Payments Show Restaurants Adapted to Pandemic, Says Shift4 CEO
Nov.24 -- Jared Isaacman, chief executive officer at Shift4 Payments Inc., discusses the hospitality industry's road to recovery amid the Covid-19 pandemic on "Bloomberg Technology."
Nov.24 -- Jared Isaacman, chief executive officer at Shift4 Payments Inc., discusses the hospitality industry's road to recovery amid the Covid-19 pandemic on "Bloomberg Technology."
Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen is calling on Congress to do more to fight a deep pandemic-induced recession, saying the threats of a longer and even worse downturn are too great to cut back on support now. “Without further action, we risk a longer, more painful recession now — and long-term scarring of the economy later,” Yellen said in testimony prepared for her confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee. Yellen, who will be the first female treasury secretary in the nation's history, is expected to have little trouble winning approval in a Senate that will be narrowly controlled by Democrats once two Democratic senators from Georgia are seated.
Singapore may be considering another round of measures to cool residential prices, according to market analysts, who see recent ministerial remarks as a signal for the possible move.
President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal status, a massive reversal from the Trump administration's harsh immigration policies. The legislation puts Biden on track to deliver on a major campaign promise important to Latino voters and other immigrant communities after four years of President Donald Trump's restrictive policies and mass deportations.
Police stopped a car of Black men and confiscated two of their guns at Virginia's annual "Lobby Day" on Monday while white gun rights activists defied local laws unimpeded in the state capital of Richmond. In a day with racial tensions on display, Black protesters denounced what they called a double standard in a state where people are free to openly carry firearms. Virginians converge on the capitol each Lobby Day to petition state legislators on issues of public interest, but the day has been dominated by gun rights activists in recent years.
How Reddit introduced him to the director and his style. This article, 10 things about the filmmaker who gave Singapore the Wes Anderson touch, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading alternative media company.
A full-time national serviceman cheated the Ministry of Social and Family Development of COVID-19 funds several times.
Back when the election was tightening and just a week away, Joe Biden went big. Evoking some of the nation's loftiest reforms helped Biden unseat President Donald Trump but left him with towering promises to keep.
The Philippines is now free of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus, the Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday, citing a declaration by the World Organization for Animal Health. "As of Jan. 8, the country is now free of the last remaining A(H5N6) strain of the avian Influenza," having resolved the outbreaks in Pampanga province and a village in Rizal, near the capital region, it said in a statement.
Joe Biden has given himself an imposing to-do list for his earliest days as president and many promises to keep over the longer haul. Overshadowing everything at the very start is Biden's effort to win congressional approval of a $1.9 trillion plan to combat the coronavirus and the economic misery it has caused. Altogether Biden has laid out an ambitious if not always detailed set of plans and promises across the range of public policy.
India's PV Sindhu cruised into the second round of the Thailand Open on Tuesday to erase the memory of her surprise first round exit a week earlier
Some 10 million children in war-ravaged Afghanistan are at risk of not having enough food to eat in 2021, a humanitarian organization said Tuesday, and called for billions in new funds for aid. Just over 18 million Afghans, including 9.7 million children, are badly in need of lifesaving support, including food, Save the Children said in a statement. Chris Nyamandi, the organization's Afghanistan country director, said Afghans are suffering under a combination of violent conflict, poverty and the virus pandemic.
As this is Men’s Artistic Director Virgil Abloh’s sixth collection for Louis Vuitton, the show will take place in Paris, France at the Tennis Club de Paris.
Johnny Gaudreau collected one goal and one assist to lead the Calgary Flames to a 5-2 home victory over the Vancouver Canucks Monday night. Jacob Markstrom stopped 25 shots for the Flames, who were dominated in the first period but flipped the script the rest of the way en route to a second consecutive victory over the Canucks. Trailing 1-0 after a first period in which the Canucks held a 16-4 edge in shots, Gaudreau cued the comeback at the 12:05 mark of the middle frame.
Two albino deer were spotted wandering the wooded hills of Mingo County, West Virginia, on January 14.This footage, shot by Kermit resident Carter Messer from his car, shows the white deer moving among trees, trailing a darker deer.“I’ve seen several albino deer but this is the only time I have ever seen twins,” he told Storyful. Credit: Carter Messer via Storyful
Rescuers are in telephone contact with workers trapped for more than a week following an explosion in a gold mine in China and have been able to send them food and medicine, an official said Tuesday. Chen Fei, the mayor of the city of Yantai, said it appeared at least 12 of the 22 workers underground were alive and in relatively good health. The fate of the other 10 workers remained unknown.
De'Andre Hunter scored a season-high 25 points and Clint Capela recorded his fourth straight double-double to help the Atlanta Hawks to a 108-97 win over the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday. Capela scored 23 points, two shy of his season high, and grabbed 15 rebounds, his second straight game with that many boards. The Hawks, debuting their unique black uniforms with "MLK" on the front of the jerseys, ended a two-game losing streak.
Bam Adebayo produced his fifth double-double of the season with 28 points and 11 rebounds, helping the short-handed Miami Heat rally to a 113-107 win over the visiting Detroit Pistons on Monday night. Adebayo, who also had five assists, scored 13 of his points in the fourth quarter and made 10-of-11 from the foul line for the game. Miami, which trailed by as many as 19 points in the first quarter, was without four key players: Jimmy Butler and Avery Bradley (both due to COVID protocol) as well as Tyler Herro (neck) and Meyers Leonard (shoulder).
As Vietnam's ruling Communist Party gears up for its most important meeting in years, its leadership has presided over an intensified crackdown on dissent, according to rights groups, activists and data collated by Reuters. A record number of political prisoners, longer jail terms, and increased harassment of activists in recent years have contributed to the crackdown ahead of this week's Communist Party congress, a gathering to determine national leadership and policy that takes place once every five years. The crackdown has left some international human rights groups and lawmakers questioning whether Vietnam has breached the spirit of trade agreements with Western countries - accords that have helped propel the country to a position of economic strength in Southeast Asia.
A superyacht squeezed past a boat at a marina in Port Douglas, Queensland, on January 17, as Tropical Cyclone Kimi was predicted to head towards the state.Luke Coleman filmed a video that showed the superyacht narrowly moving past a smaller boat at Packers Creek.“Cyclone preparedness 101 – don’t hit the superyachts,” Coleman wrote on an Instagram post that featured the video.According to the Queensland Bureau of Meteorology, the system had weakened into a tropical low, but was still expected to bring heavy rainfall and strong winds to the North Tropical Coast on January 19. Credit: Luke Coleman via Storyful
China was dealing with coronavirus outbreaks across its frigid northeast on Tuesday, prompting additional lockdowns and travel bans ahead of next month's Lunar New Year holiday. Hebei province just outside Beijing saw another 35 cases, while Heilongjiang province bordering Russia reported 27 new cases. Beijing, where some residential communities and outlying villages have been placed under lockdown, reported just one new case.