Costco customers have largely rejected self-checkout, and the warehouse club has responded by removing it from most stores. This follows recent trends where both Walmart and Target have limited many automatic checkouts to a maximum amount of items. In a sense, these changes were made to limit opportunities for theft and prevent scanning errors that … Read more
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli raids in Gaza on Thursday killed nine people, including three women, a day after the U.S. announced that the fragile ceasefire would move into a second phase. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the cease-fire announcement as largely symbolic, raising questions about how its most challenging elements … Read more
LONDON (AP) — With one puff of a cigarette, a Canadian woman became a global symbol of defiance against Iran’s bloody crackdown on dissent — and the world saw the flame. A video that has gone viral in recent days shows the woman – who described herself as an Iranian refugee – opening a lighter … Read more
When Nancy Pelosi makes a move in the stock market, people notice. The former Speaker of the House built a reputation for remarkably well-timed stock deals. Her portfolio decisions often trigger intense scrutiny from retail investors trying to decipher what Washington’s power players know and the rest of us don’t. According to this Nancy Pelosi … Read more
Former Fresno State Vice President Deborah Adishian-Astone received a substantial raise and took home more state pay than anyone on campus in 2024, the year the Fresno State Foundation she led was riddled with governance and operational weaknesses that left it vulnerable to abuse and fraud, according to a critical CSU report released this month. … Read more
Utahns are nearly evenly split on whether to repeal Utah’s redistricting law, Proposition 4, eight years after it passed as a ballot initiative, according to the latest Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll. As Republican lawmakers seek to overturn a series of court decisions that allowed 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson to implement a new … Read more
Microplastics are everywhere. We drink them in our water, eat them in our food, breathe them in the air, leading to – so we’re told – alarming levels of plastic building up in our tissues. So it was somewhat of a shock this week when The Guardian published a “bombshell” article suggesting that scientists may … Read more
When Christina Le posted publicly on LinkedIn about mental health, burnout, and work-life balance, she didn’t expect her company to respond. Le, the head of marketing at social media content creation platform Slate, offered a small suggestion for executives: “If companies are enjoying refreshing benefits this year, here’s a free idea: Add a janitorial stipend.” … Read more
A scream erupted at dawn on the savannah, followed by other screams and the rustling of branches: wild Fongoli chimpanzees wishing each other good morning in the dry and stingy Sahel. The rare chimpanzees — who live in the hot bush of southeastern Senegal, rather than the forest as is more common — exist at … Read more
By John Irish PARIS, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Huge protests in Iran have galvanized exiled enemies of the authorities, but despite their hatred of ruling clerics, a bitter schism that predates the 1979 Islamic Revolution still plagues opposition factions. This division, between monarchists who support Reza Pahlavi, the son of the ousted shah, and a … Read more