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Fast food outlets in California, US [quick service restaurants, or QSRs] have slashed almost 10,000 jobs in response to the state’s newly implemented $20 minimum wage. The figure was released by the Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank affiliated with Stanford University, Fox 5 News has reported. The...

QSRs cut 10,000 jobs owing to California’s $20 minimum wage law

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

UPI News

Greece became the first European Union country to implement a six-day work week in a bid by the government to boost productivity that drew intense criticism from labor unions.

Greece institutes 48-hour work week

Fortune

About a fifth of people between 15 and 24 worldwide in 2023 are currently NEETs. Just like Peter Pan, there’s a growing cohort of Gen Zers who are refusing to grow up and embrace life’s major milestones to adulthood, like getting some form of qualification or joining the world of work.

Gen Z are increasingly becoming NEETs by choice—not in employment, education, or training

ScienceAlert

Somewhere, out there, lurking in the Universe, is a whole bunch of matter we haven't been able to find. And it's not a trivial amount, either. Roughly 70 to 80 percent of all mass is considered to be the mysterious stuff known as dark matter. Normal matter makes up the minority. That's everything we can detect – all the stars, planets, black holes, dust, gas, moons, people.

A Glow in Jupiter's Night Could Be The Smoking Gun Signal For Dark Matter


A  black hole discovered lurking in the Cosmic Dawn is just way too big to easily explain. Sitting at the center of a galaxy called J1120+0641, it tips the scales at well over a billion Suns' worth of mass.



					
			

Bigger  black holes exist all around us today. The problem is the when of J1120+0641's existence. At less than 770 million years after the  Big Bang, it's hard to figure out how the black hole had the time to gain that much mass.
We've known about the galaxy and its overstuffed black hole for more than a decade, and scientists...

This Mysterious Black Hole at The Dawn of Time Weighs a Billion Suns


The last stand of the wooly mammoth was a sad, sickly affair.
On remote Wrangel Island off the north-east coast of Siberia the last of these once-majestic beasts breathed their final breaths, some 4,000 years ago. For many generations, the wooly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) had been on the decline, isolated on the island for 6,000 years. Dwindling populations led to inbreeding and a lack of genetic diversity that likely made the creatures very unwell indeed.



					
			

But surprising new research has found that this genetic bottleneck is not the reason the last of the mammoths died.
"We can now confidently reject the idea that...

Inbreeding Not to Blame For Wooly Mammoth Extinction, Surprising Study Finds

Kentucky State

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Kentucky’s medical cannabis program has taken significant steps toward ensuring those with qualifying conditions have access to medical cannabis as soon as possible, said Gov. Andy Beshear this week.

State to open licensing applications for medical cannabis businesses beginning July 1

After almost 800 years of relative dormancy, volcanoes on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula are returning to life with renewed ferocity. Eight eruptions have occurred since 2021 and new research suggests the upsurge in volcanic activity stems from a shallow pool of magma just 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) wide and only 9-12 kilometers below the surface.

Iceland's Volcanic Eruptions Could Continue For Decades, Study Finds

Tennessee State

New York Post

A major farm supply retailer said it will eliminate DEI roles, end its carbon emissions goals and cut ties to an LGBTQ advocacy group following a social media campaign calling for the firm to revoke its “woke” policies. 

Tennessee-based Tractor Supply — an 85-year-old company with 2,250 stores — made the decision after conservative commentator Robby Starbuck called for a boycott over the past three weeks on X. 

“We have heard from customers that we have disappointed them,” Tractor Supply said in a statement on Thursday. “We have taken this feedback to heart.”



The retail chain — which sells home improvement equipment, livestock,...

Tractor Supply ends ‘woke’ DEI, climate change policies after boycott campaign

PAUL DRIESSEN is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Heartland Institute, public policy institutes that promote... This election year, several critical issues dominate voter concerns. Illegal immigration across unsecured borders by migrants, criminals, sex traffickers and terrorists. Anti-police policies,...

