One question has long dogged the Paris Agreement, the 27-page accord that set the terms for this month’s climate negotiations at COP26: Is it legally binding?
US Congress has approved a potentially history-making paid family leave plan as part of a larger social spending bill.
“Our patience is running thin,” US president Joe Biden famously told unvaccinated Americans last month after announcing that he would direct the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to implement a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for large private employers. Today (Nov. 4), OSHA released the full text of the rule.
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Amazon is pushing into US healthcare on several fronts. It recently launched an online pharmacy business, an at-home Covid testing service, and Amazon Care, a growing chain of clinics offering virtual and in-person doctor visits.
Academics have spent years investigating why some songs give people “chills,” usually described as a pleasurable sensation of tingles, or a shiver, often accompanied by goosebumps.
Three years ago, Zillow, the real estate listings company, branched out into house flipping with Zillow Offers. Now it’s putting that business on hold, ostensibly for very human reasons.
The will-he-or-won’t-he guessing game around Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s attendance at a major climate summit in Scotland continues.
The American holiday season ought to be filled with more cheer and plenty of teary-eyed reunions this year: The US is finally going to open its borders to international travelers from 33 countries, beginning Nov. 8.
It’s the end of an era for American-owned social media sites in China—and for the former hope that such platforms would one day lead to open dialogue there.
On Saturday, March 14, 2020, anyone who attempted to see a loved one at a US retirement or nursing home found themselves turned away at the door. A ban on non-essential staff was put in place to protect residents in the country’s 15,000-plus facilities from Covid-19, but it meant that from one day to the next, an estimated 1.3 million people were suddenly isolated, cut off from family and friends.
Activist investors have traditionally been anything but agents for positive change. They are more often compared to vultures.
Like many people, I could not visit my parents for most of 2020 and a large part of 2021. They had moved from one retirement home into another during the last week such places were open, the week before Covid-19 lockdowns began.
When Amazon released Astro, its household robot, earlier this week, the press laughed it off. I didn’t.
The idea of vaccine mandates in the workplace is less divisive than its critics would suggest. But US president Joe Biden’s Sept. 9 directive to businesses with 100 or more employees—that they prepare to request proof of vaccination or test employees weekly for Covid-19—is being cast as a totalitarian edict by those who oppose vaccines and by those who oppose Biden’s politics.
A team of Canadian researchers unwittingly spewed gasoline on the dumpster fire of anti-vax propaganda earlier this month when they published a non-peer-reviewed study on Covid-19 vaccine side effects.
Justin Trudeau remains Canada’s prime minister today, having successfully won a Sept. 20 snap election that could have cost him his political career.
Canadians are going to the polls today in an election that didn’t have to happen.
It’s a tough time to be a middle manager right now, down in the trenches daily with employees who appear ready to quit or desperate to get their old verve back. Motivation at work seems to be in short supply.
