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- Apple Inc said it was committed to freedom of information and expression in a document it has published on its humans rights policy - a move which follows increased pressure from shareholders. The U.S. tech giant has come under fire for removing virtual network apps from its App store in China and at its February annual general meeting a shareholder proposal called on Apple to publicly commit “to respect freedom of expression as a human right”. While it was defeated, it gained 40.6% of votes cast - far more than similar motions put forward previously and enough to push the company to respond, experts said. “We believe in the critical importance of an open society in which information flows freely, and we’re convinced the best way we can continue to promote openness is to remain engaged, even where we may disagree with a country’s laws,” Apple states in the policy document. It said its policy was based on the United Nations’ guiding principles on business and human rights. Human righ

BERLIN - European food-ordering firm Just Eat Takeaway.com NV thinks GrubHub is better positioned than rivals to prosper in the United States even though it has been pushed into third place, its operating chief told Reuters. The food delivery business has seen a land grab in the last year as companies vie for the market leading positions they say they need to keep customers coming back to their apps. Netherlands-based Takeaway sealed the acquisition of Britain’s Just Eat, a company larger than itself, in January and the combined firm then agreed in June to buy U.S. peer GrubHub for $7.3 billion. The GrubHub acquisition should be completed in the first half of 2021 and the company is well positioned to succeed, Just Eat Takeaway’s Chief Operating Officer Joerg Gerbig said in an interview in the company’s offices in Berlin. “GrubHub is profitable. The largest market by far is New York. The company is particularly well represented on the East Coast,” Gerbig said. The company’s main rival

MOSCOW - The Kremlin said on Friday that it wanted dialogue with Germany over the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and that Russian doctors who treated him initially were much more transparent that the German doctors treating him now. Germany, where Navalny is in hospital, has said he was poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent and wants the perpetrators held to account. Russia has until now not opened a criminal investigation and said there is no evidence yet of a crime. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow wanted to find out through dialogue with Germany what exact substance caused Navalny to fall ill. He said Russian specialists were looking into the case.

WASHINGTON - The White House has asked U.S. government agencies for extensive details of any funding that seeks to counter China’s global influence and business practices, or supports Beijing, amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing. According to an Aug. 27 White House Office of Management and Budget document seen by Reuters, the OMB directed U.S. agencies to submit “cross-cutting data on federal funding that aids or supports China, or that directly or indirectly counters China’s unfair competition and malign activities and influence globally.” China denies it engages in unfair competitive practices. The document, titled “Strategic Competition with China Crosscut,” does not say how the information will be used other than that it will “inform policymakers” of the myriad ways U.S. government spending involves China. The United States and China have grown antagonistic toward each other with disagreements that stretch from a two-year-old trade war, to the Trump administrati

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian prosecutors on Friday withdrew criminal charges against three Goldman Sachs units accused of misleading investors over $6.5 billion in bond sales they helped organize for a state fund, the Bernama state news agency reported. The move comes after Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $3.9 billion to Malaysia to settle a probe into its alleged role in the scandal involving the fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), which counts former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak as one of its co-founders. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates $4.5 billion was misappropriated from 1MDB between 2009 and 2014, including some of the funds that Goldman Sachs helped raise. The units - based in London, Hong Kong and Singapore - had pleaded not guilty in February and the bank has consistently denied wrongdoing. “Goldman Sachs International Ltd, Goldman Sachs LLC and Goldman Sachs are therefore discharged amounting to an acquittal from all four charges made against them,” Bernam

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday defended his appearance from Israel at the Republican National Convention last week, saying he did this in his personal capacity and a State Department review concluded that it was lawful. Pompeo, a Trump appointee often believed to harbor presidential aspirations, addressed the convention in a recorded video from a Jerusalem rooftop during an official trip. Critics said he broke with decades of protocol in using his appointed office for partisan purposes. “The State Department reviewed this, it was lawful and I personally felt it was important that the world hear the message of what this administration has accomplished,” Pompeo said in a news conference at the State Department. In his remarks to the Republican convention, Pompeo described what he called Trump’s foreign policy successes, including the president’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and holding talks with North Korean leadership. Pompeo’

- Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee said on Wednesday that they raised a combined $364.5 million in August, shattering the monthly record for fundraising by a presidential campaign. The amount included more than $205 million from online, small-dollar donations, according to the campaign. Biden, who is leading Republican President Donald Trump in most national opinion polls ahead of the Nov. 3 election, raised $140 million in July, but was outpaced by Trump and his allied groups, who raked in $165 million. The previous monthly record - $193 million - was set by former President Barack Obama in September 2008, according to U.S. media outlets. Biden’s haul for August is likely attributable to a number of factors, including the introduction of U.S. Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, enthusiasm over Biden’s nomination at the Democratic convention and mounting fears among Democratic donors that the race between Biden and Trump is tighten

WASHINGTON - U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy received a subpoena from a congressional panel on Wednesday seeking documents connected to his decision to implement changes that Democrats said threatened mail deliveries and the 2020 election. Representative Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat who chairs the Oversight and Reform Committee, said on Monday that DeJoy had not turned over any additional documents after a hearing. A spokeswoman for Maloney confirmed on Wednesday the subpoena had been served and that DeJoy must turn over documents by Sept. 16. A spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service confirmed receipt of the subpoena and said the agency was “surprised and confused by Chairwoman Maloney’s insistence on issuing a subpoena to the Postal Service in the midst of ongoing dialogue with her staff.” DeJoy, who made changes in mid-July that critics said were significantly delaying deliveries, agreed to suspend operational changes until Election Day on Nov. 3 but did not reverse all reforms.

NEW YORK - U.S. job growth slowed further in August as financial assistance from the government ran out, threatening the economy’s recovery from the COVID-19 recession. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 1.371 million jobs last month after advancing 1.734 million in July, the Labor Department’s closely watched employment report showed on Friday. The unemployment rate fell to 8.4% from 10.2% in July. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 1.4 million jobs added in August and the unemployment rate sliding to 9.8%. U.S. stock futures turned slightly higher in a tight range after the data, U.S. Treasury yields rose as did the U.S. dollar index. STOCKS: U.S. stock index futures reversed slight losses, with S&P 500 e-minis EScv1 last up 0.25%, pointing to a firmer open BONDS: Yields on benchmark 10-year notes US10YT=RR rose to 0.6706%; Two-year Treasury yields rose to 0.1349% FOREX: The dollar index =USD was up 0.3% PETER CARDILLO, CHIEF MARKET ECONOMIST, SPARTAN CAPITAL SECURITIES,

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Congress faces a tight deadline to avoid a government shutdown as lawmakers begin returning to Washington next week, complicated by bitter conflicts between Republicans and Democrats over the next package of coronavirus aid. The Republican-led Senate is due back on Tuesday, while the Democratic-led House of Representatives plans to hold votes on bills starting the following week. With congressional elections on Nov. 3, both chambers have very few days left to finish work as lawmakers plan to campaign in their home states for much of October. The federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, so they will have to scurry to reach a deal on legislation funding government programs and averting a partial shutdown that could be especially damaging to lawmakers facing re-election in November. On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany expressed optimism that agreement will be reached in a timely way. Congress is widely expected to pass a temporary measure mainly f

- The gap in unemployment rates between Blacks and whites in the United States widened for a fourth straight month in August, and the spread between the races is now the largest in nearly six years. The jobless rate for Blacks dropped by 1.6 percentage points to 13% in August from 14.6% in July, while the rate for whites dropped at a faster rate of 1.9 percentage points to 7.3% from 9.2% a month earlier. The overall U.S. unemployment rate fell more than expected last month to 8.4% from 10.2% in July. The 5.7 percentage point gap was the widest since December 2014. One year earlier, in August 2019, the spread had been a record-low 2 percentage points. It was 2.5 points in April, when the U.S. economy shed a record 20.8 million jobs as a result of business shutdowns imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19. The racial gap in U.S. jobless rates has come under closer scrutiny in the months since the pandemic struck as minorities and women suffered an outsized share of job losses, exacerb

WASHINGTON - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Friday that the Trump administration would not “cut corners” in making a vaccine for the coronavirus available, although it wants to move as fast as possible to deliver something that is safe and effective. “We’re not going to cut corners in the development of a vaccine, but at the same time through Operation Warp Speed, the president has made it clear that we want a safe and effective vaccine available for the American people absolutely as soon as is possible to have,” Pence told Fox Business Network. Operation Warp Speed is the name for the administration’s vaccine development effort.

