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As of Monday, Amazon employees no longer have pandemic-era paid time off. The online retail giant announced it would trim its COVID-19 sick leave, allowing staffers five unpaid excused sick days if they are diagnosed with the coronavirus, instead of its previous 2-week paid leave policy, Reuters reports.

The United States likes to call itself a melting pot of people from all nations, creeds, colors, and languages. That's how the story was told in elementary school in the 1970s in the deeply segregated city of New York, and on TV through School House Rock segments sandwiched between the Saturday morning cartoons. In our more nuanced time — built from gray areas — we know it was only ever true for European, Christian, white speakers of fluent English.

In the "latest example of European authorities cracking down on the world's largest tech companies," European Union regulators on Monday accused Apple of breaking antitrust laws by unfairly boxing out competitors of its Apple Pay payment service, The New York Times reports. 

Ex-Defense Secretary Mark Esper alleges in a memoir out next week that former President Donald Trump suggested shooting Washington, D.C. demonstrators "in the legs" as they protested George Floyd's death in the summer of 2020, Axios reports Monday.

Actress Amber Heard has reportedly fired her PR team shortly before she's expected to testify in the Johnny Depp defamation trial. 

Bill Murray is speaking out after being accused of inappropriate behavior on the set of his new movie. 

One of my most-firmly held beliefs is that TV news — cable news, in particular — is terrible for democracy

Let me be succinct.

OK, I'm "succinct." Now how do you say me?

I did a little poll about this on Twitter and the results were interesting. Of 416 respondents, 55% said they pronounce it like "sus-sinct" (or "suh-sinct"), and 40% said they pronounce it like "suck-sinct." But what was even more interesting was that many of the respondents, however they said it, were shocked that anyone would pronounce it the other way.

A few respondents also pointed out rather primly that we... Читать дальше...

Political scientist Yascha Mounk is a professor at Johns Hopkins, a contributor to The Atlantic, and a podcast host. In his latest book, The Great Experiment, he examines how to prevent the collapse of democracies by bridging internal divides.

The main story on Sunday's Last Week Tonight was, broadly speaking, pollution. "We all suffer from exposure to pollution in this country, but some significantly more than others, thanks to what's called environmental racism," John Oliver explained. Black Americans are much more likely to be exposed to polluted air and live next to plants and factories than white Americans, even when controlled for income, he said, "proving yet again that racism is one of the few things in this country more powerful... Читать дальше...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) 10-day-long "enhanced" safety inspections of commercial trucks entering the state from Mexico may have cost Texas $4.2 billion in economic damage, as estimated by Waco-based Perryman Group, but it's been great for business in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, a border crossing just across state lines from El Paso. 

Whether it was on a course near her home in Arizona or through the streets of Boston, Jacky Hunt-Broersma spent 104 consecutive days making sure she ran 26.2 miles before the sun went down.

During her induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday evening, Wynonna Judd spoke about her mother Naomi Judd's death just one day earlier, telling the somber audience, "It's a strange dynamic to be this broken and this blessed ... but though my heart is broken, I will continue to sing."

In an instant, Sophia Furtado went from delivering a pizza to saving a life.

In the last two weeks, the Islamic State's affiliate in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for four major terrorist attacks in the country, raising concerns that this is the beginning of a new, violent battle between ISIS and the Taliban.