Starbucks union strike Red Cup Day has turned a festive marketing event into a high-stakes showdown between the world-famous coffee chain and the baristas who power its stores. On one of Starbucks’ busiest promotional days of the year, workers at 65 unionised US stores walked off the job, demanding better pay, more reliable staffing and…
California atmospheric river storms: racing the sky rivers before they hit California atmospheric river storms are no longer obscure science jargon – they are the giant, skyborne “rivers” now shaping winters, water supplies and mega-flood risks across the US West. As a new atmospheric river bears down on Southern California, a small fleet of hurricane-hunter…
China EV Battery Dominance: How It Won the Race China EV battery dominance did not happen overnight. Two decades ago, the country had only a couple of companies experimenting with lithium-ion cells for vehicles. Today, Chinese manufacturers produce the vast majority of the world’s EV batteries and control almost the entire supply chain that powers…
Epstein files release has exploded into one of the most contentious political and legal fights in Washington, bringing together newly disclosed emails about Donald Trump, a rare congressional procedure known as a discharge petition, and long-running questions about justice for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims. In the span of just a few days, lawmakers released more than…
Epstein emails Trump — those three words are driving today’s political conversation after House Democrats publicized a handful of messages from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate while Republicans on the same committee followed with a far larger tranche. The new materials include a 2011 email suggesting Donald Trump “spent hours” with a victim at Epstein’s residence and…
US government shutdown deal advances after a weekend push in the Senate, setting up the most concrete path yet to end a record-long closure that began on October 1 and has stretched into its sixth week. In a key procedural vote late Sunday, Republicans joined with a small bloc of Democrats and one Independent to…
Last week, news broke that James Dean will star in a new movie-64 years after his death. A production company called Magic City got the rights to Dean’s image from the late actor’s estate and plans to bring him to the silver screen again thanks to the wonder (or terror) of CGI. Now, Dean, or…
Last week, news broke that James Dean will star in a new movie-64 years after his death. A production company called Magic City got the rights to Dean’s image from the late actor’s estate and plans to bring him to the silver screen again thanks to the wonder (or terror) of CGI. Now, Dean, or…
Last week, news broke that James Dean will star in a new movie-64 years after his death. A production company called Magic City got the rights to Dean’s image from the late actor’s estate and plans to bring him to the silver screen again thanks to the wonder (or terror) of CGI. Now, Dean, or…
Last week, news broke that James Dean will star in a new movie-64 years after his death. A production company called Magic City got the rights to Dean’s image from the late actor’s estate and plans to bring him to the silver screen again thanks to the wonder (or terror) of CGI. Now, Dean, or…
