Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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Volkswagen loses top EU court case in diesel scandal
BRUSSELS - The European Union's top court ruled on Thursday that Volkswagen breached the law by installing on its cars a so-called defeat device to cheat on emission tests and cannot argue it was mere...
Dec 17, 2020
Ottawa offers temporary debt relief for N.L.'s troubled Muskrat Falls project
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Ottawa is giving Newfoundland and Labrador temporary relief from debt and financing payments for the troubled Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project and appointing a top bureaucrat to ...
Dec 17, 2020
40 women in California launch suit against Montreal-based parent company of Pornhub
MONTREAL - A Montreal-based company that runs a popular porn website is being sued by 40 women in California who claim it continues to profit from pornographic videos of them that were published witho...
Dec 16, 2020
German government backs bill requiring 5G security pledge
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet approved a bill Wednesday that would require companies involved in setting up critical infrastructure such as high-speed 5G networks to guarantee tha...
Dec 16, 2020
Retail sales fell 1.1% in November, biggest drop in 7 months
NEW YORK - Americans held back on spending during the start of the holiday shopping season, a troubling sign for retailers and the state of the U.S. economy. U.S. retail sales fell a seasonally adjust...
Dec 16, 2020
US brands Vietnam, Switzerland as currency manipulators
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Treasury Department has branded Vietnam and Switzerland as currency manipulators while putting China and nine other countries on a watch list in an annual report designed to halt...
Dec 16, 2020
Biden taps Buttigieg for transportation, Granholm for energy
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden nominated his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation on Tuesday and intends to choose former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as his energy se...
Dec 15, 2020
Virus resurgence hits H&M sales, cuts promising recovery
STOCKHOLM - Swedish fashion retailer H&M says its sales fell 10% in the fourth quarter as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic stalled consumer spending, cutting short a promising recovery see...
Dec 15, 2020
Publishing saw upheaval in 2020, but 'books are resilient'
NEW YORK - Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same. "A lot of what has happened this year - if it were a novel, I would...
Dec 14, 2020
US sanctions NATO ally Turkey over Russian missile defence
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Monday imposed sanctions on its NATO ally Turkey over its purchase of a Russian air defence system, in a striking move against a longtime partner that sets the...
Dec 14, 2020
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