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More than 100 employees of an Apple store in a suburb of Baltimore voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, joining a growing U.S. push across tech, retail and service industries to organize for greater workplace protections, a union said. The workers in Towson, Maryland, voted by a …

Chief executives at some of the nation’s largest companies are urging federal lawmakers to pass stronger gun safety laws amid a recent outbreak of mass shootings across the U.S.  In a letter signed by more than 200 CEOs and sent to the U.S. Senate, business leaders referenced the recent massacres at …

Workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts deliberately put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children, a civil rights organization said Wednesday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a discrimination complaint on the woman’s behalf with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. …

Rio De Janeiro — Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk met with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday to discuss connectivity and other projects in the Amazon rainforest. The meeting, held in a luxurious resort in Sao Paulo state, was organized by Communications Minister Fábio Faria, who has …

Hundreds of health care workers gathered outside a Nashville courthouse on Friday to protest the sentencing of a former Tennessee nurse facing up to eight years in prison for mistakenly causing the death of a patient. RaDonda Vaught was found guilty in March of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect …

Home values in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, and real estate in some of the most overpriced regions could fall by 10% over the next few years, according to Moody’s Analytics. The pandemic has boosted home prices in parts of the country far beyond the typical coastal hot spots, …

Move over, Weight Watchers: Eli Lilly is eyeing the diet industry.  Patients taking the highest dose of the experimental drug tirzepatide lost roughly 50 pounds, or 21% of their weight, in a late-stage clinical trial, the pharmaceutical company said on Thursday. Those taking a low dose of the drug, which …

Unruly air travelers in the U.S. will still face hefty fines and possible criminal charges even if one major point of contention — having to wear face masks on planes — is largely no longer an issue.  The Federal Aviation Administration is making permanent its “zero-tolerance” policy against unruly passengers, …

When Starbucks hired Jaz Brisack in late 2020 as a barista, it couldn’t have known that the 24-year-old former Oxford University Rhodes Scholar would go on to play a starring role in unionizing one of America’s best-known brands. A year later, Brisack would prove instrumental in helping lead a Starbucks …

It’s been at least 40 years since inflation was as high as it is today, and that means an entire generation of “entitled” consumers is about to learn some very rude lessons about life and money, according to BlackRock President Rob Kapito. Kapito, who is also co-founder of BlackRock, the …