The RWDSU union accused REI of aggressive "union-busting" tactics.Bruce Bennett via Getty ImagesWorkers at an REI store near Cleveland voted 27-12 in favor of unionizing on Friday, adding more fuel to a labor organizing campaign at the national outdoor retaile... More »
“We’ve had this golden opportunity” to lay the groundwork for answering a crucial question: “How do you survive in a hostile environment like this for 15 generations?” said geneticist Elaine Ostrander of the National Human Genome Research Institute, one of the... More »
"" The Trans-Canada Highway runs near Banff National Park in Canada, with massive Mt. Bourgeau standing majestically in the background. Sean Xu/Shutterstock The Trans-Canada Highway is the second-longest na... More »
Walt Disney World is back in the culture-war news this week, thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s appointment of a new board, filled with his ideological allies, to oversee infrastructure in Disney’s Florida real estate empire. As it happens, I’m now a certified expe... More »
Economists have been arguing fiercely about inflation for around two years now, and that’s fine.The pandemic disrupted business as usual, led to some extraordinarily large policy responses and was followed by a large rise in inflation. Of course people are deb... More »
I sometimes feel I’m in a daily struggle not to become a shallower version of myself. The first driver of shallowization is technology, the way it shrinks attention span, fills the day with tempting distractions. The second driver is the politicization of ever... More »
For context, this is far from the first time Kardashian has been forced to shut down pregnancy rumors or clap back against body shamers. She has been incredibly forthcoming about the ups and downs of in vitro fertilization (IVF). The 43-year-old began trying f... More »
Federal labor officials filed yet another complaint against Starbucks and CEO Howard Schultz on Thursday, accusing the coffee chain’s co-founder of breaking the law through “collaboration sessions” he held with baristas.A Seattle-based regional director for th... More »
Independent researchers who crisscrossed East Palestine, Ohio, with air monitoring equipment said Friday that they found levels of chemical contamination similar to measures previously reported by the Environmental Protection Agency. Several key contaminants, ... More »
You're probably familiar with Microsoft's line of first-party Surface and Xbox products, but you might be less in-the-know when it comes to deals on its hardware. Microsoft runs regular sales at its online store offering you direct savings on some of the most ... More »
Governments have expressed concerns that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, may endanger sensitive user data.In recent months, lawmakers in the United States, Europe and Canada have escalated efforts to restrict access to TikTok, the mass... More »
Light micrograph of a brain tissue specimen in a case of a Naegleria fowleri amoebic infectionScience Photo Library A man has died after being infected by a rare, brain-eating amoeba called Naegleria fowleri, health officials in Florida have said. The unnamed ... More »