Christian Arthur was out of a job when the addiction recovery center in South Boston where he worked closed last month. It took him two weeks to find a new one — as a “contact tracer” on the virtual front lines of Massachusetts’ effort to halt the spread of COVID-19. […]
Daily Archives: April 27, 2020
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SEATTLE — Amazon may have violated federal worker safety laws and New York State’s whistle-blower protections when it fired an employee from its Staten Island warehouse who protested the company’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, according to a letter the office of the New York attorney general, Letitia James, sent […]
Even a person as enthusiastic as I am about home cooking can feel fatigue, and six going on seven weeks of this quarantine, I am feeling it. It’s not so much the cooking. It’s the eating — probably because I am doing it all day long. Thin slices of Gouda, […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry is helping “Thomas and Friends” celebrate their 75th anniversary by introducing a special episode which features the cartoon trains as well as some members of the royal family. Britain’s Prince Harry is pictured during the recording of his on-camera introduction to the new animated […]
The NFL is forming contingency plans in case its schedule of games needs to be altered, Sports Business Daily reported Monday, including season openers more than a month later than expected and pushing back the Super Bowl by as much as three weeks. FILE PHOTO: The NFL logo is pictured […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Protests have erupted at US factories in Mexico over concerns about working conditions Factory workers in Ciudad Juárez rarely go on strike. Their labour rights are so weak that participating in a protest can cost them their job. So when employees at the US-owned Regal […]
President Donald Trump on Monday said he had a “very good idea” about the health status of Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, hinting that the American people would be hearing about it in the “not-too-distant future.” Kim has not been seen in public since April 11, and his failure […]
A college basketball star who had declared for the NBA draft this month has been arrested on suspicion of murder and other crimes in Georgia, jail records show. Teshaun Hightower, 22, a guard with the Tulane Green Wave, was taken into custody in Henry County, Georgia, on Saturday night, according […]