Uber is cutting nearly 4,000 jobs as the coronavirus pandemic results in a drop in demand. The US company will reduce its global customer support and recruiting teams by approximately 3,700 full-time roles – roughly 14% of its 26,900-person workforce. Chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi is also set to waive his base salary – set at $1 million (£809,690) in 2019 […]

A MILLIONAIRE mayor yesterday did a U-turn after he was blasted for closing his town’s parks while he spent the lockdown in his mansion. Former hedge fund manager Andy Preston, who lives in a £4m grade-II listed pad with huge grounds, was slammed for shutting three parks in Middlesbrough, in defiance of Government advice. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus live blog […]

Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti is going for a second round of furloughs among other cost-cutting measures in a bid to keep the news organization’s coronavirus-related losses under $20 million this year. Starting on May Peretti will furlough 68 US employees for three months. Some overseas staffers will also be furloughed over varying periods. Peretti will negotiate with the News Guild […]

Youngest Labour MP is SACKED by care home she returned to work at during coronavirus crisis after exposing the lack of PPE Labour MP Nadia Whittome returned to Nottingham to work as a carer She was elected as the youngest MP, aged 24, in last year’s general election  Whittome said the care home locked down PPE store cupboards amid fears […]

SUPREME Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg blasted the Trump administration on Wednesday for a rule that lets businesses to opt out of providing free birth control for women. The 87-year-old slammed Solicitor General Noel Francisco for allowing the government to "toss to the wind" an essential service. Ginsburg made the pointed remarks from her hospital bed, where she is being […]

A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a police officer was viciously attacked in an alleyway in North London. Just after 7pm tonight officers pursed a suspect vehicle in Dartmouth Road, Hendon. A man fled from his vehicle and was found by a cop in an alleyway in the Park Road area. After chasing down the […]

HEALTHCARE workers are being treated by Dunkin’, Subway, Nike, and other companies to commemorate National Nurses Week — and for the essential employees’ hard work amid the pandemic. Nike said on Monday the athletic wear company is donating more than 140,000 pieces of footwear, apparel, and equipment across the globe. “The effort is led by messages of gratitude to healthcare […]

A Michigan mother has been arraigned on murder and gun charges in the fatal shooting of a Family Dollar security guard in an alleged dispute over a face mask. Prosecutors believe Sharmel Teague, 45, sparked the argument that led to Friday’s shooting death of security guard Calvin Munerlyn, 43, as he enforced a face mask policy at the store in […]

ELON Musk has ridiculed the British scientist who ordered a lockdown of the United Kingdom — but flouted social distancing guidelines to meet with his married lover. Musk tweeted on Tuesday that Neil Ferguson, a 51-year-old professor and top scientist in the UK government, was a “tool” after he allowed Antonia Staats, 38, to visit him at his home. Ferguson […]

Is history repeating itself? 2020 has been as hard-hit by coronavirus as 1918 was by the Spanish flu despite scientific progress A staggering 675,000 Americans were wiped out by the Spanish flu, which is thought to have infected one-third of the global population More than 71,000 Americans have been killed by coronavirus and more than 1.2 million infected so far  […]