REDDING, California.- A father and son are expected to face federal kidnapping charges after they tied up two U.S. Forest Service employees and held them at gunpoint inside a trailer in Northern California near Mount Shasta. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said the two workers were conducting routine field operations in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest
Microsoft laid off 1,600 employees in its Xbox division this week, including hundreds of union video game workers represented by the Communications Workers of America. The workforce reduction adds to what new CEO Asha Sharma calls the “most significant restructuring” in the history of the Microsoft division. Microsoft on Monday announced approximately 4,800 total job
July 10, 2026 — 5:01 a.m. Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. TOTOTO I work in a hospital. Like many doctors of my generation, I have spent decades participating in night shifts, night rosters, and emergency calls. While I remain committed to
Meanwhile, as the new AI boom takes hold, its residents tell the story of who stays in San Francisco and who doesn’t. Two San Francisco families with school-age children, who requested anonymity to protect their privacy, recently managed to purchase move-in-ready single-family homes to meet their desperate needs for more space, but only one was
A row has broken out in Germany after the coalition government announced changes to sick leave rules, requiring Germans to provide a doctor’s note to their employers on the first day of their illness. The changes also mean that workers will not be able to obtain the note by phone, eliminating a measure introduced due
The $24 billion Dutch bank ABN Amro is cutting a fifth of its workforce over the next three years—so how is its CEO Marguerite Bérard rallying the troops? By sacrificing her long meals and talking over the growing pains with staffers over weekly lunches. “I now take lunch early and at my desk,” Bérard told