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Amazon workers at seven US facilities walked off the job early on Thursday during the holiday shopping rush, aiming to pressure the retailer into contract talks with their union.
Warehouse workers in cities including New York, Atlanta and San Francisco are taking part in the “largest” strike against Amazon, said the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents about 10,000 workers at 10 of the firm’s facilities.
Police in Utah believe a father killed his wife and three children and critically injured their 17-year-old son at the family's home this week then turned a firearm on himself, according to new details released by authorities.
The bodies and the lone survivor were found Tuesday night inside a house in West Valley City, a southwest Salt Lake City suburb, police first reported.
The discovery took place after the mother failed to report to work this week, according to the West Valley Police Department, the lead agency on the case. A concerned relative entered the garage of the home, found a 17-year-old boy critically injured, and notified police.
The Supreme Court is stepping into the TikTok debate.
The high court agreed on Wednesday to decide whether a law banning the app next month, unless it is sold, is constitutional.
The court did not place the law on hold, putting off that decision until oral arguments, which have been set for Jan. 10, which is nine days before TikTok's sell-or-be-banned deadline.
A new report from the New York City department of investigation on the New York police department’s drone operations has been released amid a flurry of drone sightings and activity along the eastern seaboard and elsewhere across the US.
The report indicates that the NYPD’s current use and impact policies regarding its drone operations do not “sufficiently disclose details related to the capabilities of the technology”.
Pilots of aircraft that have been misidentified as drones — amid an uptick of mysterious sightings in recent days — have been hit in the eyes with lasers, the FBI revealed Monday.
“FBI Newark and New Jersey State Police want to warn the public about an increase in pilots of manned aircraft being hit in the eyes with lasers because people on the ground think they see an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS),” the FBI’s field office in Newark said in a statement posted to the social platform X.
“There is also a concern with people possibly firing weapons at what they believe to be a UAS but could be a manned aircraft,” it added.
Drone sightings have rattled multiple states in the Northeast, most notably New Jersey, over the past month. Federal government officials said Monday that recent drone sightings have included a combination of “lawful” drones, other aircraft and stars.
“We recognize the concern among many communities,” the Federal Aviation Administration, FBI, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense said in a joint statement.
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The House Ethics Committee in the coming days will release its report on former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz after a secret vote earlier this month, according tomultiple reports.
The report, which is expected to detail allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, will reportedly be released as lawmakers leave Washington for the holiday. CNN reported the vote Wednesday morning, citing multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.
The vote is an about-face for the committee, which had declined to release the report in November after Gaetz resigned during his brief time as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. Attorney General.
The 10-member committee is equally divided between Republicans and Democrats and holds its meetings behind closed doors.
Five family members are dead and a 17-year-old boy was clinging to life Wednesday after police said a relative discovered the victims inside a north central Utah home.
The bodies and the survivor were found Tuesday night inside a house in a West Valley City, a southwest Salt Lake City suburb, police first reported on X.
Police said the dead − a 42-year-old man, a 38-year-old woman, an 11-year-old boy, a 9-year-old girl and a 2-year-old girl − appear to all live in the home.
It was not immediately known how the victim's died but their deaths were being investigated as homicides, West Valley City Police Department spokesperson Roxeanne Vainuku said during a press conference late Tuesday night.
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