Mining the planet for renewable energy

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The HD Post

CALIFORNIA – The Department of Labor (DOL) published, June 13, an unemployment insurance weekly claims advance report showing 90,000 California workers lost their job in the last two weeks.

Department of Labor reports over 90,000 California workers lost their job in the last two weeks

Georgia State

Reuters

(Reuters) - Just weeks after a U.S. appeals court blocked a Black-owned venture capitalist from funding women-of-color-led businesses, the ruling has had a chilling effect across the small industry of diversity-focused venture capital funds, according to founders, investors and lawyers who spoke to Reuters.

US court decision casts shadow on diversity venture capital funding


Every now and again, serendipity gives us a unique window into times long past.
An explosive volcanic eruption that took place in prehistory is one of them. As the ash from a pyroclastic flow during the Cambrian age was dumped on a shallow marine environment, its population of ancient arthropods called trilobites were preserved almost instantly – including any soft tissues that are normally degraded or destroyed during other fossilization processes.



					
			

Now, hundreds of millions of years later, those unfortunate animals have given us an unprecedented record of their three-dimensional anatomy, along with any smaller creatures that happened to be clinging to...

Never-Before-Seen Trilobite Anatomy Preserved by Pompeii-Like Ash in Morocco

San Francisco, CA

Kianna Writes

In a surprising turn of events, a California based Earth observation company, Planet, is facing another significant round of layoffs. The company recently announced it’s cutting 180 jobs, which accounts for about 17% of its workforce. This decision was revealed in filings with the SEC on June 26.

California Company Unexpectedly Cuts Hundreds of Jobs

The Guardian

Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres

Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

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Anika Jindal

In the rapidly advancing world where automation is rising, there is an open debate about job security. While robots are becoming increasingly sophisticated, there are still a significant number of jobs that machines simply can’t replace. These careers thrive on the very qualities that make us human – creativity, empathy, critical thinking, and the ability to build genuine connections.

15 Jobs Robots Can’t Replace Despite Advances in Automation


Ongoing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) testing of a 'microdose' psychedelic candy linked to dozens of illnesses across 20 states has identified several of the product's compounds as possible causes of the symptoms.



					
			

While none of the listed chemicals conclusively solve the medical mystery, the results reflect the poor state of regulation of a market responding to a rapidly growing interest in psychedelics for health and recreation.
Earlier this month, the FDA in collaboration with America's Poison Centers announced its investigation of eight reported illnesses linked with the consumption of Diamond Shruumz-brand Microdosing Chocolate Bars.
As of this week, that number stands...

FDA: Severe Illness From Psychedelic Candy Now Seen in 20 States

DeanLand

Georgia's population grew beyond the 11 million mark in 2023, reaching 11,029,227 residents according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. With a robust population increase of 2.9% from 2020 to 2023, 315,456 new residents arrived in the state. Georgia was the 10th fastest-growing state in the US by percentage during the reporting period.

Georgia's Population Surges Past 11 Million, Fueled by Migration


In the charcoaled remains of fires that smoldered more than 10,000 years ago, archaeologists have found evidence of what may be the longest continuing ritual – shared across generations of Indigenous Australians since the end of the last ice age to this day.



					
			

The ancestral lands of the GunaiKurnai Aboriginal people lie in the foothills of the Australian Alps, an alpine area in southeastern Australia dotted with rock boulders and limestone caves, and extend southwest to the Victorian coast.
These caves weren't used by the GunaiKurnai people for shelter, but as secluded retreats for magic practitioners known as mulla-mullung. Ethnographers documented these...

Ancient Cave Ritual From 10,000 Years Ago May Be World's Oldest Tradition

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Universal Basic Income Could Double World's GDP And Slash Emissions

What if we could keep everyone out of poverty while also tackling the climate crisis? It sounds too good to be true, but it could be...

Universal Basic Income Could Double World's GDP And Slash Emissions

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