USA Update

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Yvonne Lee-Hawkins, a 45-year-old burnout coach in Auburn, Washington, about her experience as a manager at Amazon. It’s been edited for length and clarity. I worked at Amazon in the HR space for nearly a decade. Over time, I went from managing zero to 21 direct […]

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on Monday to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, both of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and to James Robinson of the University of Chicago. They won the prize for their work in explaining the differences in prosperity between nations, and for their research into how institutions […]

Most banks will be closed on Monday, known as Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, but the stock market will be open as will most retail stores and restaurants. Oct. 14 is one of 11 federal holidays that the Federal Reserve observes during the year. Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citibank branches will be […]

The 2024 for Economics was awarded on Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for their studies on how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.. The winners were announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a news conference in , marking the end of the 2024 Nobel season after prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace were […]

There’s only room for one killer clown at the top of box office charts. “Terrifier 3” slashed its way to No. 1 in North America, collecting a stellar $18.3 million from 2,514 theaters in its opening weekend. It’s a huge start for the ultra-gory, independently made, low-budget slasher film about a demonic clown who brutalizes […]

‘The Crown’s Jason Watkins Leading Channel 5 Cat-And-Mouse Thriller The Crown star Jason Watkins is leading his second Channel 5 drama of 2024, a cat-and-mouse thriller about a policeman haunted by a case he failed to solve. Catch You Later [working title] also stars Robson Green and Sunetra Sarker. Watkins leads as Huw Miller, a […]

South Korea’s military has announced it is “fully ready” to respond amid reports that North Korean troops have been deployed to the border and are getting ready to blow up roads connecting the two nations along the heavily militarised dividing line. Tensions have escalated in recent days as the nuclear-armed North accused Seoul of flying […]

During an early October camping trip with her family in upstate New York last year, Trisha Sena experienced every parent’s worst nightmare. Sena’s children were riding their bicycles along a loop around the lake on Oct. 3, 2023 – a Saturday – at Moreau Lake State Park when her 9-year-old daughter, Charlotte, disappeared. “Long story […]

TikTok is facing lawsuits from 14 state attorneys general who say the company’s algorithm harms children. Legal experts say the coordinated challenge is designed to take down big companies. Adam Wandt, an attorney and deputy chair for technology at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice, said the barrage of state lawsuits mirrors challenges against […]

Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 85 days as the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president without holding an official press conference.  Trump has held six news conferences where he took questions from the media since the beginning of August, including another this month after meeting with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp about hurricane […]