The US has no mandatory paid maternity leave, although mothers are entitled to 12 weeks of unpaid leave if they work for a company with more than 50 employees. As a result, many new mothers with young babies find themselves back in the office all too soon. Workplaces in the United States are legally required […]
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Facebook reported solid third-quarter results Wednesday showing steady growth in its user base even as it faces broad regulatory threats and criticism over its power and negative effects on society. CEO Mark Zuckerberg lauded the company’s financial performance before launching into an impassioned monologue about principles and free speech during a conference call with analysts.
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How much are a college athlete’s name, image and likeness worth? And who would want to pay for them? The questions are front and center now that the NCAA, pressured by individual states that have started acting on their own, has taken a major step toward allowing athletes to make money off their fame. Deciding
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On Oct. 9, Turkish warplanes launched strikes on Kurdish positions in border towns in northeast Syria. On Oct. 10, the ground invasion began. On Oct. 11, Turkish forces shelled Kobani, a city close to an American Special Operations base. The American troops did not fire back, but they began withdrawing from the base a few
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Soon after calories were posted on fast-food menus, people cut back a little bit on what they ordered. But it didn’t last. Customers at fast-food chains in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas ordered an average of 60 fewer calories per transaction in the weeks after the figures were displayed, according to a study published Wednesday in
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Image copyright PA Media BBC presenter Samira Ahmed has been giving evidence in her case claiming she was paid “a sixth” of what Jeremy Vine earned in “a very similar job”. An employment tribunal is considering a claim that Ahmed’s pay on Newswatch should have been comparable with Vine’s on BBC One’s Points of View.
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Image copyright Eliza Hunt My Money is a new series looking at how people spend their money – and the sometimes tough decisions they make. Here, Eliza Hunt from Bristol, records her spending over a week, and shares tips for saving including lots of cheap and healthy recipe suggestions. We’re looking for more people to
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The daughter of one of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash says an apology from Boeing’s chief executive is too little. Zipporah Kuria welcomed US lawmakers questioning Boeing’s chief executive Dennis Muilenburg at the Senate Commerce Committee, but said she found his appearance “infuriating”. Her father, Joseph Waithaka, was one of 157 people killed
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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple said on Wednesday that its profit shrank for the fourth consecutive quarter — the longest such streak since 2016 — but it forecast that better days were ahead. The tech giant said its profit fell 3.1 percent to $13.69 billion in the latest quarter, from $14.13 billion a year ago, largely
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Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has returned to practice on a limited basis, but tight end Miller Forristall could be out for the next six weeks. Coach Nick Saban says Tagovailoa could be “a game-day decision” with a sprained right ankle but he took snaps and went through some work “on air” in Wednesday’s practice. He
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