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Robot tractors cause furrowed brows at Vegas tech show
AFP, Published on 06/01/2022
» LAS VEGAS - Driverless ploughs and autonomous tools to weed vegetable plots are the latest innovations ready to help farmers juggling labor shortages, climate change and environmental protection, while trying to feed a growing world population.
CES tech fair prepares to draw crowds as Covid surges
AFP, Published on 03/01/2022
» LAS VEGAS: The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), one of the world's largest trade fairs, returns to Las Vegas in person this week under a newly resurgent pandemic that has supercharged the industry but threatens its downsized expo.
US Starbucks workers score union breakthrough
AFP, Published on 10/12/2021
» BUFFALO - Workers at two Starbucks cafes in Buffalo, New York voted to establish a union, the first at the coffee chain's company-owned shops in the United States.
Frustrated and weary over long pandemic hours, more US workers are striking
AFP, Published on 17/10/2021
» NEW YORK - Exhausted after working long hours during the coronavirus pandemic and resentful that their bosses are not sharing sometimes huge profits, tens of thousands of nurses, laborers and entertainment workers are going on strike across the United States.
More than 10,000 Deere workers go on strike in US
AFP, Published on 15/10/2021
» NEW YORK - More than 10,000 workers with Deere & Company launched a strike at 14 facilities across the United States Thursday after overwhelmingly rejecting a contract negotiated between the farm equipment company and union leadership.
Glover ends PGA title drought with John Deere Classic triumph
AFP, Published on 12/07/2021
» LOS ANGELES: Former US Open champion Lucas Glover notched his first PGA Tour victory in more than a decade Sunday, firing a final-round 64 to win the John Deere Classic by two strokes.
Munoz takes one-shot lead into final round of PGA John Deere Classic
AFP, Published on 11/07/2021
» LOS ANGELES - Sebastian Munoz fired six birdies in a four-under par 67 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead over American Brandon Hagy into the final round of the US PGA Tour John Deere Classic.
Major blast hits Nashville after chilling bomb warning
AFP, Published on 26/12/2020
» WASHINGTON: A huge blast tore through a section of downtown Nashville early Friday, after police responding to reports of gunfire discovered a parked motorhome blaring a warning that it carried a bomb.
Trump in quarantine as close aide gets positive Covid test
AFP, Published on 02/10/2020
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said late Thursday he would go into quarantine after a top aide tested positive for coronavirus, in a shock development that threatened to disrupt his scheduled public appearances in the crucial final weeks of the election campaign.
Trump returned from Paris in 2018 with art from US envoy's residence
AFP, Published on 07/09/2020
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has come under heavy fire for his decision in 2018 not to visit a US military cemetery while in Paris on an official visit.