Number of Amazon Workers on Food Stamps Triples as Company Spends $200 Billion on AI
‘No one who works for a company making billions in profits should be living in poverty,’ Senator Bernie Sanders says.
By JOSEPH CURL
||Economy
JOSEPH CURL
Washington, D.C.
Joseph Curl is a Contributor of The New York Sun.
Mr. Curl covered the White House for a dozen years as a correspondent for the Washington Times. He also ran the Drudge Report for four years as the morning editor.
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Just 10 Minutes of Forest Birdsong Cuts Stress, Study Finds
Researchers recruited 106 student volunteers to test their responses to natural forest sounds versus city traffic in different environments.
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New Jersey Bans Grocery Stores From Using Shoppers’ Personal Data To Set Prices
‘The last thing they need is companies secretly using their personal data to charge them more than someone else for the exact same product,’ Governor Mikie Sherrill says.
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Trump Lights Up the White House Correspondents Dinner With Jokes, Jabs, and a ‘Trump 2028’ Hat
‘When I’m not around, you’re all going to be broke,’ he told the ballroom full of journalists.
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‘They Won’t Even Miss the Raspberries I Steal’ Says Millennial as Shoplifting Rises Among Young, Well-off
Poll finds 39 percent of Gen Zers and 38 percent of Millennials report having shoplifted, compared with 24 percent of Gen Xers, 18 percent of Baby Boomers.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Record 105.8 Million Americans Now ‘Not In the Labor Force’
The number of those ‘not in the labor force’ jumped by 832,000 in June alone and has grown by 2.5 million since the start of the year.
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OpenAI Gone Awry: Company Confirms Autonomous Hack of Rival In ‘Unprecedented’ Cyber Incident
‘Advanced models can discover and exploit novel attack paths in real-world systems without source-code access,’ OpenAI says — even with restricted Internet access.
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State Department Names Liberal American Activists and Officials in Report Detailing Extensive Spying Campaign by Cuba
The State Department says Cuba has infiltrated U.S. institutions and influenced many of America’s celebrity and political classes with the goal of turning ‘America against itself.’
By JOSEPH CURL
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Electricity Prices Have Surged 18 Percent Since Trump Took Office Despite His Promise To Cut Them in Half
‘I will cut the price of electricity and energy in half’ in 18 months, the president said on the campaign trail.
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Florida’s Failed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Inspires Israeli Crocodile Clink
‘Are you thinking of attempting to escape? Think again,’ National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says.
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Seattle’s Spherical Raccoon ‘Jimothy’ Goes Viral — and Gets a City Proclamation
Many have speculated the raccoon’s appearance is caused by short spine syndrome, a rare congenital disorder.
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Israel’s UN Ambassador: Mamdani, Not Netanyahu, Should Be Arrested
‘Instead of focusing on his responsibilities as mayor and confronting the rising wave of antisemitism in his city, he has chosen to incite hostility,’ Israel’s envoy says.
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