Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images News) Colorado authorities have issued an $ 8.9 million fine against Uber for authorizing drivers who had prior disqualifying criminal or vehicle-related offenses. According to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, Uber allowed 57 drivers over the last 18 months who should not have been permitted to drive for the […]
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It’s time to admit that allowing men into the workplace was a huge mistake
Is it even natural for men to be in the workplace in the first place? Do men really have judgment and intellectual abilities to be entrusted with our most important resources? Over and over, they have failed: harassing, assaulting, leering, grabbing, menacing, rubbing, “joking,” and on and on. It’s time to do what’s right and […]
Congress Votes to Overturn Rule Allowing Consumers to File Class-Action Lawsuits Against Banks
Senate Overturns Rule to File Class-Action Lawsuits on Banks Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not […]
California Takes Another Step Toward Allowing Fully Self-Driving Vehicles
The state’s DMV could make it easier to operate a human-free by early next year. https://media.wired.com/photos/59de7e1dc9636005e0d387eb/master/pass/DriveAI-FeatureArt.jpg Feed: All Latest
Saudi King issues decree allowing women to drive – state TV
Published time: 26 Sep, 2017 19:12 Edited time: 26 Sep, 2017 19:24 King Salman of Saudi Arabia has issued a decree ordering that women be allowed to drive, Saudi state media has reported. Under the conservative kingdom’s previous laws, women were banned from driving. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Let’s block ads! (Why?) RT – Daily news
Nurse forcibly arrested for not allowing cop to draw blood of unconscious patient (VIDEO)
Bodycam video shows a Salt Lake City police detective grabbing a frightened nurse and twisting her arm before handcuffing her at University Hospital, all because she cited policy not allowing him to draw blood from an unconscious patient. “I’m just trying to do what I’m supposed to do,” nurse Alex Wubbels explained to Detective Jeff […]
States are increasingly allowing guns on college campuses
(AP Photo/Eric Gay) A community college instructor in Texas recently started off the academic year by wearing a bulletproof vest and army helmet to class. He did this to protest a law that, starting this August, authorizes individuals to carry concealed handguns at public community colleges in Texas. In 2016, the same law had already […]
The $37 billion supplement industry is barely regulated — and it’s allowing dangerous products to slip through the cracks
Flickr/B Rosen The $ 37 billion supplement industry is largely unregulated Some supplements (a category that includes vitamins and herbs) can be dangerous and have been linked with ER visits and death The FDA is currently recalling supplements found to be contaminated with banned drugs and bacteria New supplement companies like Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop continue to advertise their products as […]
Nanoparticles fool your body into allowing organ transplants
Organ transplants are frequently life-saving, but they remain a gamble when your body can reject the new organ well after the initial surgery. Yale researchers have discovered a clever solution to this: prevent your body from noticing the organ until it settles in. They’ve developed a drug delivery system that uses nanoparticles to slowly supply […]
Putin signs deal allowing Russian Air Force to stay in Syria for almost half a century
Published time: 27 Jul, 2017 19:45 Russian President Vladimir Putin has endorsed a bill ratifying a protocol to the 2015 agreement between Moscow and Damascus regulating the deployment of the Russian Air Force in Syria for 49 years. The protocol signed by Russia and Syria in January 2017 regulates issues related to the deployment of […]
