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Starbucks union members and their supporters, including baristas who just quit their jobs, picket in front of the store, effectively closing down their local branch, in New York City, February 28, 2025. Andrew Lichtenstein Corbis News | Getty Imagesstarbucks The union said on a conference call with investors Friday that Workers United presented the company with a comprehensive contract proposal last month, as baristas seek to sign their first collective bargaining agreement with the coffee giant.Here’s what the barista asked for in that proposal:Protects union baristas from discrimination, unfair dismissal, and temporary or permanent store closures. The starting wage floor…

The U.S. Army announced late Friday that it has signed a 10-year contract with defense technology startup Anduril. The deal could be worth up to $20 billion. The agreement begins with a five-year “base term,” with an option to extend for an additional five years, and includes Anduril’s hardware, software, infrastructure and services, according to the announcement. The Army describes the agreement as a single enterprise contract that combines “more than 120 separate procurement activities for Anduril commercial solutions.” “The modern battlefield is increasingly defined by software,” Gabe Chiuri, chief technology officer in the Department of Defense’s Office of the…

The Putman brothers are remembering an unimaginable tragedy. On September 26, six months after patriarch Bill “Papa” Putman, matriarch Barb “Neenie” Putman, and stepdaughter Megan Putman were killed in a car accident, Blake Putman, father of Noah, 15, Lulu, 13, and Alena, 11, with Megan, gave an update on his family’s well-being. “I remember everything. I remember the car hitting us. I remember being on the road. I remember a lot of the scenes inside the car,” Blake, 37, who was driving the car when it was struck by the semi-truck, said in an interview published March 13. The “Meet…

In the Premier League, Arsenal defeated Everton 2-0 and are aiming to win the title.listen to this article | 2 minutesinformationPublished March 14, 2026March 14, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareplus 2 googleAdd Al Jazeera to Googleinformation16-year-old Arsenal winger Max Dauman became the Premier League’s youngest scorer after scoring a stunning stoppage-time goal in his team’s 2-0 win over Everton.Dauman collected the ball in the middle of his own half, dribbled past two Everton players and ran unchallenged from the halfway line into the empty net. Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford was stuck on the field after driving forward…

The possibility of getting a tariff dividend check also appears to have been abandoned after the Supreme Court struck down most of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies last month, experts said.”The tariff dividend was a surprise from the beginning,” Stephen Cates, a certified financial planner and financial analyst at Bankrate, told CNBC at the time. Cates said such a wide-ranging benefits program would require legislation passed by Congress, but “there doesn’t seem to be enough political support.” “The chances of this policy moving forward are now virtually zero.”Then came the Tariff Refund for Working Families Act. On Thursday, Sen. Martin…

Check out some of the companies that made the biggest moves midday: Adobe — The software giant saw its stock price drop more than 5%. CEO Shantanu Narayan said he would step down once a successor has been chosen. Mr. Narayan will remain chairman of the company’s board of directors. He has been Adobe’s CEO since 2007, but the news overshadowed the company’s first-quarter sales and bottom-line growth. Fertilizer stocks — Shares of fertilizer companies have regained some of their gains from earlier this week on expectations that the Strait of Hormuz disruption will continue, disrupting key industrial inputs and…

Ten years after the couple made headlines after a nude video with former Miss Teen USA Kari Ann Peniche surfaced online, Dane addressed the scandal in a rare interview. “I think a lot about the answers I gave, and looking back now, was it a mistake? Absolutely not,” she told Glamor, who previously described the incident as a mistake. “Three consenting adults, one of whom is my wife? I didn’t do anything wrong.” He added that previous comments were “likely to refer to the drug use alluded to in the video.” “And was it a mistake? Again, I don’t necessarily…

The Trump administration has launched a series of measures to try to cushion the blow from the Iranian-led oil price hike, but prices remain high.As the war drags on, it becomes clear that there is not much the United States or other governments can do to relieve high oil prices other than ending the conflict. A military breakthrough is needed to distribute oil and lower energy prices. That means this event is very different from past market crises that President Donald Trump has weathered. The pattern of escalating political tensions followed by rapid economic relief that has lasted throughout President…

Iran may have superior weapons and spending to the United States and Israel, but it has one major advantage: control of the Strait of Hormuz. By attacking ships navigating the narrow waterway, Iran has effectively shut down the shipping route through which a fifth of the world’s oil supplies pass. Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei showed no signs of letting up, warning in what was said to be his first message that the strait would remain closed as a “means of pressure.” The strait remains almost completely closed to Western and allied shipping, according to maritime intelligence trackers, while…

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer speaks with Bloomberg TV outside the White House on Friday, December 19, 2025, in Washington, DC. Stephanie Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images”The whole reason the president imposed these tariffs was to try to influence and influence the massive trade imbalances that we’ve had for years because of China, Vietnam, the European Union and others,” Greer said. “If companies are going to get this windfall, they should give it to their employees as a bonus or a raise, because that’s what this program is for. That’s always been the purpose of the program. And the…