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2 teens injured in shooting that triggered stadium panic & evacuation at high school football game in Philadelphia

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Two teens were injured as a shooting interrupted a high school football game in Philadelphia’s Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood, forcing an evacuation of the stadium. The victims were rushed to the hospital after gunshots broke out behind the bleachers at Marcus... Read More

Gunfire at Philadelphia high school football game leaves 2 teens wounded: reports

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Two teenagers were shot during a high school football game inPhiladelphia on Friday night, according to reports. Hundreds of attendees and...

School cancels football game days after cheerleaders are punished for pro-Trump banner

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A North Carolina school district nixed a Friday night high schoolfootball game because of security concerns, days after cheerleaders there...

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Microsoft president: Don’t move fast and break things

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Some US tech firms have gained a reputation for being willing to launch products before it is clear whether... Read More

Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps

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Facebook says it has suspended tens of thousands of apps as part of an investigation it launched in the... Read More

What3words: ‘Life-saving app’ divides opinion

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A woman rescued from near Everest’s base camp after a fall, a business traveller caught up in a terrorist... Read More

Exclusive: Fitbit considers whether it should explore a sale – sources

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(Reuters) – Wearable device maker Fitbit Inc (FIT.N) has been in talks with an investment bank about the possibility... Read More

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Uber sues New York City over ‘cruising cap’ rule -filing

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FILE PHOTO: A screen displays the company logo for Uber Technologies Inc on the day of its IPO at... Read More

EMERGING MARKETS-Latam FX set to log first weekly loss in three as stimulus cheer fades

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(Updates with weekly loss; updates prices) By Sruthi Shankar Sept 20 (Reuters) - An index of Latin American currencies... Read More

UPDATE 3-Walmart to stop sales of e-cigarettes in U.S. stores -company memo

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Walmart Inc (WMT.N) told staff on Friday it will stop selling e-cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery... Read More

McDermott rebounds as it weighs unit sale to boost liquidity

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By Simon Casey on 9/20/2019 NEW YORK (Bloomberg) – McDermott International’s shares doubled in early trading and its bonds... Read More

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Fed’s Rosengren flags risks to economy in WeWork-style model

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(Reuters) – The rise in co-working spaces, like those offered by WeWork, may be a source of financial instability that could make the next U.S. recession worse by sparking a run on commercial real estate, Boston Federal Reserve Bank... Read More

Oil slips on trade fears but soars in week after Saudi production attacked

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices eased on Friday on renewed concern over the U.S.-China trade war, but futures...

Wall Street drops after China cancels trip to Montana farmland

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(Reuters) – Wall Street dropped on Friday, and also finished the week lower, after a Chinese agriculture delegation canceled...

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Louis Theroux: ‘I needed to give more of myself away’

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There’s not much Louis Theroux hasn’t experienced of humanity. In more than 25 years of documentary making, he’s moved... Read More

Fire-damaged rooster from Notre-Dame’s spire goes on display

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The iconic copper rooster, which was perched at the top of the spire of Notre-Dame Cathedral for more than... Read More

Hong Kong diners offered protest-inspired ‘eyeball’ mocktails and ‘tear gas’ eggs

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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Pro-democracy protests that have roiled Hong Kong for more than three months are providing culinary... Read More

Blumarine says elegance comes in kindness at Milan show

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MILAN (Reuters) – With a blooming rose catwalk, Italian fashion designer Anna Molinari dedicated her latest collection for label... Read More

Health

Efforts to cut sugar out of food way off target

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Efforts to cut a fifth of the sugar out of our food by next year are way off target,... Read More

‘Cancer treatment broke my heart, but I’ve survived’

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“It’s bonkers what’s happened over the past five years,” says Kreena Dhiman from Crawley in West Sussex. When diagnosed... Read More

Ohio man goes to emergency room for bug bite, receives cancer diagnosis instead

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The decision by an Ohio man to go to the emergency room to have a second look at a... Read More

E-sniffer predicts non-responders to lung cancer immunotherapy

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An electronic “nose” that detects chemicals in the breath of lung cancer patients may help distinguish between those who... Read More

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YouTube forced to apologize & reverse verification reforms after user uprising threatens bottom line

YouTube is reversing course – and apologizing profusely – after an attempt to strip popular channels of their verification checks nearly triggered an uprising. Management listening to the users – is this a social media first? YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki took to Twitter on Friday to grovel before the [...]

China develops handheld sonic weapon for crowd control: report

China has developed the world’s first portable sonic gun to control riots, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced. The instrument was jointly created with the military and law enforcement and is meant to disperse crowds using focused waves of low-frequency sound, according to a report in the Sout [...]

13 Marines charged in human smuggling case

Thirteen Marines have been formally charged with playing a role in the smuggling of undocumented immigrants into the U.S., the Marine Corps announced Friday. In addition to the smuggling charges, the Marines will face military court proceedings for charges including failure to obey an order, drunken [...]

Fed’s Rosengren flags risks to economy in WeWork-style model

Oil slips on trade fears but soars in week after Saudi production attacked

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices eased on Friday on renewed concern over the U.S.-China trade war, but futures still posted weekly gains, with Brent marking its biggest weekly increase since January, after an attack on Saudi Arabia’s energy industry last weekend. Brent crude LCOc1 futures fell 12 cen [...]

Wall Street drops after China cancels trip to Montana farmland

(Reuters) – Wall Street dropped on Friday, and also finished the week lower, after a Chinese agriculture delegation canceled a planned visit to Montana, dampening optimism about U.S.-China trade talks. FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., Sep [...]

Uber sues New York City over ‘cruising cap’ rule -filing

FILE PHOTO: A screen displays the company logo for Uber Technologies Inc on the day of its IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 10, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc sued New York City on Friday over a new rule limiting h [...]

