East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia
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East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Feith Shimila Murunga says her boss groped, beat and raped her. Mary Wanjiru Nyambura says she was thrown from a balcony. Winfridah Kwamboka never even made it back home. East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly…

Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Domestic Worker Abuse in Saudi Arabia
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Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Domestic Worker Abuse in Saudi Arabia

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In most countries, working as a housekeeper or nanny is a relatively safe profession. Yet as we traveled across Kenya and Uganda, from crowded and poor urban neighborhoods to far-flung farming villages, we heard many variations on the same horror story: Young, healthy…

Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
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Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former employee who published an explosive, tell-all memoir, as an arbitrator temporarily prohibited the author from promoting or further distributing copies. Sarah Wynn-Williams last week released “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed,…

Opinion | Dead Athletes. Empty Stands. Billions to Keep Horse Racing Alive.
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Opinion | Dead Athletes. Empty Stands. Billions to Keep Horse Racing Alive.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines One by one, the horses trot up the ramp and onto the track, pulling single-seat chariots behind them. Their drivers, dressed in garish green and bright pink silks, hop into position. Together, they begin to build up speed as they head into the…

Judge Says Trump Administration Memos Directing Mass Firings Were Illegal
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Judge Says Trump Administration Memos Directing Mass Firings Were Illegal

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to retract directives that prompted the firing of thousands of federal workers, saying that those directives were “illegal” and suggesting that the layoffs be stopped. The ruling, by Judge William Alsup of the Northern…

North Koreans on Chinese Tuna Boats Boost Revenue for Kim Jong-un
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North Koreans on Chinese Tuna Boats Boost Revenue for Kim Jong-un

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines They spent up to 10 years at sea, toiling in some of the harshest conditions distant-water fishing crews ​can face. Many never set foot on land because their Chinese captains did not want them to be seen by the port authorities. Most of…

Blake Lively Adds Claims From 2 Other Women to Justin Baldoni Lawsuit
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Blake Lively Adds Claims From 2 Other Women to Justin Baldoni Lawsuit

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The actress Blake Lively filed an amended complaint on Tuesday in her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, claiming that her co-star in the film “It Ends With Us” made two other actresses on the set “uncomfortable,” and that they were prepared to testify about…

Unruly Passenger Aboard Frontier Flight Bashes Window and Is Subdued
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Unruly Passenger Aboard Frontier Flight Bashes Window and Is Subdued

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Chaos erupted aboard a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Houston this week when a man started bashing a window and several seats around him, prompting other passengers to subdue him with shoelaces and zip ties until the plane landed. The struggle, captured…

Clues From D.C. Plane Crash Suggest Multiple Failures in Aviation Safety
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Clues From D.C. Plane Crash Suggest Multiple Failures in Aviation Safety

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Clues emerging from the moments before the deadly collision Wednesday night between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet suggest that multiple layers of the country’s aviation safety apparatus failed, according to flight recordings, a preliminary internal report from the Federal…

Amazon’s Fight With Unions Heads to Whole Foods Market
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Amazon’s Fight With Unions Heads to Whole Foods Market

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At a sprawling Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia, a battle is brewing. The roughly 300 workers are set to vote on Monday on whether to form the first union in Amazon’s grocery business. Several store employees said they hoped a union could negotiate…