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Senate Inquiry Finds BMW Imported Cars Tied to Forced Labor in China
A congressional investigation found that BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Volkswagen purchased parts that originated from a Chinese supplier flagged by the United States for participating in forced labor...
James Greenfield, Globe-Trotting Reporter and Times Editor, Dies at 99
James L. Greenfield, an urbane journalist who covered postwar world affairs for Time magazine, served as a State Department official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and for nearly...
Renting or Buying Is Often Personal, but It’s Also Helpful to Look at the Numbers
The Upshot last week updated one of its earliest and most popular projects: the Rent or Buy calculator. Its lasting popularity is no mystery: All of us make this...
Farm Animals Are Hauled All Over the Country. So Are Their Pathogens.
As they travel, farm animals can also leave pathogens in their wake. In one study, scientists found that disease-causing bacteria, including some that were resistant to antibiotics, flowed off...
A Safety Check for OpenAI
OpenAI’s fear factorThe tech world’s collective eyebrows rose last week when Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder who briefly led a rebellion against Sam Altman, resigned as chief scientist. Some...
Chinese Firms Face Authoritarianism at Home and Hostility Abroad
One April afternoon in 2018, Zhang Yiming, the founder of the Beijing-based online media company ByteDance, got a notice from Chinese regulators to shut down an app where people...
Disneyland Character Workers at California Park Vote to Unionize
A majority of Disneyland cast members who perform as characters such as Mickey and Minnie Mouse and dance in parades at the amusement park, in California, voted to unionize...
Amazon holds early lead in noteworthy association political race
Amazon shows up prone to be made a beeline for triumph over activists expecting to build up the unionized stockroom in the US. Votes against a more than 2 to...
Workers in New York beat Amazon in a fight for unionization
For the first time in its history, Amazon will be forced to recognize a trade union in the United States. Workers in a New York facility voted 55% in favor...
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