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Los Angeles passes measure limiting homeless encampments

LOS ANGELES: The Los Angeles City Council passed a sweeping anti-camping measure Thursday that will severely limit widespread homeless encampments that have become an eyesore across the city. The measure was billed as a compassionate approach to get people off streets and restore access to public spaces in the city with nation’s second-largest homeless population, […]

Business

Robinhood Reveals Rising Revenue and a $1.4 Billion Loss

The company’s shareholders, however, stuck with it. Within a week, it raised two rounds of emergency funding totaling $4.4 billion to meet lending requirements for stock trades and to continue making trades. That funding resulted in Robinhood’s outsize loss in the first three months of the year. Robinhood attracted scrutiny from regulators long before the […]

Sports

Follow live: USWNT faces Mexico in pre-Olympic friendly

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UAE Bars Citizens From Travelling To India, Pakistan, Other Countries

However, cargo flights, as well as business and charter flights, would be exempted. (File) Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has banned its citizens from traveling to several countries including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. This comes after the UAE last month extended the travel ban on passengers from 14 countries until […]

Business

Here’s How Biden Aims to Increase Electric Car Sales

But if a final infrastructure package includes little or no spending on electric vehicles, a tougher tailpipe rule would likely face opposition from automakers, who would be forced to build and try to sell costly electric cars. And autoworker unions are also likely to fight a rapid federal push toward electric vehicles absent any help […]

Sports

Atlanta Hawks’ Trae Young ruled out for Game 5 vs. Milwaukee Bucks

6:53 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN MILWAUKEE — The Atlanta Hawks will once again be without superstar guard Trae Young for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals because of a bone bruise in his right foot. Young was a game-time decision again on Thursday night. But, like prior to Game 4 Tuesday night in Atlanta, […]

Politics

Personal Independence Payments: ‘Have I less than six months to live?’

The government has been accused of creating a ‘two tier welfare system’ for people who have terminal illnesses by two charities. A review of rules which fast-track access to benefits for people who only have six months or less to live was launched two years ago in England and Wales but has not been published. […]

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Jeff Bezos picks female aerospace pioneer to launch with him

CAPE CANAVERAL: Sixty years after acing astronaut tests but barred because she was a woman, Wally Funk will rocket into space alongside Jeff Bezos in just three weeks. Bezos’ company Blue Origin announced Thursday that the pioneering pilot will be aboard the July 20 launch from West Texas, flying in the capsule as an “honored […]

Business

Trump Was Not Indicted. But the Charges Still Threaten Him.

“Allen Weisselberg’s a very good man, and he’s been treated horribly,” he said, characterizing the indictment as political persecution. Mr. Trump did not respond directly to a question about whether the organization had systematically avoided its tax burdens, as it stood accused of doing, but called the case “ridiculous.” His reluctance to discuss the allegations […]

Technology

UPI transactions surge to ₹5.47 lakh crore in June

UPI enabled digital transactions surged 11.6 per cent month-on-month to ₹5.47 lakh crore in June this year, NPCI data showed on Thursday. In May 2021, the UPI (unified payments interface) transactions stood at ₹4.91 lakh crore. In terms of numbers, there were as many as 2.80 billion (280 crore) transactions during the month under review, […]