LONDON - Virgin Atlantic announced 1,150 more job cuts on Friday due to the coronavirus crisis, saying its 1.2 billion pound ($1.6 billion) rescue deal alone was not enough to secure its future. The airline, which had already announced around 3,500 job losses, completed the rescue deal with major shareholders and creditors on Friday after various court approvals. Chief Executive Shai Weiss said that while the deal was a major step forward towards survival, more action was needed. “After the sacrifices so many of our people have made, further reducing the number of people we employ is heart-breaking but essential for survival,” he said. Airlines across the world have been slashing jobs and seeking funds after the COVID-19 pandemic grounded most flights earlier this year and demand has been slow to recover amid continue restrictions in many countries. With the latest cuts, Virgin Atlantic, which is 51% owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and 49% by the U.S.’s Delta Air Lines In

- Amazon.com Inc is planning to create 10,000 more jobs in the next few years in Bellevue, Washington, the e-commerce giant said on Friday. The company has been setting up new offices across U.S. cities on the back of a meteoric rise in its business, thanks to a surge in online orders during coronavirus-induced lockdowns. Amazon had earlier said it would create 15,000 jobs in Bellevue, located 10 miles from its Seattle headquarters. In April and May, Amazon hired for 175,000 jobs ranging from warehouse staff to delivery drivers to keep up with the demand.

WASHINGTON - America’s largest police union on Friday endorsed President Donald Trump’s effort to win re-election, a potential boost to the leader’s message that he is the candidate of “law and order.” The Fraternal Order of Police, which has more than 355,000 members around the country, “is proud to endorse a candidate who calls for law and order across our nation,” union president Patrick Yoes said in a statement.

LONDON - Britain said it was sending an extra 1.5 million pounds ($1.98 million) to help support media and human rights organizations in Belarus, citing a need for independent media and to counter disinformation. “This additional funding will help to support independent media and those defending human rights in Belarus, at a time when objective and honest reporting is most vital,” a foreign office statement said. The additional cash would support projects over two years, and represents a doubling of existing aid to the sector, the statement said.

WASHINGTON - Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya called on the United Nations on Friday to condemn the crackdown by President Alexander Lukashenko on protesters who charge he rigged his re-election victory last month. Speaking to a virtual informal session of the U.N. Security Council, Tsikhanouskaya also urged the United Nations to send an international monitoring mission to Belarus and said the U.N. Human Rights Commission should hold a special session on the human rights situation there. Tsikhanouskaya also called on the international community to impose sanctions on the individuals responsible for electoral violations “and crimes against humanity.” “We, the Belarusian people, need the help of the United Nations, in order to stop blatant human rights violations and cynical disregard for human dignity,” Tsikhanouskaya said, making her first call for international involvement in the crisis. “We ask the United Nations to condemn the use of excessive force by the Bel

WASHINGTON - Four Republican state attorneys general led by Texas backed President Donald Trump’s push to narrow the ability of social media companies to remove objectionable content and require new transparency rules. Texas, Louisiana, Indiana and Missouri’s state attorneys general said in joint comments made public on Thursday that new rules are needed. They argue social media platforms cannot be truly free “unless the participants understand the rules of the forum, and competition is able to provide alternatives when speech restrictions go too far.” The attorneys general added that the “examples are legion of online platforms downplaying, editing, or even suppressing political speech that bears no relationship to the traditionally regulated categories of speech.” On Wednesday, a group representing major internet companies including Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject a petition filed by the Trump administratio

