Month: November 2019

FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian looks at his phone as he walks past a logo for Australia’s Westpac Banking Corp located outside a branch in central Sydney, Australia, November 5, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo (Reuters) – Australian lender Westpac Banking Corp (WBC.AX) said on Thursday it would let investors withdraw their share purchase applications filed prior
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FC Dallas acquired forward Fafa Picault from the Philadelphia Union in exchange for $300,000 of 2020 General Allocation Money and also signed defensive stalwart Matt Hedges to a three-year contract extension. FILE PHOTO: Oct 20, 2019; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia Union forward Fafa Picault (9) collides with New York Red Bulls goalkeeper Luis Robles (31)
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(Reuters) – William Ruckelshaus, picked by Richard Nixon as the first head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as deputy attorney general before being fired for defying the president in the Watergate scandal, died on Wednesday at the age of 87, U.S. media reported. FILE PHOTO: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Ruckelshaus appears in
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(Reuters) – Stock-trading startup Robinhood said on Wednesday it was withdrawing its bank charter application with the U.S Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Menlo Park, California-based firm is one of the several companies that aim to compete with traditional financial institutions by offering cheaper and more user friendly digital services. “Robinhood will
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FILE PHOTO: TV Chef Gary Rhodes (C) launches Manchester United’s own label champagne with models Emma Hartley (L) and Gaynor Smith at Old Trafford, Britain, July 9, 1997. REUTERS/Dan Chung/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – British chef and TV presenter Gary Rhodes has died at the age of 59, prompting tributes from Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Public support for impeaching President Donald Trump has tracked steadily higher over the past few weeks while a U.S. House of Representatives committee held a series of televised impeachment hearings, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for
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FILE PHOTO: A view through a fence decorated with the Olympic rings shows a building of the federal state budgetary institution which houses a laboratory accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), in Moscow, Russia on November 11, 2015. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will fully cooperate with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and
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