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The Washington state Senate passed a law Friday that grants drivers certain benefits and protections while preventing them from being classified as employees — a… Read More »Washington State Makes Milestone Deal on Gig Driver Job Status

Russian government announced on Friday that it blocked Facebook. Within hours, Twitter popped up are also blocked. The moves are a major escalation in a… Read More »Russia blocks Facebook and Twitter in propagandistic standoff

The hill World Bank ends programs in Russia and Belarus The World Bank announced on Wednesday it would end all programs in Russia and Belarus,… Read More »Biden receives Finnish leader during invasion of Ukraine

WASHINGTON – As they impose historic sanctions on Russia, the Biden administration and European governments have set new goals: to destroy the Russian economy as… Read More »US and Europe aim to punish Putin and stir up Russian unrest with sanctions

Plus: Silicon Valley’s response to Snowden, reality-shifting stories, and a culmination of disaster.

Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout/Reuters Comic book hero Volodymyr Zelensky has survived at least three assassination attempts by elite hit squads since the Russian war started… Read More »Third assassination attempt on Zelensky fails as Putin unleashes ‘nuclear terror’

TOKYO — Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony announced Friday that it will partner with Honda to develop electric cars that will be on sale… Read More »Sony and Honda announce partnership to make electric cars.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s HusbandSaul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made public a series of stock transactions her husband made in… Read More »Nancy Pelosi has revealed her husband’s new range of investments, including $2.9 million in Apple, Disney, PayPal and Amex stock

One of René Magritte’s famous “Empire of Light” canvases was sold on Wednesday for £59.4 million with fees, or about $79.7 million, nearly three times… Read More »Magritte Sets Record With $79.7 Million Sales At Sotheby’s

Employees of the REI store in the Manhattan store began organizing in the fall of 2020.Credit…Spencer Platt/Getty Images Workers at a REI store in New… Read More »Stocks and companies respond to war in Ukraine: live updates

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California woman whose disappearance and mysterious return more than five years ago sparked a hectic three-week search was arrested… Read More »Woman pretended kidnapping, California ripped off

OneWeb, a satellite internet company partly owned by the British government, has canceled an upcoming satellite launch of a Russian rocket and suspended all future… Read More »Russian space isolation grows as OneWeb cancels launch

The Atlanta, a ship that sank to the bottom of Lake Superior, was found. Here is an image of the Nirvana, Atlanta’s sister ship. After… Read More »Shipwreck discovered in Lake Superior after 130 years: ‘Still beautiful’