Kurt Volker, the US special representative for Ukraine, has resigned from his post, confirmed NBC News on Friday. Volker informed about his resignation to Mike Pompeo, US secretary of state on Friday but did not offer any public explanation. Volker served in the special envoy role in an attempt to aid Ukraine to resolve its … Read more
Walmart Inc, the giant US retailer declared a ban on the sale of e-cigarettes and Electronic Nicotine in any of its stores in the United States. The sudden stop is due to elevated death reports of young adults using vaping products. On Friday, the Walmart employees received a memorandum that stated the concern of the … Read more
The San Francisco based payments platform Stripe is mounting the gradation of being the most highly valuable Silicon firms. On Thursday, the Fintech start-up announced a further $250mn funding round, bringing its worth to a whopping $35bn. This makes Stripe the third most valued startup in the US after Airbnb and Palantir Technologies. According to … Read more
Significant changes are coming to the Walmart stores across the US. A month after prohibiting the advertisement of video games and movies ‘violent’ in nature in its store, Walmart now is rolling back on ammunition. The superstore announced on Tuesday that it would not sell certain types of ammunition nationwide. In fact, the chain has … Read more
Companies such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, which are offering plant-based meat substitutes, are crowding the US grocery stores. Beyond Meat, specifically, has become a popular choice among customers currently. The company’s plant-based began burger that bleeds is available at many famous food chains now like Carl’s Jr, A&W and TGI Fridays. In September, … Read more
North Carolina has sued 8 e-cigarette firms for allegedly selling products to the kids, amid an increasing no. of US teenagers getting addicted to vaping. On Tuesday, John Stein, the attorney general of North Carolina announced about his office lodging separate lawsuits against the firms Direct eLiquid, Beard Vape, Electric Tobacconist, Electric Lotus, Juice Man, … Read more
KFC has started offering meatless chicken from the plant-based food company Beyond Meat. The KFC Franchise near the SunTrust Park baseball stadium in Atlanta offers this amazing plant-based chicken. This deal makes the KFC, Atlanta first fast-food restaurant to serve plant-based chicken. KFC is not the only one which serves this Beyond fried chicken. As … Read more
T-Mobile merger with Sprint is facing the opposition by a long list of Attorney Generals. These attorneys are trying to block the deal saying the merger will harm competition. And it will cost residents $4.5 billion annually. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton along with 15 more states Attorney general filed the initial suit in June. … Read more
On Wednesday Medicare announced that it would cover modernized and highly-priced cancer treatment in the United States of America. The Trump government took this decision to save the lives of millions of American citizens. There are citizens for whom cancer treatment is unbearable. Due to lack of proper treatment, patients are expiring much before their … Read more
An adult film actress Katrina Danforth admitted on Monday that she had tried to hire a hitman for $5,000 to kill her ex-lover and the father of one of her children and pleaded guilty in Federal Court in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Danforth, 32, worked in pornographic films named as Lynn Pleasant and Lynn Passion. She … Read more