More than 75,000 unionized Kaiser Permanente employees, one of the nation’s largest non-profit health providers, walked off the job on Wednesday, marking the largest health care worker strike in U.S. history. The striking employees in California, Colorado, Washington, Virginia, Oregon, and Washington, DC are represented by a coalition of unions that account for 40 percent…
The 2030 World Cup will be held in Morocco, Spain, and Portugal. However, the first three games will be played in Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay. As part of the 100th anniversary of the first World Cup, South America put in a bid to host the whole thing. On Wednesday, FIFA said that the decision to…
Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexei I. Ekimov were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and refinement of quantum dots, nanoparticles whose size determines their properties. Quantum dots, which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences describes as the “smallest components of nanotechnology,” are utilized in LED lights and television displays…
On Tuesday, a federal judge said that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission couldn’t review her recent decision about Ripple Labs. This is seen as a big loss for the SEC’s efforts to keep cryptocurrency markets safe. In her ruling on July 13, U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan said that the sale of…
The founder of NewsClick website, Prabir Purkayastha, and another staff member were arrested after raids because they were accused of getting money from outside the country to spread pro-China lies. India’s police have caught a well-known writer and founder of a news website for allegedly getting money from abroad to spread pro-China propaganda. This was…
Eleven months ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was a crypto hero living in the Bahamas. He was in charge of a startup backed by celebrities, and his fans and friends thought he was the real deal. A math genius at MIT A thinker who went his own way instead of following Wall Street A generous person was…
Birkenstock, a German premium footwear brand sponsored by the private-equity firm L Catterton, announced on Monday that it will seek a valuation of up to $9.2 billion in its highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) in New York. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company and its selling stockholders…
A pair of scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing the technology that lead to the mRNA Covid vaccines. The incentive will be divided between Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman. Before the pandemic, the technology was experimental, but it has now been distributed to millions of people around…
On Monday, Donald Trump and his family business are scheduled to stand trial in New York in a civil fraud case that could deliver a significant setback to the former president’s real estate empire. Letitia James, the Democratic attorney general of New York, accuses Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, of…