WASHINGTON - White House Spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said on Thursday there is no political pressure on the U.S. drugs regulator to quickly approve a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus disease, after drugmakers and the Centers for Disease Control suggested one could be ready just ahead of the November presidential election. “No one is pressuring the FDA to do anything,” McEnany said, referring to the Food and Drug Administration.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday strongly denied a magazine report saying he had called fallen U.S. military personnel buried in Europe “losers” and declined to visit an American cemetery during a trip to France because he thought it unimportant. The Atlantic magazine reported that Trump, a Republican running for re-election who has touted his record helping U.S. veterans, had referred to Marines buried in an American cemetery near Paris as “losers” and declined to visit in 2018 because of concern the rain that day would mess up his hair. Trump on Thursday told reporters the story was false. “To think that I would make statements negative to our military and fallen heroes when nobody has done what I’ve done,” for the U.S. armed forces, Trump said. “It’s a total lie. ... It’s a disgrace.” The president said he did not go to the cemetery because weather prevented a helicopter flight. The alternative, a long drive, would have meant going through very busy areas of Paris, a

- In the week since the Federal Reserve made a landmark shift in its approach to monetary policy, details are emerging on what it could look like in practice, with two Fed policymakers on Thursday saying they’d be comfortable with leaving interest rates near zero even if inflation rises to levels not seen on a sustained basis in some 30 years. Remarks from a number of Fed policymakers in recent days suggest that a shift to a more accommodative stance in pursuit of higher inflation isn’t imminent and that most feel the next move to support the economy needs to come from Congress. “Partisan politics threatens to endanger additional fiscal relief,” the president of the Chicago Fed, Charles Evans, told the Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce in Hammond, Indiana, in one of the sharpest rebukes yet from a Fed policymaker to lawmakers who have been at loggerheads for months over the size of a new relief package. “A lack of action or an inadequate one presents a very significant downside risk to

- Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren said on Friday the U.S. jobs report was stronger than he had expected. “At this point markets well understand that we are not planning raising rates any time soon,” Rosengren said in an interview with CNBC.

- Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday said the U.S. jobs report for August was “a good one,” but noted that with gains likely to slow, the central bank is planning to keep its foot on the monetary policy gas pedal for years. “We do think it will get harder from here — because of those areas of the economy that are so directly affected by the pandemic still,” Powell told National Public Radio in an interview, referring particularly to sectors like leisure, hospitality, travel and entertainment that depend on large gatherings made unsafe by the virus. Even as U.S. employers added 1.37 million jobs last month, the total number of jobs regained since the crisis has only been about half the total lost, leaving millions still out of work. “We think that the economy’s going to need low interest rates, which support economic activity, for an extended period of time ... it will be measured in years,” Powell said. “However long it takes, we’re going to be there.” The unemployment rate

BARCELONA - Barcelona fans breathed a sigh of relief on Friday, after Lionel Messi ended weeks of speculation by announcing he had decided, with reluctance, to stay at the club. Messi, who made a shock announcement that he wanted to leave his lifelong club last month, said he would see out his contract until 2021 in order to avoid taking Barca to court. “If he can stay for one more year and we can make the most of him and go see him play at the stadium, for me it’s very positive,” said FC Barcelona fan Oriol Vives, 31. Jorge Sos, 39, added: “I think it’s good news for Barcelona because he is the best player in the world.” Yet some fans felt the saga had soured Messi’s relationship with the club. “I think it’s good he isn’t leaving but with all the mess he has created, to be honest, it is not good for Barcelona because he doesn’t give the impression he wants to play for the team,” said Sergi Roda, 24. The 33-year-old Argentine forward took a swipe at the club’s leadership during th

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc ( FB.O ) on Friday removed the pages of U.S. right-wing group Patriot Prayer and its founder Joey Gibson, a company spokesman told Reuters. Patriot Prayer has hosted dozens of pro-gun, pro-Trump rallies. Attendees have repeatedly clashed with left-wing groups around Portland, Oregon, where one group supporter was killed this week. The victim, 39-year-old Aaron Danielson, was walking home on Saturday night after a pro-Trump demonstration in the city when he was shot. Facebook took down the pages as part of efforts to remove “violent social militias” from its social networks, spokesman Andy Stone said. The company updated its policies last month to ban groups that demonstrate significant risks to public safety. Its dangerous organizations policy now includes groups that celebrate violent acts or suggest they will use weapons, even if they are not directly organizing violence. In a statement posted on Patriot Prayer’s website, Gibson accused Facebook of a dou

