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More than a thousand Starbucks workers have commenced a strike in more than 40 cities across the US on Thursday amid stagnant negotiations with the world’s largest coffee chain over a first union contract.On the company’s annual “red cup day”, hailing the start of the lucrative holiday season, Starbucks Workers United is launching an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike, with rallies planned in locations including New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois; Columbus, Ohio; and Anaheim, California.About 65 stores are initially affected. Organizers plan to expand the strike to more locations should executives hold firm – and want customers to…

Editor’s note: Black Friday doesn’t officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we’ve rounded up the best early Black Friday deals you can already get.Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, you can capture a moment in a photo that you can see and touch almost immediately. Images captured by an instant camera aren’t as pristine or perfect as those produced by modern digital cameras,…

After using ex-players, animation and slime to draw casual fans into the NFL, the league is tapping a new segment of the TV audience for an alternate broadcast: reality fans. Peacock and NFL+ will feature a Reality Hot Seat altcast for the Dec. 7 game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans. The booth will feature Survivor and The Traitors alum Rob Mariano, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay, TV and podcast host Justin Sylvester (E!’s Daily Pop) and Kate Chastain of Below Deck and The Traitors. The alternate stream will highlight “the storylines, rivalries and…

The NFL is aiming to halt the NFL Players Association’s annual report cards grading each of the 32 franchises, according to ESPN’s Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr.”The league claims the report cards, which poll players on various aspects of working conditions, violate a CBA clause that says NFL owners and the union must ‘use reasonable efforts to curtail public comments by club personnel or players which express criticism of any club, its coach, or its operation and policy,’ according to an August letter from the league’s management council to NFLPA general counsel Tom DePaso that was obtained by…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Only a few hours after its birth, astronomers successfully glimpsed the aftermath of a nearby supernova. According to their study recently published in the journal Science Advances, their stellar accomplishment thanks to quick thinking and intense geometrical calculations is already providing clues to longstanding questions about some of the universe’s most impressive and powerful events. On April 10, 2024, astronomers began the fast-paced mission to capture supernova SN 2024ggi. Study coauthor Yi Yang of Tsinghua University in China initially learned about its sighting shortly after arriving…

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South Sudan’s leader Salva Kiir has in a shock move dismissed one of his vice-presidents, Benjamin Bol Mel, who had been tipped as his possible successor.Kiir stripped Bol Mel of his military rank of general and dismissed him from the national security service. He also sacked the central bank governor and the head of the revenue authority, both considered close allies of Bol Mel.No explanation was given for the dismissals, which were announced in a decree broadcast on state television.It comes when there are growing fears of political instability and a possible return to civil war, after the recent collapse…

LONDON, ENGLAND – MAY 5: Adam Wharton of Crystal Palace and Elliot Anderson of Nottingham Forest during the Premier League match between Crystal Palace FC and Nottingham Forest FC at Selhurst Park on May 5, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Jacques Feeney/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)Offside via Getty ImagesNo Liverpool players have been selected by Thomas Tuchel for England’s latest national team, but there are a handful that have been included that would improve Arne Slot’s side as it struggles to defend its Premier League title.Liverpool players have been mainstays of the England men’s national team for decades. Two of…

In many churches, often strapped for cash, the switch to a heat pump may be borne from necessity. Staff at St. Peter Mancroft Church in Norwich, which already had solar panels, opted to make the jump to a heat pump system when one of their old gas boilers failed.“The church decided this was a good time to try and commit to it,” says Nicholas Jackson, from architectural design firm Nicholas Vanburgh Ltd. Jackson is also a fabric officer for the church. Last year, two table-like, upward-facing air source heat pumps were installed in a small yard next to the 15th-century…

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 million people last year, according to the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2025, released today. Despite measurable progress in diagnosis, treatment and innovation, persistent challenges in funding and equitable access to care threaten to reverse hard-won gains in the global fight against TB.”Declines in the global burden of TB, and progress in testing, treatment, social protection and research are all welcome news after years of setbacks, but progress is not victory,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “The fact that…