Women in the workplace 2019 report
Lareina Yee, McKinsey’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and Rachel Thomas, LeanIn.Org’s co-Founder and CEO, discuss the 'Women in the Workplace 2019' study on Yahoo Finance's The Final Round.
Lareina Yee, McKinsey’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and Rachel Thomas, LeanIn.Org’s co-Founder and CEO, discuss the 'Women in the Workplace 2019' study on Yahoo Finance's The Final Round.
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele released the father of a Salvadoran soccer player from prison after the athlete published a plea for his release on social media, authorities confirmed on Wednesday. Marcelo “El Chiky” Díaz, who plays for El Salvador's national team, on Tuesday published a letter on X, formerly Twitter, saying his father was wrongfully arrested by police as a suspected gang member on the way to see him play on March 30. Díaz pleaded directly to Bukele, who has a firm clench on power after being reelected in February despite a constitutional ban on reelection.
The U.S. central bank released its latest snapshot on the health of the economy a day after Fed Chair Jerome Powell ditched previous guidance on when its benchmark interest rate may be cut and instead said monetary policy needs to be restrictive for longer due to a string of stronger-than-expected inflation readings. "Overall economic activity expanded slightly ... Ten out of twelve Districts experienced either slight or modest economic growth," the Fed said in the survey known as the "Beige Book," which polled business contacts across the central bank's 12 districts through April 8. "The economic outlook among contacts was cautiously optimistic, on balance."
The new draft of the global pandemic agreement has been released to countries ahead of Thursday's deadline, with a more streamlined take on how the world should handle future pandemics. It would commit countries to a more equitable geographical distribution and scaling up of the global production of pandemic-related health products.
Belgium and the Czech Republic on Wednesday urged a summit of EU leaders to consider new sanctions targeting "malign activities" by Moscow, in response to suspicions of Russian interference ahead of June elections in the bloc.In a joint letter with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, De Croo argued that "it is the right time to establish a new EU restrictive measure regime aimed to counter Russian malign activities."
Facebook owner Meta and other online platforms must not force users to pay for the right to data protection enshrined in EU law when offering ad-free subscriptions, the European data regulator said Wednesday. "Today's EDPB opinion does not alter that judgment and subscription for no ads complies with EU laws," a Meta spokesperson said.
Rightwing influencers were briefed on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s election bill before his meeting and press conference with Donald Trump.
Ukraine and Israel both desperately need the military weapons that are being held up by Congress' failure to pass a funding package for the two countries at war, Pentagon leaders told House appropriators Wednesday, calling the situation in Ukraine dire. “Whether it’s munitions, whether it’s vehicles, whether it's platforms," Ukraine is being outmatched by the Russians, Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said G7 finance leaders were working towards a plan to unlock the value of frozen Russian sovereign assets to aid Ukraine in the near term, but the talks are still a "work in progress." Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven industrial democracies are meeting on Wednesday on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington to discuss how to harness some $300 billion worth of frozen Russian assets. Adeyemo told an event hosted by the Semafor news outlet that finance ministers were doing technical work to come up with options so that G7 leaders can make decisions on a path forward at a June summit in Italy.
The House seat in southwest Washington state is among Republicans' top targets to expand their majority in 2024 — if they can nominate a candidate who can win.
Leaders of Columbia University defended the prestigious New York school's efforts to combat anti-Semitism on campus at a fiery congressional hearing on Wednesday.Republican lawmaker Virginia Foxx, the committee chair, accused Columbia of being a "hotbed of anti-Semitism and hate" and said "anti-Semitism must have no safe harbor in American universities."
In a dramatic rescue a brave neighbor, Oscar Rivera. is seen pulling residents out of a Pennsylvania home that has been engulfed by black smoke.
The Biden administration is expected to grant a request by South Korea’s Hanwha Qcells to reverse a two-year-old trade exemption that has allowed imports of a dominant solar panel technology from China and other countries to avoid tariffs, two sources familiar with the White House plans said on Wednesday. The request, which has not previously been reported, comes as Qcells is seeking to protect a pledged $2.5 billion expansion of its U.S. solar manufacturing presence against competition from cheaper Asian-made products. The solar division of Korean conglomerate Hanwha Corp outlined the request in a formal petition to the U.S. Trade Representative on Feb. 23.
The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath in Butte, Montana, leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a brief walk, stopping noontime traffic on the city's busiest street before being loaded back into a trailer. Viola, an Asian elephant with the Jordan World Circus, still participated in two performances Tuesday after her time on the lam in the southwestern Montana city of about 35,000 people that in the late 1800s was the world's largest copper-producing area. Viola was getting a bath behind the Butte Civic Center just after noon on Tuesday when she was startled, Civic Center manager Bill Melvin said.
The international community must do more to make the world's richest companies and individuals pay their "fair" share of taxes, Brazil and France's finance ministers said Wednesday.- Billionaire tax - Le Maire also called on the world's richest individuals to pay more in tax, outlining a series of steps to boost transparency and information-sharing between countries in order to better determine the correct amount of tax that the world's super-rich should pay.
One of Colombia's most powerful guerrilla groups has suffered an internal rupture expected to further complicate the country's troubled peace process.- In 2016, when former president Juan Manuel Santos was finalizing a historic peace accord with the FARC, the country's biggest rebel group, some guerrilla factions announced they were breaking away from a process that they believed implied "military defeat."
An Oklahoma judge ordered public defenders to represent four members of an anti-government group who appeared in court Wednesday on charges of kidnapping and killing two Kansas women. The judge also entered not-guilty pleas and denied bail for Tifany Adams, 54, and her boyfriend Tad Cullum, 43, both of Keyes, Oklahoma, as well as Cole and Cora Twombly of Texhoma, Oklahoma. Texas County Associate District Judge Clark Jett assigned the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System to represent all four defendants, OIDS Executive Director Tim Laughlin told The Associated Press.
Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday he is sticking with his plan to put a series of foreign aid bills on the floor including funding for Ukraine after facing significant pressure from hardliners.
Six people have been arrested in last year’s multimillion-dollar gold heist at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, police in Canada and the US said Wednesday.
The Senate began its showdown over the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday as Democrats are expected to move quickly to dismiss the articles, while Republicans insist there must be a full trial.
In-N-Out isn’t your typical burger joint, and it insists expanding its footprint won’t change that.