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A towering wall of sand rushed over factories and apartment blocks in northwestern China’s Gansu province as seasonal sandstorms barrelled across the country, causing air pollution and traffic accidents. Aerial images as it struck showed an apocalyptic scene as a

The administration also plans to eliminate the tipped minimum wage for federal contractors by 2024, raising it to $15 from the current level of $7.65. (Image credit: Anna Moneymaker/Pool/Getty Images)

It’s been a year since teachers were handed an unprecedented request: educate students in entirely new ways, amid the backdrop of a global pandemic. This week takes us to a librarian and a bus driver. (Image credit: Eda Uzunlar/NPR)

Guesty, which has created property management software for hosts on short-term rental platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo, is announcing that it has raised $50 million in Series D funding. “In the public markets, there are many players in hospitality property

DoorDash is announcing new pricing plans for the restaurants who use the platform for pickups and deliveries. Before this, the company did not offer standardized pricing across restaurants. However, the question of how high delivery app fees might go (and

Revolutionary Guards commander makes comments after reported strike on Iranian ship off Syrian coast and amid unrest in Jerusalem and on Gaza border

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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin filed a protest against NASA’s decision to award Elon Musk’s SpaceX a $2.9 billion award to develop a human-lander system to return astronauts to the moon. Blue Origin called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office to

A group called Babuk claimed to be behind the ransomware attack on the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. (Image credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)