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Writing for The New Republic, Clio Chang recently described her three-month attempt to receive unemployment benefits in New York after being laid off from her job at Vice. As a...

Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib said Friday that police were called while she and Representative Debbie Dingell attempted to visit an Amazon fulfillment center in Romulus, Michigan to observe working conditions.Tlaib...

Sleep trackers analyze a variety of data to score the quality of one’s sleep, but they can’t easily measure one’s sleeping position. Sleep position may be critical in some illnesses,...

SAN FRANCISCO — About 8,800 unaccompanied children have been quickly expelled from the United States along the Mexico border under a pandemic-related measure that effectively ended asylum, authorities said Friday.The...

Senator Sen. Susan Collins is seen during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss vaccines and protecting public health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C....

Bottom line: Financial services company Square has created a non-profit organization designed to help members of the cryptocurrency community collectively ward off patent trolls. Similar patent alliances for other technologies...

People who live in the southern U.S. are used to evacuating when severe hurricanes are headed their way. Yet in the case of 2017’s Hurricane Irma—which was the costliest tropical...

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani condemned Black Lives Matter protesters and NFL players who kneel during the national anthem, as he reflected on the September 11 attacks almost...

A 2019 report from the N.R.D.C., Environmental Justice Health Alliance, and Coming Clean found widespread violations and poor enforcement of the S.W.D.A., with communities of color hit the hardest. Between...

Six months into the pandemic, some laid-off workers find themselves waiting weeks or even months to receive their unemployment benefits. States blame antiquated technology and say their staffers can’t keep...