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DKart/iStock (NEW YORK) — In late November, Twitter rolled out a new privacy policy it said was aimed at preventing the misuse of media to harass, intimidate or reveal the identities of individuals — but, [Read More…]

Sundry Photography/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Several organizers of the Jan. 6 rally near the White House filed a lawsuit Monday against Verizon to prevent the telecommunications giant from sharing cell phone data with the congressional committee [Read More…]

iStock/JillianCain (NEW YORK) — An Asian American software engineer who was lauded for creating a free website to help people find COVID-19 vaccine appointments, and using the platform to raise awareness about the uptick in [Read More…]

baona/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris will announce the administration’s EV Charging Action Plan on Monday to fast-track a nationwide charging network for electric vehicles. The plan outlines steps for how federal agencies, such [Read More…]

Dmitry Vorobyev/iStock (NEW YORK) — Have gifts to ship that you want to arrive by Christmas? Then taking a trip to the post office might be in your future! Each year, we spend time sweating [Read More…]

Moyo Studio/iStock (NEW YORK) — Consumer prices are continuing to climb, causing new pain for Americans’ pocketbooks, as inflation tightens its grip on the economy and hobbles the post-pandemic recovery. The consumer price index, which [Read More…]

Marccophoto/iStock (NEW YORK) — A now-defunct e-cigarette retailer has agreed to pay $50 million to resolve allegations it marketed and sold vaping products to minors by appealing to their social media preferences, taste for fruit [Read More…]

Mutlu Kurtbas/iStock (NEW YORK) — A year and a half into the global pandemic, with the Omicron variant lurking and holiday travel looming, many flight attendants say they’ve reached their breaking point with unruly passengers, [Read More…]

mattjeacock/iStock (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Workers with at least one Starbucks outpost in Buffalo, New York, voted on Thursday to form the coffee chain’s first labor union in the U.S., according to results of the vote [Read More…]

mattjeacock/iStock (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — History could be made for Starbucks workers in labor-friendly Buffalo, New York, on Thursday. The National Labor Relations Board is set to count votes for a union election collected from three [Read More…]

Getty/Justin Sullivan (SAN JOSE, Calif.) — Elizabeth Holmes finished her testimony on Wednesday and her defense team rested their case in her criminal fraud trial. All that’s left now are closing arguments. Then the jury [Read More…]

GETTY/Roy Rochlin/Stringer (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Lawmakers on Wednesday grilled Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, in a wide-ranging hearing on the potential harms of social media use for young people. The senators pledged that the age [Read More…]

iStock (NEW YORK) — Instagram announced a slew of updates on Tuesday that aim to protect teens on the app, in an announcement that notably comes one day before Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri is [Read More…]

baona/iStock (NEW YORK) — Charging an electric vehicle is simple and painless — if you have a charger installed at home. Automakers are producing EVs at a feverish pace with government backing. Yet the number [Read More…]

DaveAlan/iStock (LOS ANGELES) — When passengers board an Alaska Airlines flight, most don’t know it but that plane is lighter than other Boeing 737s or Airbus A320s, according to the airline. That’s because during the [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On the heels of a sluggish November jobs report, President Joe Biden on Friday touted the country’s employment landscape as improving despite there being fewer jobs added last month than [Read More…]

Charday Penn/iStock (NEW YORK) — At least until June 2021, Facebook had significant gaps in its efforts to tackle COVID-19 misinformation from one of the most prominent anti-vaccine groups in the world, according to a [Read More…]

HJBC/iStock (NEW YORK) — Microsoft Corp. shareholders voted on Tuesday to force the company to more transparently address sexual harassment claims via independent investigations and public reporting. The proposal, approved during the company’s annual shareholder [Read More…]

iStock/CatEyePerspective (SAN JOSE, Calif.) — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is back on the stand Tuesday, facing questions from prosecutors after she tearfully told the jury Monday about what she described as nearly a decade of [Read More…]

iStock (NEW YORK) — In a rare move, the National Labor Relations Board has ordered a union election do-over for Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama. A date has not yet been determined for the [Read More…]