Shares in Deliveroo fell as much as 30% in its highly anticipated London IPO on Wednesday, wiping about £2.3 billion ($3.2 billion) off the company’s value, and dealing a blow to the city’s renewed efforts to attract tech company listings. The stock was last trading at around £2.86 ($3.94), about 27% below the price at
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This year’s March Madness might have exposed gaps in gender equity in college sports, but for two Black women, the 2021 NCAA women’s tournament will always represent a moment when history was made. For the first time in NCAA women’s tournament history, two Black women will be head coaches in the same Final Four. South
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Click here for updates on this story FRESNO, California (KFSN) — Action News has learned new details about an alleged sexual predator on an elementary school campus. Fresno police arrested the suspect last June. Terry McCoy’s arrest in June 2020 sent a shock wave through the Viking Elementary School community. The 44-year-old served as a
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In recent months, investors haven’t been able to pile quickly enough into the fast-growing companies hitting public markets. But the mood was different Wednesday in London, where shares of Amazon-backed food delivery service Deliveroo dropped as much as 30% in their first day of trading. The plunge wiped out roughly £2.3 billion ($3.2 billion) in
Continue Reading The story of humankind’s origins was thought to have largely unfolded in a cave with a sea view. The earliest evidence suggesting that modern humans were capable of symbolic thought and complex behavior — the use of ochre pigments paint and decorative items — comes from coastal sites in Africa that date back to around
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On Tuesday, Amanda Kloots marked the one-year anniversary of the day she took her husband, Nick Cordero, to the Cedar Sinai hospital before losing him to Covid-19 in July. “With Covid restrictions in place, we didn’t know which entrance was even open, so I left him on the corner,” she posted in the caption of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FRESNO, California (KFSN) — For 18 years, Jose Reymundo has walked through the streets of Fresno, selling paletas. He says the fear of being attacked or killed while working has never left him and every time a fellow street vendor is killed, it’s hard to get over. Reymundo
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Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States last year, after heart disease and cancer, according to provisional data released on Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The death rate from 2019 to 2020 increased by 15.9%, going up from 715.2 to 828.7 deaths per 100,000 people,
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The empty middle seat on airplanes, one of the few advantages of pandemic, is about to disappear. Delta Air Lines, the last remaining US airline to keep middle seats unbooked, has lifted that prohibition as of May 1, the company announced Wednesday. It is another sign of a rebound in demand for air travel and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Opposing opinions at a public meeting in Saraland Tuesday night over Alabama Power’s plan to seal coal ash in place at it’s Barry Power Plant in Mobile County. Not everyone’s on board with that plan. Those on the other side want the coal ash
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Today, transgender and nonbinary people around the world will recognize International Transgender Day of Visibility. With transgender visibility in the US at an all-time high in politics, media and sports, today is a day for allies and advocates to show up and show support. Here’s what you should know. How did it start? Transgender Day
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Just eight months ago, Huawei reached its longtime goal of becoming the world’s biggest smartphone maker. Now, it is not even in the top three. On Wednesday, the Chinese tech giant acknowledged that its smartphone business was suffering as US sanctions continue to stifle its growth, cutting off the company’s ability to obtain critical components
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There are three Covid-19 vaccines authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration, and they all required that each vaccine manufacturer conduct clinical trials with tens of thousands of volunteers to ensure that the vaccines are safe and effective. CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen participated in a clinical trial for the Johnson & Johnson
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An off-duty Minneapolis firefighter who was rebuffed from rendering aid to George Floyd last May returned to the stand in Derek Chauvin’s trial on Wednesday, a day after her cross-examination grew contentious. Genevieve Hansen testified on Tuesday she was out for a walk on her day off and came upon Floyd in clear medical distress
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WILSON’S CREEK, Caldwell County (WLOS) — A North Carolina man is jailed after deputies said he shot and killed a family pet and the de facto mascot of a popular country store. Caldwell County Sherriff’s Office officials said “Rocky,” a 120-pound Rottweiler, was laying on the porch at
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Jeff Mosely’s job revolves around keeping students engaged in the classroom — but with many classrooms online only during the Covid-19 pandemic, that has become a challenge. And it’s a challenge he takes personally, as the executive director of academic programs for Marietta City Schools in the suburbs of Atlanta. “When you can’t find a
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President Joe Biden believes Americans “deserve better information” about the origin of Covid-19 and further steps from the global community, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday after the release of a World Health Organization report that said the pandemic is very likely to have started with transmission from one animal to another, and
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President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan is no joke. The huge — more than $2 trillion — proposal he will unveil Wednesday covers an expansive and vital policy area that became a Washington punch line in the Trump administration and resulted in painful dashed hopes for previous presidents. For Biden, infrastructure is about far more than
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A court in Vietnam handed a two-year suspended jail term to a Vietnam Airlines flight attendant on Tuesday after finding him guilty of breaking Covid-19 quarantine rules and spreading the virus to others, police said. Duong Tan Hau, 29, was convicted of “spreading dangerous infectious diseases” at the one-day trial at the People’s Court of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VANCEBORO, Craven County (WLOS) — A jury has found Jeffrey Acker guilty of second degree murder for the 2018 killing of Carolyn Patterson. He has also been deemed guilty of felonious robbery with a dangerous weapon and felony larceny of a motor vehicle. Acker will face 30 to
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