Gambling: 'A banking app helped me beat my addiction'

As thousands sign up to "gambling blocks" on two apps, one ex-addict talks about how it helped him.

from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2IEuOCg

Read More

What's behind Italy's economic turbulence?

The controversy surrounding the Italian government's spending plans has led to more nervousness on the financial markets.

from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2OajmEG

Read More

Topshop dismantles feminism pop-up

The retail store took down a London pop-up promoting a Penguin book on feminism, the publisher says.

from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2OcYLQc

Read More

US jobless rate hits 49-year low of 3.7%

The US jobless rate falls to 3.7% in September, the lowest level since December 1969.

from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2zTIPtb

Read More

Unilad: Boss says the brand is 'doing better than ever'

John Quinlan says he's confident a buyer will be found for the brand after its owner went into administration.

from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2y1xNRs

Read More

Where have all the 'for sale' signs gone?

The UK's biggest mortgage lender says the lack of homes on the market means prices are still rising.

from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2PeygpO

Read More

Productivity perks up in second quarter

UK worker's output growth rebounded in the second quarter, but still lags the pre-crisis average.

from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2xZRybW

Read More

Lenovo and ZTE shares hit by spyware row

Shares in Lenovo and ZTE drop after a report that Beijing inserted spying devices into US computers.

from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2P9UDNe

Read More

Walkers crisp packets recycling scheme announced

Campaigners had been attempting to "flood" the snackmaker by posting empty packets back to its HQ.

from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2Pe1xRm

Read More

The world’s first fully-autonomous indoor farm

The world’s first fully-autonomous indoor farm in San Carlos, California, is soon to be operational.

from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2C2KtKi

Read More

Tsukiji: Japan's famed fish market to relocate

Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market holds its last pre-dawn tuna auction before being moved to a new site.

from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2E398Ba

Read More

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says he will vote in favor of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, apparently cementing the Trump

10/05/18 4:03 PM

Read More

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Friday that she will vote in favor of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

10/05/18 3:53 PM

Read More

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Chicago police officer found guilty of second-degree murder of black teenager Laquan McDonald

10/05/18 2:56 PM

Read More

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Verdict reached in case of Chicago police officer who fatally shot black teenager Laquan McDonald

10/05/18 2:12 PM

Read More

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert

White House believes it has the votes to confirm Kavanaugh, source tells Fox News

10/05/18 11:24 AM

Read More

Backing from senators puts Kavanaugh on track for U.S. Supreme Court

President Donald Trump's nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, looked headed for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday after two crucial senators said that sexual misconduct accusations against the judge would not prevent them from voting to confirm him.

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2IGTiLl

Read More

California wild horses to be captured, activists fear slaughter

One thousand wild horses are to be rounded up in California by the U.S. Forest Service and animal rights activists fear hundreds of them could be sold for slaughter.

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2OHHxK6

Read More

Trump says Pentagon to produce lithium sea-water batteries

President Donald Trump said on Friday there was a shortfall in the U.S. defense industrial base relating to lithium sea-water batteries and the Defense Department would purchase equipment for pilot production of the batteries that are critical for anti-submarine warfare.

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2E1ar3F

Read More

Fire that prompted Yosemite closure sparked by vehicle

U.S. Forest Service investigators have determined that a motor vehicle is to blame for sparking the massive, deadly California wildfire that prompted a nearly three-week closure of Yosemite National Park's best known landmarks.

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2zVtYym

Read More

Immigration violations, possible sex trafficking found at Nevada brothels

An investigation of three legal Nevada brothels owned by a reality TV star and candidate for the state legislature found immigration violations and indications of possible human trafficking, the county sheriff said.

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2QrPTCA

Read More

Group seeks U.S. DNA to identify missing migrants

Human rights advocates on Friday pushed the U.S. government for access to an FBI-run DNA database to help identify the remains of thousands of immigrants who have disappeared on the U.S.-Mexico border.

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2O8mEZ9

Read More

Utah man charged with ricin mail threat against Trump, Mattis

A U.S. Navy veteran from Utah was charged on Friday with threatening President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary James Mattis, the FBI director and an admiral by mailing them letters containing castor beans, from which the deadly poison ricin is derived.

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2II1ivo

Read More

Kavanaugh on the U.S. Supreme Court: sparks or harmony?

When Clarence Thomas took a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991, he had only barely survived a series of bitter Senate hearings on allegations of sexual harassment that divided the country.

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2yhrGaY

Read More

JBS sued by Kentucky woman over ground beef in salmonella recall

A Kentucky woman is suing the U.S. arm of Brazil's JBS SA, alleging she was hospitalized after consuming ground beef produced by the company that was tainted with Salmonella, according to a lawsuit filed on Friday in Arizona state court.

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2E3Bw6i

Read More

Chicago police officer guilty of murder in 2014 shooting of black teen

White Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder on Friday for the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald, touching off celebratory street demonstrations in a case that had laid bare tensions between the black community and police.

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2O7Uk9g

Read More

Court rules for California over Trump in sanctuary city case

A U.S. judge on Friday blocked the Trump Administration from placing conditions on public safety grants to further its crackdown on illegal immigration, and he ordered the grant money to be released to California "sanctuary cities."

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2IHjwxc

Read More

'Jersey Shore' star Sorrentino sentenced to eight months for tax evasion

Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, star of the reality television show "The Jersey Shore," was sentenced to eight months in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to tax evasion.

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2IFhM7L

Read More

Factbox: Trials of U.S. police officers charged with killing black men

A Chicago jury on Friday found a white police officer guilty of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of a black teenager, making him the first law enforcement officer in decades to be convicted of murder while on duty in the third-largest U.S. city.

from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2E2Da8d

Read More