparked by U.S. automotive tariffs has the potential to do much more damage to global economic growth than the U.S.-China trade conflict has done, International Monetary Fund chief economist Gita Gopinath said on Thursday. Gopinath told Reuters in an interview that such a conflict would affect exports from many more countries and impose retaliatory duties on U.S.

After long-term injury woe, Daniel Altmaier is back getting stuck into competition and learning to love playing tennis again.

By Joshua Franklin NEW YORK (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc has 91 million users, but growth is slowing and it may never make a profit, the ride-hailing company said on Thursday in its initial public offering filing.

Magic Johnson abruptly resigned as the Los Angeles Lakers' president of basketball operations Tuesday night, citing his desire to return to the simpler life he enjoyed as a wealthy businessman and

Great Britain's Fed Cup captain Anne Keothavong has named her strongest squad for their World Group II play-off against Kazakhstan later this month.

Britain's Kyle Edmund exited the Grand Prix Hassan II in Morocco, suffering defeat to a resurgent Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Wednesday.

The city of Chicago filed a lawsuit Thursday against Jussie Smollett, saying the actor owes it more than $130,000 for police costs incurred in the investigation of a hate crime that authorities all

By midnight Monday, more than 9 million New Yorkers will have filed their income tax returns for 2018. And most will then have cause to wonder what the Great New York SALT Panic of 2018 was all about. Gov. Cuomo portrayed President Trump’s tax reform and its $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions...

By Jim Dower: Vasily Lomachenko will be getting $1.2 million with a guarantee’d purse of $3.2 million for his title defense of his WBA/WBO lightweight titles against Anthony Crolla this Friday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Crolla has a guarantee of $300,000. There’s a big disparity with what Lomachenko is getting […]

By David Lawder and Leika Kihara WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The six-month delay of Britain's exit from the European Union avoids the "terrible outcome" of a "no-deal" Brexit that would further pressure a slowing global economy but does nothing to lift uncertainty over the final outcome, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.

Police in Oregon were called after moving shadows were seen behind a locked bathroom door.

The University of Jamestown men's basketball team has announced their summer camp schedule.

Overall, IT companies are expected to deliver steady numbers, owing to ramp-up in deal wins and healthy digital growth.

Body found in Virginia - Local Hibbing Daily Tribune VIRGINIA The body of a deceased female was found in Virginia on Tuesday.

After months of building anticipation, Disney has finally announced a launch date and price point for its new streaming service, Disney+. 

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North Carolina Ports third neo-Panamax crane arrived to the Port of Wilmington on Monday morning. Th...

We’re pitting 16 Bay Area bakeries against each other to see which makes the tastiest cupcake — and asking you to be judge, jury and eater. Vote for your fave -- Kara's Cupcakes? Frost Cupcake Factory? Republic of Cake? -- now.

DALLAS — Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis are the Euro stars of the future for the Dallas Mavericks now that Dirk Nowitzki has retired after a record 21 seasons with the same franchise. The rookie sensation from Slovenia and the 7-foot-3 Latvian didn’t get to play together in the two months after Dallas acquired Porzingis

What I discussed with Nigerians in UAE Buhari Vanguard Following the abrupt end to his visit to the United Arab Emirate (UAE) due to security uproar in North West, President Muhammadu Buhari.

Former pope Benedict XVI on Thursday blamed the Catholic clerical sex abuse scandals on the 1960s sexual revolution and a collapse in faith in the West, immediately drawing criticism from some theologians.

"The secularity of our institutions is not called into question by the convictions or the wearing of religious symbols by certain individuals."