Make Amazon Pay campaign is planning strikes, protests, and union organizing activities targeting Amazon in 20 countries on Black Friday.

What caused acute liver failure in some customers, including children, is still unclear. At least 25 people in two states were likely poisoned by toxic batches of the "Re2al Alkalized Water," including five children who suffered acute liver failure and one person who died. That's according to a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thursday, which lays out the findings of a multistate investigation into the toxic water. Health investigators suspect additional poisonings went undetected. They noted in their report that hospital records indicated an unusual spike in unexplained "toxic liver diseases" around the time of the poisonings.

A lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Alec Baldwin recklessly fired a gun when it wasn't called for in the script when he shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza on the New Mexico set of the film Rust.

A live-streamer has been banned from a buffet restaurant in China after multiple food binges.

Popcorn soaked in Pepsi? Don’t mind if I do

When a dozen small children crossed in front of our Tesla with "full self-driving," I had good reason to be nervous.

As the Editorial Board wrote Tuesday, the North Carolina state budget has some flaws. There’s no Medicaid expansion, or paid family leave. There are riders that limit the governor’s and attorney general’s powers. The school funding doesn’t meet requirements set forth by the Leandro case ruling, and pay increases for teachers and other state employees are hardly enough. Planned Parenthood North Carolina and NARAL Pro-Choice NC are concerned about funding of “pregnancy care centers” whose main purpose is to dissuade people from having abortions. Aside from the issues on how money is spent, a big concern should be how the state’s money is earned, and why the General Assembly feels comfortable letting large corporations come to North Carolina and do nothing to improve our state. The new budget mandates that taxes on “C” corporations (corporations where owners are taxed separate from the business) decrease gradually, so that by 2029 state corporate income taxes won’t exist in North Carolina. The state joins just two other states — South Dakota and Wyoming, two states with some of the smallest economic output and populations compared to the rest of the U.S. — who don’t have corporate income tax or gross receipts taxes. North Carolina already has one the lowest corporate tax rates in the country at 2.5 percent. Companies were moving here in part because of this, but they were moving here before, when it was closer to 7 percent a decade ago. Now, the state plans to reduce this rate to 2.25 percent in 2025, then 2 percent, until it reaches zero in 2029.

No country has managed to meet the basic social needs of its population in the past 30 years without putting undue pressure on the Earth’s supply of natural resources, according to a study. Looking at a sample of 148 nations, research by the University of Leeds found wealthy countries were putting the future of the planet at risk to make minimal gains in human welfare, while poor countries were living within ecological boundaries but underachieving in areas such as life expectancy and access to energy. The report, which follows the conclusion of the Cop26 climate change talks in Glasgow, said that on current trends the next 30 years would see the pattern repeated and called for a rethink of growth-dominated economic models.

Muncie Central High School announced a third e-learning day in a row after nearly 300 students protested Monday in response to Black Lives Matter signs being taken down by the school’s security officers. “Our teacher was pulled from our classroom by the school security officers at the school and had been told that they did not agree [and] that our claims are false,” Quinnith Bouton, a Muncie Central High School student, said.

Oklahoma Gov Kevin Stitt had the final say on whether Julius Jones would be executed this week.

While the climate conference produced little new substance, then, it does provide a convenient opportunity to take stock of elite consensus.

The author of Debt and The Dawn of Everything left behind countless admirers and an abiding belief that society could be changed for the better.

A confrontation between a host and dining patrons slid neatly into every outrage narrative of 2021. Maybe a bit too neatly.

Rep. Paul Gosar was censured by the House of Representatives over his tweeting an anime clip where he killed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The magnitude 4.0 quake could be felt in parts of the metro St. Louis area

Travis McMichael took the stand as the first defense witness to tell his "side of the story" in the fatal Georgia shooting, crying at one point.

The Republican economist, Phillip Swagel, is now playing an outsize role in the enactment of Biden’s agenda.

In reporting on the rising number of newborns needlessly dying of syphilis, ProPublica reporter Caroline Chen identified a contributing factor: the CDC’s funding structure, which is influenced by both politics and shifts in public attention. In public health, a “sentinel event” is a case of preventable harm so significant that it serves as a warning that the system is failing. The alarms are now blaring. A growing number of babies are being born with syphilis after their mothers contract the sexually transmitted disease and the bacteria crosses the placenta. These cases are 100% preventable: When mothers who have syphilis are treated with penicillin while pregnant, babies are often born without a trace of the disease. But when mothers go untreated, there is a 40% chance their babies will be miscarried, be stillborn or die shortly after birth. Those who survive can be born with deformed bones or damaged brains, or can suffer from severe anemia, hearing loss or blindness. I’ve spent the past few months trying to understand why countries including Belarus, Cuba, Malaysia and Sri Lanka have managed to wipe out congenital syphilis while the United States faces its highest incidence in nearly three decades: Last year, 2,022 cases were reported, including 139 deaths. That’s a shocking reversal from 1999, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that the United States was on the verge of eliminating the centuries-old scourge for adults as well as babies.

Greece is offering Britain the Artemision Bronze and the golden Mask of Agamemnon in a deal to return the Elgin Marbles. Officials from both countries have discussed the proposal and Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek prime minister, raised the issue with Boris Johnson when he met him in No 10 yesterday. Experts believe that an exhibition of the Artemision Bronze, a hollow statue of Zeus or Poseidon, and the Mask of Agamemnon, would attract interest on a scale last seen when the Terracotta Army was lent to the British Museum in 2007. The marbles, which are exhibited in the British Museum, were originally part of the Parthenon. Mitsotakis told ITV the marbles “are here because they were stolen by Lord Elgin”.

Gunther the German shepherd spent a recent morning playing with his tennis ball, rolling in the grass, slobbering a little and napping a lot. Later, he had a “meeting” with the real estate agents selling his Miami mansion that his handlers bought from Madonna.