NEW YORK -- Online behemoth Amazon said it's increasing the minimum starting hourly wage for its U.S. full-time core operations employees to $20 ahead of the crucial holiday shopping season. With the $1-per-hour increase across the board for these ...
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With grocery prices still high, the average household still throws away more than 100 pounds of spoiled food every year which is nearly $3,000 in groceries. Reporting for TODAY, NBC’s Vicky Nguyen shares an inside look at how you can keep food ...
An epidemiologist from the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that the suspected hantavirus cluster aboard a cruise ship is not the beginning of another COVID-19 pandemic. Eight cases are currently being reported by the WHO, including fiv...
McDonald's debuts its own version of 'refresher' drinks...
Refresher drinks -- the fruity, colorful, ice cold concoctions -- are the beverage menu item growing in popularity from Starbucks to Sonic, and now, McDonald's is set to debut it's take on the trendy drink. McDonald's confirmed to ABC News...
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. In a ...
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A Seattle mom who lost her 3-year-old son in a drowning incident has now established a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives through water safety education, legislation and increasing equitable access to swimming lessons. Chezik Tsunoda c...
Explosions have been heard in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, a day after Russia accused Ukraine of carrying out a drone attack on the Kremlin. Attacks were also reported in Zaporizhzhia and Odesa in the south. The air strikes c...
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Global oil prices have fallen as China starts to implement a city-wide lockdown in Shanghai, an important financial and manufacturing hub. Brent crude lost more than $4.50 a barrel on concerns that the move would mean that demand...
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Pfizer and BioNTech have started clinical trials of a new Covid vaccine which targets the Omicron variant. The companies plan to test the protection gained from the new vaccine as a booster jab and as three separate jabs in unvac...
Chile has started administering fourth doses of Covid-19 vaccines, the first Latin American country to do so, as the Omicron variant fuels a surge in cases. People with weakened immune systems will be the first to receive the sho...
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Cities across the country brought back Thanksgiving Day parades that had been canceled last year. Holiday travel was back up, with airports seeing pre-pandemic levels of passengers....