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Western U.S. Avalanches Claim More Lives in Recent Weeks
One person was killed in an avalanche in central Colorado on Saturday, marking just the latest fatality stemming from avalanches in the western U.S. this season. Authorities in Grand County responded ...
U.S. Auto Safety Agency Laid Off 4% of Staff
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration laid off 4 percent of its staff as part of a government-wide trimming of probationary employees, a spokesperson said Monday. The agency has pending ...
EEOC Seeks to Drop Transgender Discrimination Cases
Signaling a major shift in civil rights enforcement, the federal agency that enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws has moved to dismiss six of its own cases on behalf of workers alleging gender ...
What Private Equity Can Teach Executives About Metrics: Fridson
Wall Street is often blamed for reducing corporate managers' understanding of business to a single, gameable measure of success: quarterly earnings versus analysts' consensus forecast. The Making of ...
California Governor Asks Congress for Nearly $40B for LA Wildfire Relief
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked Congress to approve nearly $40 billion in aid to help the Los Angeles area recover from January's devastating wildfires, which he said could become the ...
Cybertruck Crash Raises Alarm About Tesla’s Self-Driving Software
A crash involving a Tesla Cybertruck in self-driving mode this week has sparked worries about the reliability of the company's software that powers the feature, days after CEO Elon Musk said he would ...
Supreme Court to Rule on ‘Reverse’ Bias: Decision Could Prompt More Suits Against Employers
Marlean Ames received numerous promotions and good evaluations over the years working in Ohio's youth corrections system, so when she was denied a promotion and demoted in 2019 with a $40,000 pay cut ...
Wisconsin Beckons: Proposed 10K Tax Break for Wildfire, Helene Relocations
People who lost their homes to Hurricane Helene or California wildfires could get a sizeable tax break to move to Wisconsin. Republican legislators in the Dairy State have proposed a bill that would ...
Trump’s SEC Leader Shifts Power From Investors to Boardrooms
New policies from the top U.S. securities regulator hand corporate boards more power over investors in ways that could curtail investor-initiated reform efforts on everything ...