Amazon's warehouse workers in Staten Island file petition for union election

The independent group is being led by employee-turned-activist Chris Smalls.

Facebook paying fine to settle US suit on discrimination

Facebook is paying a $4.75 million fine and up to $9.5 million to eligible victims to resolve the Justice Department’s allegations that it discriminated against U.S. workers in favor of foreigners with special visas to fill high-paying jobs

Unarmed man shot 8 times by police files $26 million lawsuit

Isiah Brown, a Black man, was shot eight times by police, just after receiving a ride home from the deputy.

Study: Fossil fuel plans would far overshoot climate goals

A U.N.-backed study has found that the world needs to cut by more than half its production of coal, oil and gas in the coming decade to maintain a chance of keeping global warming from reaching dangerous levels

Taliban promise cash, land, to families of suicide bombers

The Taliban have promised plots of land to relatives of suicide bombers who attacked U.S. and Afghan soldiers

Biden admin backs down on tracking bank accounts with over $600 annual transactions

The Biden administration has backed down on a proposal to collect banking information on accounts with transactions over $600 per year.

Cargo backlog creates traffic headaches on sea and land

Bottlenecks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have spilled over into a neighborhood where cargo trucks are clogging residential streets

Sinclair hit by ransomware attack, TV stations disrupted

Sinclair Broadcast Group says that some of its servers and work stations were encrypted with ransomware and that data was stolen from its network

Gov. Parson threatens legal action against reporter who exposed flaw on state education department's website - ABC17NEWS

The Missouri Department of Education says it has fixed an issue that allowed access to some educators social security information, after the department says it was notified personal information of three educators was possibly compromised through...

3 arrested can challenge Louisiana pipeline trespass law

A federal judge says demonstrators and a journalist may continue their challenge of a Louisiana law making it a felony to trespass in the area of a pipeline

Body cam footage shows Minneapolis police allegedly 'hunting' anti-police brutality protesters

After George Floyd's death, police fired at protesters who were out past curfew with rubber bullets and celebrated their successful hits.

Putin critic Navalny slams Google and Apple for accepting Kremlin censorship

Jailed Putin critic Alexey Navalny has slammed Apple and Google for bowing to Kremlin censorship demands during recent elections.

'What would Australia be like without koalas?' Conservationists say extinction perilously close

A conservation group says government estimates on koalas are so inaccurate that urgent action is needed to avoid a national catastrophe.

High Court rules media outlets are responsible for Facebook comments in landmark case

The High Court rules on whether media outlets should be legally responsible for comments left on their social media pages in a landmark case.

Hong Kong police arrest defiant Tiananmen vigil leaders

Four leaders of the group that organized annual Tiananmen Square commemorations in Hong Kong have been arrested after refusing to cooperate in a national security investigation

Why Some White Evangelical Republicans Are So Opposed To The COVID-19 Vaccine

In the race to get Americans vaccinated, two groups are commanding a lot of attention: Republicans and white evangelicals. Both are less likely to have been vac…

Where America Lost And Gained Population Could Help Democrats In Redistricting

With the release of block-level data from the 2020 census, we now have a much clearer picture of how and where the U.S. population has grown — and shrunk — over…

Why People Who Brush Still Get Cavities

This is why many of the US states that voted for Trump are now at the mercy of the Delta variant

It was never meant to be like this. America has vast supplies of vaccine available to almost anyone. But in some pockets of the country, the Delta variant is ripping through the unvaccinated.

Instagram apologizes for Almodóvar film's poster censorship

Instagram has apologized for removing the official poster for Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s new film from the social network for showing a female nipple, after the poster’s designer complained of censorship