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Trump clashes with sports world over player protests, invitation
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and the sports world engaged in an intensifying spat on Saturday after he called for National Football League owners to fire players who protest during the U.S. national anthem and disinvited a National Basketball Association star from a White House visit. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Saturday that Trump’s statements revealed “unfortunate lack of respect” for the NFL and its players. Goodell’s statement was released a day after Trump suggested any protesting football player was a “son of a bitch” and should
Read MoreFrance’s Neovacs takes on GSK and AstraZeneca in battle to treat lupus
PARIS (Reuters) – French biotech company Neovacs is confident that its experimental drug to treat lupus could grab significant market share from standard treatments of the auto-immune disease, its chief executive said. About 5 million people globally suffer from some form of lupus, the Lupus foundation of America says, affecting multiple organs and leading to a range of symptoms that can include skin rashes, swollen joints and fevers. Until now, treatments from the likes of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and AstraZeneca’s MedImmune have focused on the use of monoclonal antibodies, but Neovacs
Read MoreBack-breaking labor helped these four-star generals on their way
NEW YORK (Reuters) – You have to be pretty tough to make it as a four-star general in the U.S. military. So it makes sense that some top military commanders would get their starts working in rigorous first jobs. For the latest in Reuters’ “First Jobs” series, we talked to a few retired generals about the life lessons they learned early on. Martin Dempsey Four-star general, Army; former chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff First job: Busboy When I turned 16 back in 1968, I worked in a little diner in Read More
Posts, tweets spread widely as the Harvey missing are sought
Photos with pleas for help in finding the missing from Tropical Storm Harvey are being posted, cut-and-pasted and retweeted by thousands of people as desperate family members seek loved ones who they fear might be dead, but may only have a dead phone. No official number of the unaccounted-for had been released Tuesday night amid the vast uncertainty of the storm’s fourth day, with authorities saying the 18 deaths confirmed so far could surge in the days to come. Pictures and pleas for dozens of toddlers, brothers and grandfathers are Read More
Vietnam tries dozens of bankers for graft, mismanagement
Nearly 50 bankers are on trial in Vietnam for alleged graft and mismanagement causing $69 million in losses to a joint stock bank. The case is part of communist authorities’ efforts to tackle corruption. Among those accused are Ocean Bank’s former chairman Ha Van Tham and general manager Nguyen Xuan Son, who are accused of embezzling $2.2 million and abuse of power in appropriating another $8.8 million. At the time the bank was 20 percent owned by state oil-and-gas giant PetroVietnam, where Son had previously served as chairman. Another 44 Read More