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A First-Of-Its-Kind Count Of Nonbinary Adults Is Crucial To Our Understanding Of LGBTQ Communities
There are about 1.2 million LGBTQ adults in the U.S. who are nonbinary, according to a first-of-its-kind study released last week by the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, a research center that focuses on the intersection of law and public policy, and sexual orientation and gender identity.
How New Federal Rules Could Make It Easier To Buy Hearing Aids Or Fix Your Phone
President Biden unveiled a new plan on Friday taking aim at powerful industries where a handful of players have so much market clout that they can drive up prices, depress wages and make it hard for small companies to break in.
Washington And Oregon Strengthen Protections For Ag Workers Following Deadly Heat Wave
Washington on Friday became the second state in the Pacific Northwest in as many days to announce emergency rules that provide farmworkers and others who work outdoors more protection from hot weather in the wake of an extreme heat wave that is believed to have killed hundreds of people.
President Biden Defends Decision To Pull U.S. Troops From Afghanistan Despite Resurgent Taliban
As security conditions deteriorate in Afghanistan, President Biden is defending his decision to pull U.S. troops out of America’s longest-running war. Biden announced the decision in April, and he insisted Thursday that he will stick to it, even as the consequences of that withdrawal become more and more stark.
Zaila Avant-garde Becomes First African American To Win Scripps Spelling Bee
Fourteen-year-old Zaila Avant-garde has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee — and $50,000. She won with the winning word, “murraya,” a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees and celebrated with a twirl onstage under the confetti.
Crews Are Ending The Search For Survivors In The Surfside Condo Collapse
Fourteen days after the catastrophic collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Fla., officials have called off the search for survivors.
Donald Trump Sues Facebook, YouTube And Twitter For Alleged Censorship
Former President Donald Trump is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube over their suspensions of his accounts after a mob of his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol in January.
Pentagon Scraps $10 Billion Contract With Microsoft, Bitterly Contested By Amazon
The Defense Department is scrapping its $10 billion cloud-computing contract with Microsoft, ending the award process that’s been mired in a legal battle with Amazon.
A $500 Sign-On Bonus To Deliver Pizzas? Here’s What To Know About Hiring Incentives
With a record 9.3 million jobs open in the U.S. as of April, and a workforce in no hurry to get back to work, a growing number of employers are looking to hiring bonuses to fill their ranks. Long a tradition on Wall Street, sign-on bonuses are rare in low-wage work such as fast food, warehousing and food delivery. Now, as the economy has picked up, hiring bonuses are everywhere.
Jeff Bezos Built Amazon 27 Years Ago. He Now Steps Down As CEO At Critical Time
Jeff Bezos stepped down as Amazon’s CEO on Monday, exactly 27 years since he started the e-commerce giant in a garage in West Bellevue, Wash.
It’s Very Hot, It’s Tinder Dry, And Wildfire Conditions Are ‘Unusually Risky’ At This Point In The Summer
The Northwest is primed for fire season, and not in a good way. East of the Cascades, forecasters say this year could be worse than recent record-breaking fire seasons.
Poll: Two-Thirds Of Americans Believe Democracy Is Under Threat, But For Different Reasons
Ahead of the first Fourth of July since an attack on the Capitol, fueled by baseless claims of voter fraud, and as several GOP-led states work now to enact stricter voting rules, majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents express worry about the health of democracy.
