Workers at John Deere plants across the US midwest walked off the job at midnight on Oct. 14 amid contract negotiations between the tractor company and the United Auto Workers.
The Biden administration announced a number of measures to address global supply-chain snarls that are clogging up US ports and sparking concern that retailers will not be able to fill holiday shopping orders on time.
A standoff between the Brooklyn Nets and one of its star players, Kyrie Irving, intensified this week when general manager Sean Marks said the point guard will not play any games or practice with the team until he is vaccinated against covid-19.
The author Sally Rooney has turned down a deal from an Israeli publisher to translate her latest book, Beautiful World, Where Are You, into Hebrew, over concerns for the Palestinian people and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
Texas governor Greg Abbott has issued the latest challenge to US president Joe Biden’s covid-19 vaccine mandates, with an executive order that bans any state entity from requiring workers or customers to be vaccinated.
A federal judge has suspended a Texas law prohibiting abortion after six weeks, but not all clinics are resuming normal services just yet.
On Wednesday (Oct. 6), the World Health Organization recommended the widespread distribution of a vaccine against malaria, a life-threatening disease that kills roughly half a million people each year, most in sub-Saharan Africa.
Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez is worried that too many not-so-young people are still living with their parents well into their thirties.
A new audit of nearly 50,000 different monuments throughout the US provides insight into how historic figures are memorialized in public spaces.
Members of a union representing film and television crew members across North America voted overwhelmingly over the weekend to authorize a strike, bringing Hollywood productions one step closer to shutting down if a contract negotiation with major studios is not resolved soon.
Major social media platforms owned by Facebook are all experiencing outages today (Oct. 4), with hundreds of thousands of users reportedly unable to access WhatsApp and Instagram, in addition to Facebook itself.
Ozy Media, the embattled digital news media outlet, is not shutting down after all, CEO Carlos Watson said on Monday (Oct. 4).
Descendants of Procter & Gamble’s co-founder are speaking out against the company’s record on sustainability and climate change. Siblings Jules Feeney and Justine Epstein, who trace their ancestry back six generations to P&G co-founder James Gamble, appeared on CBS News Sept. 28 to discuss recent efforts to bring attention to the company’s manufacturing practices, which they argue threaten vulnerable forests.
Americans already feeling the effects of the US Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures may start to notice more changes to their mail starting today (Oct. 1), when the USPS begins service changes that will slow delivery. Starting Oct. 3 the USPS will also impose a holiday season surcharge, resulting in price hikes on everything from parcel returns to priority mail.
Scarlett Johansson and Disney reached a settlement yesterday (Sept. 30) in a lawsuit that alleged the studio deprived the actress of her share of box-office revenue by simultaneously releasing the film Black Widow on its streaming platform and in theaters at the same time. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
With less than three weeks until the start of the National Basketball Association’s season, a spokesman for the league said that players who don’t comply with their cities’ local Covid-19 vaccine mandates will have to sit out home games, and won’t be paid for the ones they miss.
Gap quietly unveiled the latest offering from its collaboration with rapper Kanye West yesterday, a $90 Yeezy hoodie available in six different colors for pre-order. Within hours the sweatshirts were selling out, and most adult sizes were unavailable by Thursday morning (Sept. 30).
French lawmakers are coming to the defense of booksellers who continue to lose business to major retailers like Amazon with a law that would set a fixed minimum delivery rate for books.
French president Emmanuel Macron announced on Sept. 28 that the government will cover the cost of therapy sessions for any citizen aged three and older, as part of a broader initiative starting in 2022 to address mental health concerns.
This year’s selection of MacArthur Foundation fellows speaks to issues that have shaken the US over the past year and half.
Republican senators in the US blocked a bill on Sept. 27 to fund operations of the government through the end of the year and raise the level of debt it can bear, setting the stage for a potential federal shutdown if lawmakers do not find a solution by midnight Thursday (Sept. 30).
R&B music star R. Kelly was found guilty Monday (Sept. 27) of racketeering and sex trafficking by a federal jury in Brooklyn. The jurors delivered the verdict just two days after deliberations began. The singer may receive a sentence from 10 years to life in prison.
Olaf Scholz looks likely to succeed German chancellor Angela Merkel following his party’s victory in the country’s federal elections on Sunday (Sept. 26).
Nike had less than stellar news for sneakerheads in its earnings call on Sept. 23. While its profits rose 16% in the quarter that ended Aug. 31 compared with last year, revenue was below the $12.47 billion analysts had projected.