EMERGING MARKETS-Latam FX set to log first weekly loss in three as stimulus cheer fades

(Updates with weekly loss; updates prices) By Sruthi Shankar Sept 20 (Reuters) - An index of Latin American currencies fell on Friday, set for its first weekly loss in three, as optimism over a fresh round of stimulus for emerging economies was offset by doubts about progress in U.S.-China trade tal [...]

UPDATE 3-Walmart to stop sales of e-cigarettes in U.S. stores -company memo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Walmart Inc (WMT.N) told staff on Friday it will stop selling e-cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery products at its U.S. stores, amid a growing crackdown on surging teenage use of such products, reports of vaping-related lung disease and some deaths. FILE PHOTO: Walmar [...]

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Tottenham Hotspur FC completes 637 million pound stadium refinancing

LONDON (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has completed a 637 million pound ($798.67 million) stadium refinancing package that included a bond issue to U.S. investors and a term loan, the company said in a statement. The English football club said on Friday it has raised 525 million pounds [...]

China drafts bar for net capital of banks’ wealth management units

BEIJING (Reuters) – China released draft rules on net capital management of commercial banks’ wealth management units on Friday, a follow-up move to regulate the risk of country’s newly structured wealth management industry. Net capital of commercial banks’ wealth management units should be no less [...]

Australian regulator loses landmark pension fund court battle

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s banking watchdog lost a landmark case on Friday after a court ruled it had not proved its case alleging wealth manager IOOF Holdings had breached pension laws. The dismissal of the case, which sent IOOF’s shares soaring by 8%, was the second setback in as many months f [...]

Hydrostor Announces Close of US$37 Million Growth Financing

TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hydrostor, a leading developer of Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) projects, announced today the closing of US$37 million (C$49 million) in growth financing. RBC Capital Markets acted as Hydrostor’s advisor on the transaction. Meridiam, the g [...]

Delisting of Tenaris’s shares in Argentina to become effective on October 11, 2019

LUXEMBOURG, Sept. 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tenaris S.A. (NYSE, Buenos Aires and Mexico: TS and MTA Italy: TEN) (“Tenaris”, or the “Company”) announced today that the Argentine National Securities Commission (Comisión Nacional de Valores, or “CNV”) has authorized the delisting of the Company’s sh [...]

Comisión Nacional de Valores autoriza el retiro del régimen de oferta pública de las acciones de Tenaris en Argentina, con efecto al 11 de octubre de 2019.

LUXEMBURGO, Sept. 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tenaris S.A. (NYSE, Buenos Aires y México: TS y MTA Italia: TEN) (“Tenaris”, o la “Sociedad”), anunció en el día de hoy que la Comisión Nacional de Valores (“CNV”) argentina autorizó el retiro del régimen de oferta pública de las acciones de Tenaris en A [...]

Exclusive: Fitbit considers whether it should explore a sale – sources

(Reuters) – Wearable device maker Fitbit Inc (FIT.N) has been in talks with an investment bank about the possibility of exploring a sale amid challenges in successfully pivoting from fitness trackers to smartwatches, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: The ticker symbol for F [...]

U.S. trade regulators approve some Apple tariff exemption requests

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Apple is seen at a store in Zurich, Switzerland January 3, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (Reuters) – U.S. trade regulators on Friday approved 10 out of 15 requests for tariff exemptions filed by Apple Inc. Apple did not say why it requested the exemptions, but the requests were [...]

CME to start offering options on bitcoin futures early next year

NEW YORK (Reuters) – CME Group, the world’s largest futures exchange operator, said on Friday it plans to launch options on its bitcoin futures contracts in the first quarter of 2020, giving traders another way to hedge their risk in the cryptocurrency. CME launched bitcoin futures in December 2017 [...]

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Ohio man goes to emergency room for bug bite, receives cancer diagnosis instead

The decision by an Ohio man to go to the emergency room to have a second look at a bug bite turned out to be a life-saving one, doctors say. Mike Balla, 46, was experiencing an unusual pain in his foot in August 2018 after he believed he was having a reaction to some sort […] [...]

E-sniffer predicts non-responders to lung cancer immunotherapy

An electronic “nose” that detects chemicals in the breath of lung cancer patients may help distinguish between those who will and will not respond to immunotherapy, a new study suggests. In the small study, the eNose was better at identifying the patients likely to benefit from immunotherapy than th [...]

Patients, doctors may not share priorities for chronic diseases

Patients and doctors often have different views about which chronic health conditions are their top priorities, suggests a study in France. After separate surveys of patients and their physicians, researchers found that priorities matched up for some conditions, such as diabetes and hypothyroidism, [...]

Special Report: The three young women racing to defuse a climate-change bomb

OVER THE NORWEGIAN SEA, Norway(Reuters) – Banking hard over the whitecaps off the west coast of Norway, the jetliner flying Dominika Pasternak and her fellow scientists descends so sharply that it seems for a moment as if the crew is about to ditch them all in the drink. FILE PHOTO: Kathryn Bennett, [...]

Jakarta to host green-friendly Formula E race next year

FILE PHOTO: A girl looks on the National Monument as smog covers the capital city of Jakarta, Indonesia, July 4, 2019. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan LONDON (Reuters) – Indonesia will host a Formula E round for the first time next June with drivers racing in central Jakarta, the all-electric racing series [...]

Bow hunters target invasive Asian carp for sport on the Illinois River

PEORIA, Ill. (Reuters) – A firefighter and archery enthusiast is making some extra cash with a novel if modest contribution to the ecosystem of the Great Lakes – taking paying customers out for boat rides on the Illinois River to hunt invasive Asian carp fish with bows and arrows. FILE PHOTO: Zach V [...]