- After an outcry from U.S. lawmakers, President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration would not be shutting down the Stars and Stripes military newspaper as announced by the Pentagon earlier this year. “The United States of America will NOT be cutting funding to @starsandstripes magazine under my watch,” Trump, who is running for re-election in November, said on Twitter. “It will continue to be a wonderful source of information to our Great Military!” he added. The independent military newspaper had been expected to stop publishing at the end of September after the Pentagon announced in February that it would be cutting its funding. Trump’s tweet comes a day after the Atlantic reported that he had referred to Marines buried in an American cemetery near Paris as “losers” and declined to visit in 2018 because of concern the rain that day would mess up his hair. Trump, who has touted his record helping U.S. veterans, has strongly denied the report. Earlier this week, more than

WASHINGTON - U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Friday that President Donald Trump respects American troops and veterans after a magazine report said Trump had called fallen U.S. military personnel buried in Europe “losers” and declined to visit an American cemetery because he thought it unimportant. “President Trump has the highest respect and admiration for our nation’s military members, veterans and families. That is why he has fought for greater pay and more funding for our armed forces,” Esper said in a statement. Trump on Thursday strongly denied the report from the Atlantic magazine. The Atlantic reported that Trump, a Republican running for re-election who has touted his record helping U.S. veterans, had referred to Marines buried in an American cemetery near Paris as “losers” and declined to visit in 2018 because of concern the rain that day would mess up his hair. The Atlantic report was sourced to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion of that day. “

WASHINGTON - The United States’ largest police union on Friday endorsed President Donald Trump’s re-election bid, boosting the Republican’s message that he is the candidate of “law and order” amid U.S. protests against police brutality and racial injustice. The Fraternal Order of Police, which has more than 355,000 members nationally, said Trump had shown his support and understanding for law enforcement officers facing civil unrest around the country in recent months. “The FOP is proud to endorse a candidate who calls for law and order across our nation,” Patrick Yoes, the union’s national president, said in a statement. Earlier on Friday, presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign said he had been endorsed by nearly 200 former and current law enforcement officials. The dueling endorsements came as Trump in recent weeks has emphasized a “law and order” message ahead of the Nov. 3 election, while Biden has tried to shift the focus back to Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

WASHINGTON - After parting ways with President Jerry Falwell Jr in the wake of personal scandals, Liberty University has hired a firm to investigate “all facets” of Falwell’s tenure, including the school’s financial and real estate operations. There may be much to untangle. Falwell, who took over as president of Liberty in 2007 after years as a lawyer handling its real estate interests, intertwined his personal finances with those of the evangelical Christian university founded by his father. He put his two sons - and their wives as well - on the university’s payroll. He arranged the transfer of a multi-acre Liberty facility to his personal trainer. He enlisted a friend’s construction company to manage an ambitious campus expansion costing hundreds of millions of dollars. And before becoming school president, Falwell set up two companies that enabled him to cut property deals with one of the many nonprofit entities affiliated with the university, Reuters found. In each of the deals,

WILMINGTON, Del. - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden accused U.S. President Donald Trump of failing to feel the economic pain caused by the coronavirus pandemic, after data on Friday showed job growth slowing and a widening racial gap in unemployment rates. The former vice president, pushing a campaign message that he is more in touch with working Americans than his rival in the Nov. 3 election, said the economic crisis has exacerbated divisions between the rich and the poor. “The painful truth is, we just have a president who just doesn’t see it, he doesn’t feel it, he doesn’t understand, he just doesn’t care. He thinks if the stock market is up, then everything’s fine,” Biden said during a speech in his home base of Wilmington, Delaware. As both campaigns kick into high gear for perhaps one of the most consequential presidential races in recent U.S. history, the Labor Department reported that nonfarm payrolls increased by 1.37 million jobs last month, fewer than in July. Tr

