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Franklin A. Thomas, Pathbreaking Ford Foundation President, Dies at 87

He rose from working-class Brooklyn to become the first Black person to run a major American philanthropy, and he revitalized it, shifting its focus to poverty and education.  » mehr lesen

Jesse Watters’s Incendiary Fauci Comments Follow a Fox News Pattern

Comments by Jesse Watters, a host of “The Five,” were in keeping with previous derogatory remarks about Dr. Anthony Fauci by hosts and conservatives.  » mehr lesen

Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel

Want to understand London’s economic transformation? Take a look at the condo conversion of a workhouse near where a young Charles Dickens lived.  » mehr lesen

Beware the Elf on a Shelf, Privacy Watchdogs Warn

Privacy organizations acknowledge that the elf isn’t the biggest security threat, but they say that he teaches children the wrong lessons about accepting surveillance.  » mehr lesen

Last-Minute Christmas Shopping Tradition Continues

New Yorkers headed out in droves in the final days of the holiday shopping season, undeterred by fears of the fast-spreading Omicron variant.  » mehr lesen

Toys ‘R’ Us Tries to Come Back, Four Years After Bankruptcy

The retailer, which had closed all its U.S. stores, has resurfaced at the American Dream mall in New Jersey, just in time for the holidays.  » mehr lesen

H. Jackson Brown Jr., Best-Selling Giver of Fatherly Advice, Dies at 81

His “Life’s Little Instruction Book,” which counseled “take someone bowling” and “believe in love at first sight,” has sold over seven million copies.  » mehr lesen

Amazon Reaches Labor Deal, Giving Workers More Power to Organize

The agreement’s national scope and its concessions to organizing go further than any previous settlement that the e-commerce giant has made.  » mehr lesen

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