Amazon has increasingly turned to robots and automation technology to fetch products from the shelves of its warehouses to ship to customers. Now the company says it needs to help its workers adapt to the rapid change. The e-commerce giant on Thursday said it planned to spend $700 million to retrain a third of its […]
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The Latest at Wimbledon (all times local): 2:20 p.m. Simona Halep has reached her first Wimbledon final. The former No. 1 advanced to Saturday’s championship match at the All England Club by beating Elina Svitolina 6-1, 6-3 on Centre Court. Halep broke Svitolina three times in the first set, and then again to take a
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The Trump administration has abandoned a centerpiece of its efforts to address high drug prices, backing away from requiring some discounts to be passed directly to consumers under Medicare that could have lowered their out-of-pocket costs. President Trump had announced the proposal with great fanfare in January as part of the administration’s efforts to deal
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Delta Air Lines is benefiting from strong demand for air travel this summer and the grounding of Boeing Max planes at key rivals to post record revenue and a bigger profit. The airline is aggressively adding flights and seats, but it is finding more than enough passengers to fill them, leading to even more crowded
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Helen Phillips’ new novel “The Need” opens on a mother in peril, “crouched in front of the mirror in the dark, clinging to them. The baby in her right arm, the child in her left.” “There were footsteps in the other room.” But were there footsteps? Did she mishear? Is she going crazy? Since having
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President Trump is on a Twitter tirade ahead of his White House “Social Media Summit” gathering of mostly conservative groups. Trump is tweeting against social media companies, the press and his Democratic rivals, while calling himself “so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius!” Trump says a “big subject’ of Thursday’s summit “will be
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Megan Rapinoe of the Women’s World Cup champion U.S. soccer team had another giant audience hanging on her every word Wednesday at the ESPY Awards ― but one of those words wasn’t going to be a four-letter one. The U.S. Women’s National Team co-captain, who won the Golden Ball as the tournament’s best player, accepted
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A man who was in a vegetative state for 11 years who was at the center of a bitter dispute that divided his family and French courts, and provoked national soul-searching over how to deal with terminally ill patients, has died. Vincent Lambert, 42, died on Thursday, nine days after doctors stopped providing artificial feeding
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Image caption Crews were first called to the scene shortly before midnight Firefighters are tackling a blaze at Warner Bros studios. Crews were called to the site in Leavesden, Hertfordshire, at 23:29 BST on Wednesday. The council said the set involved was not being used at the time and there had been no reported injuries.
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Image copyright AFP France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by the US, which argues that it unfairly targets American tech giants. The 3% tax will be levied on sales generated in France by multinational firms like Google and Facebook. The French government has argued that such firms headquartered outside the
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