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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil was set to join other Latin American countries that have shortened working hours as the lower house approved a constitutional amendment Wednesday establishing a 40-hour, five-day workweek. The proposal is widely popular in Brazil ahead of presidential elections in October, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sponsored the move …
NEW YORK (AP) — Your favorite pair of jeans may have traveled around the world through cotton farms, dye houses, wash facilities and factories before ending up in your closet. The denim may have never been worn but it is stonewashed, sanded, chemically faded or laser-treated to look like it. Those processes can require significant …
SYDNEY, May 28 (Reuters) – Australia’s health minister said on Thursday the quarantine period for repatriated passengers on a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak will be extended to 42 days total until June 23. Four Australian citizens, a permanent resident and one resident of New Zealand have been quarantined at a …
Stop AAPI Hate, the organization that rose to national prominence for its meticulous report on anti-Asian hate at the height of the pandemic, is channeling its resources into an initiative to rock the vote. The new nonprofit, Stop AAPI Hate Action, will be a political and advocacy arm dedicated to getting more Asian Americans and …
HONG KONG (AP) — PayPal users will be able to make cashless payments in China using QR codes through Tencent’s WeChat Pay’s extensive merchant network, the Chinese technology giant says, in a move calibrated to attract more foreign tourists. Apart from social media and messaging, Tencent’s WeChat offers payment services called WeChat Pay, or Weixin …
NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday refiled a defamation lawsuit seeking at least $10 billion in damages against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, after a judge threw out an earlier version over legal deficiencies. The lawsuit is one of several Trump has …
NEW YORK (AP) — The proportion of Americans without health insurance held steady at around 8% of the population in 2025, according to new findings from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The national survey results, released Thursday, show the all-ages uninsured rate has stayed significantly down from where it was several years …
Gilgil, Kenya — A fire at a school for girls in central Kenya has caused an unknown number of deaths, according to police, who said search teams have been deployed. The Reuters news service reported that police said at least 15 students were killed. Reuters said broadcaster Citizen Television quoted county police official Masoud Mwinyi …
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections. The World Meteorological Organization also forecasts an overheating Arctic that warms nearly 3 degrees …
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The packed race for California governor has left many Democrats in the state wrestling with who to vote for in the race’s closing days. Though voting began in early May ahead of the June 2 primary, Democrats have been returning their ballots at a slower pace than normal after a chaotic …