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5 years ago+23 23 0Whole Foods employees said to be trying to unionize under Amazon ownership
A group of Whole Foods employees stepped up efforts to unionize the grocery chain in an email blasted to thousands of workers Thursday, citing a laundry list of grievances stemming from Amazon's purchase of the company last year. The group set u ...
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5 years ago+12 12 0Beware Rich People Who Say They Want to Change the World
“Change the world” has long been the cry of the oppressed. But in recent years world-changing has been co-opted by the rich and the powerful. “Change the world. Improve lives. Invent something new,” McKinsey & Company’s recruiting materials say. ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0Jim Parsons reportedly turned down $50 million to get out of another Big Bang Theory season
The Big Bang Theory is imploding, and it's all Jim Parsons' fault. On Wednesday, CBS announced its nerd-filled sitcom would end after 12 seasons. But not everyone was "drowning in tears" like star Kaley Cuoco claimed she was in an ...
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5 years ago+13 13 0Trump responds to being implicated by Cohen
During an interview with Fox News, President Donald Trump responded to former attorney Michael Cohen's testimony that Trump directed him to make hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
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5 years ago+12 12 0Putin urges Europe to help rebuild Syria so refugees can return
Russian president Vladimir Putin has called on Europe to contribute to the reconstruction of Syria to allow millions of refugees to return home. “We need to strengthen the humanitarian effort in the Syrian conflict,” he said on Saturday, ahead of a m ...
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5 years ago+8 8 019 additional drug overdoses in New Haven, total nears 100
After 76 drug overdoses in New Haven Wednesday, another 19 people have overdosed in the city Thursday.
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5 years ago+8 8 0After 30 years of R&D, breakthrough announced in dark matter detection technology, definitive search to begin for axion particles
Forty years ago, scientists theorized a new kind of low-mass particle that could solve one of the enduring mysteries of nature: what dark matter is made of. Now a new chapter in the search for that particle has begun. This week, the Axion Dark Matter ...
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5 years ago+26 26 0 x 1Nasa postpones 'mission to the Sun'
US space agency Nasa has delayed its a mission to send a satellite closer to the Sun than any before. The Parker Solar Probe was set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday, but last-minute investigations have delayed it for 24 hours. It i ...
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5 years ago+18 18 0How far can Venezuela go in raising price of world's cheapest gas?
In Venezuela's inflation-hit economy, a single US dollar can buy 3.5 million liters of gasoline -- an absurdity that the government says it will tackle with a hike in the cost of state-subsidized fuel. But just how far can President Nicolas Madu ...
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5 years ago+29 29 0French skier lost 64 years ago in Alps identified with help of social media
A French skier who went missing more than 60 years ago has finally been identified after details of a probe into his disappearance were posted on social media, Italian police said Sunday. Human remains and ski equipment were found in 2005 more than 3 ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0This Man And His Dog Is Making People's Hearts Soar
On a sunny walk on the roads of Italy, this film near the stadium of Vibo Valentia shows an older gentleman have his sick poor dog on a cart. The dog can’t walk on its own and they are seen coming home from a walk and he is helping the dog in by lift ...
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5 years ago+4 4 0Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years in Siberian Permafrost Wriggle to Life
Did you ever wake up from a long nap feeling a little disoriented, not quite knowing where you were? Now, imagine getting a wake-up call after being "asleep" for 42,000 years. In Siberia, melting permafrost is releasing nematodes — microsco ...
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5 years ago+9 9 0White House press corps showing unity after reporter barred from Rose Garden event
The ultra-competitive White House press corps is displaying something rare and refreshing: Solidarity. Journalists reacted with dismay when the Trump administration barred CNN's Kaitlan Collins from attending a presidential event in the Rose Gar ...
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5 years ago+17 17 0Trump's "Keep America Great" re-election banners are made in China and were mass produced to avoid trade war tariffs
Factory workers in eastern China have been working hard since March to churn out about 90,000 “Keep America Great” banners for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, aiming to fulfill the massive order quickly to avoid the potential economic impact of ...
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5 years ago+9 9 0 x 1We Banned Holocaust Deniers From Our History Subreddit. Here’s Why Facebook Should Do the Same.
There can be no debate with Holocaust deniers. That is a core principle of moderating the AskHistorians subreddit, one of the largest history forums on the internet—and a crucial lesson Mark Zuckerberg seemingly does not understand. Zuckerberg got in ...
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5 years ago+27 28 1 x 1Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data was accessed from Russia, MP says
The now infamous Facebook data set on tens of millions of Americans gathered by a Cambridge University scientist for a firm that went on to work for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign was accessed from Russia, a British member of parliament tells CNN. ...
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5 years ago+20 20 0Facebook protects far-right activists even after rule breaches
Leading far-right activists have received special protection from Facebook, preventing their pages from being deleted even after a pattern of behaviour that would typically result in moderator action being taken. The process, called “shielded review” ...
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5 years ago+12 12 0Plutonium is missing, but the government says nothing
Two security experts from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory drove to San Antonio, Texas, in March 2017 with a sensitive mission: to retrieve dangerous nuclear materials from a nonprofit research lab there. Their task, according to ...
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5 years ago+8 8 0FDA approves the first smallpox treatment
As bioterrorism fears grow, the first treatment for smallpox has been approved. Called tecovirimat, the drug stops the variola virus, which causes smallpox, from sending out copies of itself and infecting other cells. “If the virus gets ahead of your ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0The doctor who chose to stay in the cave
It was his rare combination of talents that led Australian doctor Richard Harris deep into the Tham Luang cave in Thailand. When the Wild Boars football team was located deep inside the cave, after being missing for a week, the Adelaide anaesthetist ...