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Over £2,000 raised at auction in memory of young farmer Hannah Brown CCM Hannah Brown Memorial Sale 04.05.21 Lancaster Swaledale More than £2,200 was raised at an auction in memory of young farmer Hannah Brown whose death aged just 26 left the agricultural world in deep shock. Hannah had become a well-known and greatly respected figure at Skipton at her family farm in Newton-le-Willows, then later in her own right as both a breeder and show winner. Hannah moved to Dufton in 2019 to live with farming fiancé Ben Richardson and last August the couple had a daughter, Millie, now nine months ol...

Climate Change Presents Opportunity for Beijing to Expand Global Power: Chinese Professor The Chinese communist regime views climate change as an opportunity to expand its influence worldwide, according to a prominent Chinese academic. The global emissions reduction agenda can not only help the regime economically but also has “political significance” for Beijing, Di Dongsheng, associate dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing, wrote in his blog on April 27. “It can help [us] to regulate and control the social, political, and economic environment,” ...

We'll soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... Amazon reported that its profit in the recently ended quarter tripled as online sales boomed. Revenue soared to $108.5 billion, an increase of 44% from the same period a year earlier, as the pandemic fueled a trend of shopping online instead of in real-world stores. Profit in the quarter was $8.1 billion, compared with $2.5 billion in the first three months of last year. The Amazon Web Services unit that hosts services and data in the internet cloud saw revenue in the quarter climb to $13.5 billion. People and businesses turning to the interne...

Amazon PHOTO: Reuters A week of blockbuster earnings reports from Big Tech culminated Thursday with Amazon crushing forecasts of how much money it would rake in from pandemic-revved online shopping and growing reliance on internet-hosted services. The e-commerce colossus is among the internet giants whose businesses thrived as precautions against Covid-19 led people around the world to go online for work, school, shopping and socializing. Amazon reported that its profit in the recently ended quarter tripled as online sales boomed. Revenue soared to $108.5 billion, an increase of 44 perce...

By executive order, federally contracted workers will be paid at least $15 an hour beginning Jan. 30, 2022. President Joe Biden signs an executive order on climate change in the State Dining Room of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON (CN) — President Joe Biden is boosting federal contractors’ wages to $15 per hour starting next year, per an executive order he signed Tuesday. Not since 2014, under then-President Barack Obama, has the minimum wage for federal contractors seen an increase. The rate is currently $10.95 an hour. According to the Biden...