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Ads are coming to Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing. The tech giants plans to share ad revenue with publishers whose content powered the chatbot’s response.
Disney ousted a Marvel veteran who had backed a critic of Bob Iger. Ike Perlmutter had a history of butting heads with the entertainment giant’s boomerang CEO.
The FDA approved Narcan to be sold over the counter in the US. Naloxone, the underlying medication in Narcan, reverses drug overdose caused by opioids, and making it accessible is a lifesaving measure.
Tennessee’s anti-abortion monument has yet to get any backers. A fund set up in 2018 to build a “Monument of the Unborn” has received no donations so far.
Jair Bolsonaro is heading back to Brazil. The former president’s return from his Florida sojourn is seen as a potential boost for the country’s far right.
A spotlight on Starbucks’ record on workers’ rights
“A large corporation shouldn’t necessarily be bragging about $15 to $20 wages. When you look at the typical structure of a large company, that should probably be $20-plus.”
—Republican senator Mike Braun of Indiana was not impressed with the minimum wage figures quoted by Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz in one of the contentious moments at the US Senate labor committee hearing yesterday. Lawmakers asked the company’s former CEO about the roughly 130 violations of labor laws—which he might just term “partner preferences”—submitted by the National Labor Relations Board in the last 18 months.
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Correction: Yesterday’s chart on firearm deaths was not a rate per 100,000. The numbers are the total number of deaths. Nationally, the rate of children killed by firearms in the US in 2020 was 5.38 per 100,000 or 4,368 deaths.