Bernie Sanders is among the politicians supporting Amazon workers who want to unionize. The union’s objection to the Bessemer election could keep the issue in the public eye and energize efforts at other facilities. Patrick T. Fallon/Getty Images Amazon prevailed Friday in its fight against labor organizing at its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse, with workers rejecting […]
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made waves last week when he suggested giant social media companies should be regulated like utilities. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas fired a warning shot Monday at social media giants Facebook and Twitter that could signal the possibility of stricter regulation and a potential radical shift in […]
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LIMA, Peru — Vicenta Escobar, 62, sells fruit from a stand on the streets in Peru’s capital, Lima. In every presidential election over the last four decades, she has chosen a candidate she believed in, in the hope that he or she would deliver change. Not this time, though. This Sunday, she plans to arrive […]
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Alexa will lose track of devices if you rename them, but you can set your smart home right in one fell swoop. Ry Crist/CNET If you have an expansive menagerie of smart home devices, you’ve probably renamed a few here, moved some to a different room there or otherwise changed the configuration you started with. And […]
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TARQUI, Ecuador — Though its candidate is not on the ballot, one big winner in Sunday’s presidential runoff in Ecuador was clear before the first vote was cast: the nation’s long-marginalized Indigenous movement. The Indigenous party and its allies jolted the nation in the first round of voting in February, winning half of all states, […]
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KAMPALA, Uganda — Bobi Wine’s eyes were bloodshot from little sleep. When he spoke, his thoughts trailed off, and his sentences sometimes lacked the precision and eloquence he employed while running for president. At times, he forgot to sip his coffee, even after bringing the mug to his lips. Mr. Wine, 39, rose from a […]
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Mr. Kasato, the district councilor, said that plainclothes officers picked him up from a church meeting on Feb. 8, threw him, hooded, into a car and clobbered him. He said the men asked him for the evidence of election rigging he’d collected, and whether he had sent it to Mr. Wine’s party. He said, yes, […]
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Angela Lang/CNET The Apple Watch will soon make unlocking your iPhone less of a hassle while wearing a mask. It’ll also bring AirPlay 2 compatibility to Apple’s new Fitness Plus workout service. Apple hasn’t revealed the official launch date for its next round of software updates, but the public beta of WatchOS 7.4 gives us a glimpse […]
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Michelin is looking at how to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and will focus on more than just tires to secure its future. Like most businesses in the automotive sector, the French tire maker was hit hard by the pandemic in 2020 and although it expects to fully recover by 2022, it will look to […]
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James Martin/CNET Every year at this time, there are an ever-increasing number of rumors about the next iPhone, and 2021 is no exception. The iPhone 12 family is six months old and yet there are already a plethora of leaks and speculation about the next iPhone, which may be known as the iPhone 13. (Or […]
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