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Australia’s April labour force survey has been released and has shown a big miss on the Employment Change to the downside but an improvement on the Unemployment Rate. The data arrived as follows: Employment Change arrived as -30.6K against the expected 20K, prior 70.7K. The Unemployment Rate arrived at 5.5% against the expected 5.6%, prior 5.6%. Full-Time Employment Change came …

“With business-minded and more centrist members on the Democratic side in both the House and Senate, they look at the scope and breadth of these tax increases for the infrastructure and families plans and they just find them jaw-dropping,” said Neil Bradley, chief policy officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “You are talking about …

By Richard Wood12 May 2021 23:37 Professor Murphy said local manufacturing of mRNA vaccines – such as Moderna and Pfizer – won’t start until at least next year but it is technology “Australia has to have”. Australian manufacturing capacity was part of the deal signed with pharmaceutical giant Moderna. “It is very unlikely to be …

The cruiser USS Monterey stopped the stateless dhow on May 6 during a routine operation to verify its registry, the Navy said. A US Coast Guard Advanced Interdiction Team deployed on the Navy ship then boarded the dhow and found the weapons stash. The massive arms haul covered much of the rear flight deck of …

Strategically placed emergency beacons allow migrants lost in the desert call for help; highway checkpoints filter out drug loads by: Julian Resendiz Posted: May 6, 2021 / 04:25 PM EDT / Updated: May 6, 2021 / 04:25 PM EDT MARFA, Texas (Border Report) — Helicopters, horses, all-terrain vehicles and electronic sensors. Those are some of …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump and his supporters are intensifying efforts to shame — and potentially remove — members of their party who are seen as disloyal to the former president and his false claims that last year’s election was stolen from him. On Capitol Hill, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 Republican …

MARINETTE—Aside from the potential of serious adverse human health consequences and the slow legislative policymaking regarding issues of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), another big challenge looming on the front of those toxic forever chemicals concerns the extreme costs associated with remediation of contaminated sites. Clean up and remediation of those sites requires the proper …

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has frozen pay for senior executives in 2021 and is instead giving junior staff bigger salary increases, sources said, in an effort to preserve its workforce amid a regulatory clampdown. Hundreds of top-tier executives at Alibaba are not entitled to salary hikes this year, unless they performed extraordinarily, four …

A man uses an iPhone 7 smartphone to demonstrate the mobile payment service Apple Pay at a cafe in Moscow, Russia, October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev Digital payment services developed by U.S. tech giants such as Apple (AAPL.O) and Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) risk reinforcing their market power by giving them greater sway over consumers’ data, …

The Masked Singer is always big on surprises, though Wednesday night’s episode came from out of leftfield. If you were expecting to see another celebrity unmasked, you were in for a shock. All the remaining six contestants — Black Swan, Chameleon, Piglet, Robopine, Russian Dolls and Yeti — survive to sing another day, as the …