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Hala Rharrit was a veteran U.S. diplomat who had always operated in the corridors of power, not the limelight, when she opted for a change two years ago to become one of the faces of U.S. diplomacy for Arab media. “I thought it would be quite thrilling,” Rharrit explained in one . . .
Federal regulators on Tuesday enacted a nationwide ban on new noncompete agreements, which keep millions of Americans — from minimum-wage earners to CEOs — from changing jobs within their industries. The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday afternoon voted 3-to-2 to approve the new rule, which will ban noncompetes for all workers when the regulations take […]
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I remember sitting in my manager’s sparsely decorated office, anticipating a pat on the back for the work I had been doing. At the time, I was the fastest visa adjudicator at the U.S. Embassy in a European capital, and I had also been engaging in a significant amount of outreach beyond my primary job. […]
Yale Law School started the exodus last November: Dozens of law and medical schools, many among America’s most elite, vowed not to cooperate with the U.S. News & World Report rankings juggernaut. The publisher’s priority-skewing formula was flawed, administrators complained, as was the notion that schools could be scored and sorted as if they were […]
By Zoe Kleinman Technology editor 1 hour ago Image source, Getty Images It was difficult to maintain a poker face when the leader of a big US tech firm I was chatting to said there was a definite tipping point at which the firm would exit the UK. I could see . . .
Hundreds of participants in scouting event in South Korea’s southwest have fallen ill due to soaring temperatures. Scouts from the United States and the United Kingdom are leaving the site of an international scouting jamboree in South Korea after hundreds of participants fell ill due to extreme heat. The US scouts will move to a […]
In May, Micron Technologies, the Idaho chipmaker, suffered a serious blow as part of the U.S.-China technology war. The Chinese government barred companies that handle crucial information from buying Micron’s chips, saying the company had failed a cybersecurity review. Micron said the change could . . .
While Russian exports of food and fertilizer are not subject to Western sanctions imposed after the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Moscow says restrictions on payments, logistics and insurance have amounted to a barrier to shipments. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said on Saturday that Russia “cannot be satisfied with how this memorandum is being […]
May 1 (Reuters) – Almost a third of the nurses in the United States are considering leaving their profession after the COVID-19 pandemic left them overwhelmed and fatigued, according to a survey. The survey of over 18,000 nurses, conducted by AMN Healthcare Services Inc