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A drug smuggling tunnel the length of six football fields was found by U.S. authorities running from Tijuana, Mexico to a warehouse in San Diego. The secret entrance was located by San Diego’s Otay Mesa border crossing and featured rail and ventilation systems, electricity, and reinforced walls, per authorities. During a Monday announcement, it was revealed that 1,762 pounds of cocaine, […]
Starbucks will reimburse employees for travel expenses related to seeking abortions or gender-affirming procedures, the company announced this week. The move was announced via a letter to Starbucks partners from Sara Kelly, who currently serves as the company’s acting executive vice president of partner resources. As the Associated Press noted in its report, the Seattle-headquartered coffee […]
Mustafa’s delicate, haunting 2021 debut When Smoke Rises is a meditation on the grief he experienced after losing several friends to gun violence. It’s an emotion that’s unfortunately much too common in underserved communities around Toronto—communities like the singer-songwriter’s own Regent Park, which in many ways—socially, politically, economically—feels isolated from the rest of the city and the country. […]
McDonald’s is exiting the Russian market entirely, the company announced on Monday. The process of selling its Russian business has now been initiated, per a report from the Associated Press, with McDonald’s confirming in a statement it is currently seeking to sell off “its entire portfolio” in Russia to a local buyer after more than […]
A retired Buffalo police officer who died while exchanging gunfire with the supermarket shooter on Saturday is being hailed as a “hero” by city officials. The Buffalo News reports one of the 10 victims killed in Saturday’s mass shooting has been identified as 55-year-old security guard Aaron Salter Jr., a former lieutenant with the Buffalo Police Department who confronted the gunman […]
Texans have been asked to make a few sacrifices amid unseasonably hot weather. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages most the state’s main electrical grid, made the request Friday after rising temperatures caused a drastic spike in power demand. The organization said the demand was so high that it caused six power facilities […]
Thousands of protesters gathered this weekend in an effort to preserve U.S. abortion rights. Dubbed “Bans Off Our Bodies,” the nationwide demonstrations kicked off Saturday in dozens of cities across the nation, including NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Pittsburgh, and Nashville. The pro-choice events were in response to a recently leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that could […]
A mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket has left nearly a dozen people dead and several others wounded. According to the Associated Press, the incident took place at around 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Tops Friendly Market, where an armed suspected dressed in military fatigues arrived at the store with a rifle. Authorities say the gunman opened fire in the parking […]
Some of entertainment’s biggest names are showing their support for reproductive rights. Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, and Megan Thee Stallion are among the 160 young artists and influencers who lent their names to Planned Parenthood’s #BansOffOurBodies campaign. The organization took out a full-page ad in Friday’s edition of the New York Times, in which they […]
A U.K. employment tribunal has ruled that calling a man “bald” can be classified as sexual harassment. The Guardian reports the decision, which was made by a panel of three judges, was brought forth from a complaint by Tony Finn, who sued the West Yorkshire-based British Bung Company for unfair dismissal and sexual harassment after a supervisor, Jamie […]
