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After years of Amazon workers organizing and pressuring the company to negotiate over wages and working conditions, two prominent unions are teaming up to challenge the online retailer.The partnership was finalized in a vote that ended Monday after members of the Amazon Labor Union, the only union that officially represents Amazon warehouse workers in the United States, voted overwhelmingly to join the 1.3 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters members. Voting is overseen by the Amazon Association.ALU scored a surprise election victory at a Staten Island warehouse in 2022. However, it has yet to begin negotiations with Amazon, which continues to…

Lesa Walton suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for years. “It was awful,” said Ms. Walton, 57, who lives in Wenatchee, Wash. “I kept getting sicker and sicker.”She also had high blood pressure and was obese. Doctors told her to diet and exercise, which she did, to no avail.Then he found a doctor who prescribed Wegovy, one of the new obesity drugs. Not only did he lose more than 50 pounds, he said. her arthritis cleared up and she no longer needed pills to lower her blood pressure.Her new doctor, Dr. Stefie Deeds, an internist and obesity medicine specialist in private practice…

When the guests arrived at the Mouki Mou store in Athens at 6 p.m. on the last weekend in May, they grabbed cool glasses of Greek rosé before retiring to the concrete-lined boutique. Its founder, Maria Lemos, who grew up in Greece, opened the store in the city’s historic center, Plaka, in 2023, ten years after Mouki Mou’s flagship store was established on London’s Chiltern Street. In both places, she curates a roster of under-the-radar clothing and homewares brands that focus on craftsmanship with a tactile wabi-sabi approach. On this particular night, the brand in focus was Dosa, founded by…

The public got a first look Monday at a CIA “black site,” including a windowless, closet-sized cell where a former al Qaeda commander was held during what he described as the most humiliating experience of his time in U.S. custody .The former commander, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, led the 360-degree virtual tour of the site, Quiet Room 4, during a sentencing hearing at Guantanamo Bay that began last week. He described being blindfolded, stripped, forcibly shaved and photographed naked on two occasions after his arrest in 2006.He never saw the sun, nor heard the voices of his guards, who were dressed…

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Biden administration’s new Title IX regulations in six more states, as Republicans and conservative groups seek to overturn a policy that expanded protections for LGBTQ students.In a 93-page opinion, Judge Danny C. Reeves of the Eastern District of Kentucky ruled that the Department of Education had gone too far in expanding the definition of “gender” to include gender identity.Judge Reeves struck down the regulations in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia days after a federal judge issued similar rulings in Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Idaho.Title IX, which was passed in 1972,…

Sunday’s Tony Awards broadcast averaged 3.5 million viewers, down about 15 percent from last year, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings data.While not a huge drop from the 2023 show, which averaged 4.1 million viewers, the viewership was the second-lowest for a Tonys telecast since records were kept.The drop reverses a trend from other major awards shows and live events, which have been racking up ratings gains in recent years. The Oscars (19.5 million viewers in March) and the Grammy Awards (16.9 million in February) recorded three consecutive years of viewership growth as they climbed from record lows in the early…

Ryan Selkis, a cryptocurrency executive, was dining at Mar-a-Lago last month when he received an unexpected invitation: Former President Donald J. Trump wanted to come up on stage and say a few words.Mr Selkis, who runs crypto data firm Messari, was one of hundreds of attendees at an event celebrating Mr Trump’s series of non-fungible tokens, the digital collectibles known as NFTs. When he reached the lectern, Mr. Selkis turned to the former president.“There are 50 million crypto holders in the US,” the executive said. “That’s a lot of voters.”That message has become a political talking point in the crypto…

In one long day at the Kwapong Health Center in rural Ghana, Beatrice Nyamekye inserted contraceptive implants into the arms of half a dozen women and gave eight or nine more a three-monthly hormone injection to prevent pregnancy. Some looked to condoms or birth control pills, but most wanted something that would last longer.”They like implants and injections more than anything,” said Ms Nyamekye, a community health nurse. “It relieves them of worry and it’s private. They don’t even have to discuss it with a spouse or partner.”The hubbub at the Kwapong clinic reverberates across Ghana and much of sub-Saharan…

For decades, visitors who flock to New York City for Pride each June have found plenty of packed bars and happy parties, but no easy way to engage with the city’s rich LGBTQ history.Even Sheridan Square, the center of the 1969 Stonewall riot that catalyzed the gay liberation movement, had little to see for anyone interested in the queer past.”The visitor experience when they got there was a bar, a bench and a park,” said Ross Levi, director and vice president at the New York State tourism department. “That’s not terribly helpful for someone coming in during the day when…

The announcement came in a seemingly unusual fashion on Sunday, when it was first published through the Israeli military’s channels in English and Arabic: The army will “pause” its daytime fighting along a major humanitarian aid corridor in southern Gaza until further notice.Amid some immediate confusion about the scope of the hiatus, a clarification followed, this time in Hebrew and ostensibly for domestic consumption. The change did not mean an end to fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, the statement said, adding that the campaign in the southernmost town of Rafah continued. Military officials said the daily pauses were only…