NEW IBERIA, La.—Police in Louisiana are investigating the death of a fast-food restaurant employee whose body was found in the restaurant’s freezer. Police in New Iberia told local news outlets the body was found around 6:30 p.m. Thursday at an Arby’s restaurant. A police sergeant said the death was considered “suspicious.” But authorities provided no […]
A Norfolk Southern Railway employee was killed on March 7 when a freight train collided with a dump truck in Cleveland, Ohio. Louis Shuster, a Norfolk Southern conductor, “was fatally injured early Tuesday morning at the Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland Works property in Cleveland, Ohio. At this time, officials are reporting that the conductor was struck by […]
Big Tech firms are leading a string of layoffs across corporate America as companies look to rein in costs to ride out the economic downturn. Persisting inflation leading to interest rate hikes, weak consumer demand, and an economic slowdown in China have forced firms from Amazon to Walt Disney and banks to trim their workforce. […]
BOSTON—A former eBay Inc. employee was sentenced Tuesday to one year behind bars for her role in a harassment scheme targeting creators of an online newsletter that included the delivery of live spiders, a bloody pig mask, and other disturbing items to their home. Stephanie Popp, 34, of Louisville, Kentucky, who was eBay’s senior manager […]
From tomorrow, the National Insurance threshold will increase. Many people will see a boost to their pay packets at the end of this month as they grapple with the cost of living crisis. The government has said that a typical employee will save 330 pounds a year.
In an indication that corporate progressivism may be reaching its high water mark, CEOs are starting for the first time to push back against activist employees, in some cases going so far as to fire them rather than steer their companies into the mire of “woke” politics. Last week, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell became the […]
The city manager in Newport, Rhode Island, is standing by the city police department’s review of the 1966 death of an employee of wealthy heiress Doris Duke that found that there is no new information that would change the result of the original investigation that determined it was an accident. Police opened the review into […]
SHANGHAI—Chinese prosecutors have dropped a case against a former Alibaba Group Holding Ltd employee accused of sexually assaulting a female colleague, saying they had determined he had committed forcible indecency but not a crime. The employee, identified by his surname Wang, was detained by police last month after a female Alibaba employee posted an 11-page […]
LOS ANGELES—A Rite Aid employee was fatally shot Thursday while confronting two shoplifters in Los Angeles, according to police and the union that represents workers at the store. Two men were trying to leave the drugstore in the Glassell Park neighborhood of Los Angeles around 8:45 p.m. with unpaid merchandise when the victim tried to […]
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Salon owner Pio Imperati took a chance and hired hairstylist Kathy Moura right out of technical high school 15 years ago. It has worked out so well that Imperati sold her his venerable New Haven, Connecticut, business for $1. “She’s a good hairdresser, a good barber, she’s very nice,” Imperati told the New […]
Ritesh Lakhkar, a technical program manager at Google, says search results can be skewed with money.
“It’s skewed by the owners and the drivers of the algorithm. Like, so, if I say, ‘Hey, Google, here’s another two billion dollars. Feed this data set of whenever Joe Biden is searched, you’ll get these results.'”
This undercover video was published by Project Veritas: a non-profit organization dedicated to investigating and exposing corruption in public and private institutions.
MADRID—Inditex could temporarily lay off all 25,000 of its shop staff in Spain if the country’s state of emergency continues beyond April 15, a company official said on Friday, a sign of how the economic damage of the CCP virus outbreak could worsen. Employees in logistics, central services and manufacturing operations would not be affected, […]
A former American Airlines mechanic accused of trying to sabotage a commercial airliner pleaded guilty to attempted destruction of an aircraft in federal court. Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60, admitted that he intentionally tried to damage or disable an aircraft’s air data module (ADM) system, which reports aircraft speed, pitch and other critical data, on […]