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is considering whether to add China’s top chipmaker SMIC to a trade blacklist, a Defense Department official said on Friday, as the United States escalates its crackdown on Chinese companies. A Pentagon spokeswoman said the Defense Department was working with other agencies to determine whether to make the move against Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ( 0981.HK ), which would force U.S. suppliers to seek a difficult-to-obtain license before shipping to the company. SMIC and the Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Earlier this week, the Pentagon made a proposal to place SMIC on the entity list to the End User Committee, a panel led by the Commerce Department that also includes the State and Energy Departments and makes decisions about entity listings, a person familiar with the matter said. It was not clear whether the other agencies supported the plan. The Trump administrati

- George Washington University said on Friday it is investigating the case of a white professor who wrote in a blog that she faked multiple Black identities that were central to her writings and research. The situation came to light after the publication of a blog post by Jessica Krug, in which the white author confesses to falsely claiming Black Caribbean heritage. “For the better part of my adult life, every move I’ve made, every relationship I’ve formed, has been rooted in the napalm toxic soil of lies,” Krug wrote. “I have built my life on a violent anti-Black lie, and I have lied in every breath I have taken.” The post continued with Krug writing that she “eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim.” Krug did not immediately respond to emailed and phoned requests for comment. George Washington University Provost M. Brian Blake confirmed Krug wrote the blog post. H

- Moderna Inc ( MRNA.O ) has been asking sites that are conducting clinical trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine to focus on enrolling at-risk minorities, even if that slows down the trial speed, the company said on Friday. Shares of Moderna, one of the few companies in the final stages of developing a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine, closed down about 3.5%. The company said here it has enrolled 21,411 participants in the study so far. It had 17,000 participants as of last week, with 24% from communities of color. The drug developer aims to recruit 30,000 healthy volunteers and said it expected enrollment in the late-stage study, which began in late-July, to be completed in September. A growing body of evidence has shown that long-standing health and social inequities have resulted in increased risk of infection and death from COVID-19 among communities of color. (reut.rs/2R1oGZL) Nearly a fifth of 11,000 people enrolled so far in a 30,000-volunteer U.S. trial tes

LOS ANGELES - Californians sought relief on Friday from the first day of a punishing heat wave expected to last through the Labor Day weekend, bringing temperatures of up to 125 degrees Fahrenheit (49 Celsius) and raising the risk of wildfires and rolling blackouts. California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency, a proclamation that allows power plants to operate beyond normal limits throughout the three-day holiday weekend. “The heat is on again! Please do your part to #ConserveEnergy to avoid power outages over #LaborDayWeekend. Some state beaches are closed or have modified operations due to wildfires & COVID-19,” California State Parks said on Twitter. The National Weather Service forecast a heat wave carrying “rare, dangerous and very possibly fatal” temperatures across Southern California for the holiday weekend. “There is a high risk for heat illness along with heightened fire weather concerns,” the NWS Los Angeles office reported, forecasting record high

She will be starring in the film adaptation of the Tony Award winning musical Dear Evan Hansen.  And Amy Adams looked every bit the Hollywood starlet on Friday afternoon, while exiting a hair salon in Beverly Hills. The 46-year-old actress' lengthy auburn hair blew around in the breeze as she made her way back to her parked vehicle. Camera ready: Amy Adams looked every bit the Hollywood starlet on Friday afternoon, while exiting a hair salon in Beverly Hills Adams kept her famous face concealed behind a patterned mask and a pair of 70s inspired sunglasses.  She had on a pale blue peasant blouse and a pair of denim straight leg jeans. The Sharp Objects star slipped her feet into a pair of platform heels and she carried a matching purse in her hand. Once she made it to her luxury vehicle, Adams opened the driver's side door, sat down, and drove off.  All the drama: The 46-year-old actress' lengthy auburn hair blew around in the breeze as she made her way back to her parked ve