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Burnout, quiet quitting, strikes — the news (and likely your schedule) is filled with markers that workers are overwhelmed and too much is expected of them. There's little regulation in the United States to prevent employers from forcing workers to be at their desks or on call at all hours, but that might soon chang...

Published: 14:47 EST, 26 February 2024 | Updated: 14:47 EST, 26 February 2024 Nearly half of all young voters are not willing to pay more than $10 a month to fight climate change, despite Joe Biden claiming it's an 'existential threat' and making it the center of his re-election campaign. Less than half (45%) of the...

Published: 07:28 EST, 3 March 2024 | Updated: 07:49 EST, 3 March 2024 Chinese gangs have set up thousands of illicit weed farms across the US as they begin to challenge Mexican cartels for supremacy as America's cannabis kingpins.Authorities in Oklahoma, Oregon, California, New Mexico and Maine have all been battlin...

Published: 22:37 EST, 5 January 2024 | Updated: 00:58 EST, 6 January 2024 An Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California was forced to make an emergency landing back at Portland International Airport less than an hour after takeoff after suffering depressurization.Terrifying audio recordings ...