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Microsoft announced a new round of job cuts internally on July 10 after laying off 10,000 employees between January and March. The company confirmed the layoffs to GeekWire, which broke the news first but did not provide any further details. “Organizational and workforce adjustments are a necessary and regular part of managing our business. We

LOS ANGELES—Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten walked out of a California prison Tuesday after serving more than 50 years of a life sentence for her participation in two infamous murders. Ms. Van Houten “was released to parole supervision,” the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement. She left the California Institution

A conservative hair salon that vows “not to cater to woke ideologies” has pledged to turn away any potential customer who does not identify as either a man or a woman, triggering opposition from local LGBT activists and fueling online debate. The Traverse City-based Studio 8 Hair Lab said in a now-deleted post on Facebook that, as

Catastrophic flooding submerges entire city blocks in Vermont. Concerns are rising over dams reaching near capacity, with more rain on the way. Over in Atlanta, a grand jury is sworn in for the Fulton County investigation into whether or not former President Donald Trump and his allies attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election. NATO

Australia and the European Union have failed to conclude talks on a planned free trade agreement, the European Commission says. The EC statement followed comments from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese that any deal would need to give Australian farmers’ goods, especially beef and sheep meat, more access to the bloc. “We’ll continue to argue the case

With the Pennsylvania budget still mired in controversy, state House and Senate members have gone home for summer break and are expected back to work at the Capitol in Harrisburg in September, although they may be called back sooner. Republicans are reeling from an unexpected budget move by Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro, in which he

Australian universities have been likened to “a frog slowly boiling in water”, with most people fearing they focus on profit at the expense of quality education. Almost three-quarters of adults surveyed said they were worried about declining funding to the sector, according to a report from The Australia Institute’s Centre For Future Work. It found 83

Rising construction costs have slowed for the first time in two years as a drop in new home builds eases demand for materials and labour. The cost of building a home or renovating recorded its lowest average increase last month since September 2020, with potential knock-on effects for the housing market and inflation. The national quarterly

The World Health Organization (WHO) is negotiating a new pandemic treaty that could also give it powers to manage policies on climate change. This would give the WHO, and Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in particular, the unilateral power to declare global pandemics and craft the response. It has backing from the United States and European Union.

Commentary It’s discouraging. No matter what solutions are advanced, homelessness just keeps getting worse in California. The recently released point-in-time count found the number jumped 10 percent in the City of Los Angeles and 9 percent in Los Angeles County since 2022. For three days in January, more than 7,000 volunteers covered every inch of