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An Amazon warehouse worker says he was suspended after handing out flyers encouraging colleagues to join a union. John Hopkins’s account of his May 2 suspension from Amazon’s DSF4 facility in California is the latest example of the e-commerce giant allegedly cracking down on critics during the coronavirus pandemic. Amazon told Hopkins he was sidelined …

China’s parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly approved directly imposing national security legislation on Hong Kong to tackle secession, subversion, terrorism and foreign interference in a city roiled last year by months of anti-government protests. The National People’s Congress voted 2,878 to 1 in favour of the decision to empower its standing committee to draft the legislation, …

MLB and the players association are in a familiar situation unfamiliarly. They are fighting about money. Duh. Players and owners have done that since the inception of the game, quite publicly since the players association was formally recognized as a union in 1966. Within that frame, what occurred Tuesday is as routine as a pregame …

If the players and owners are running out of time to restart the 2020 baseball season by early July, they sure don’t appear to be running out of words. The tense negotiations exploded once more Wednesday night when Nationals veteran pitcher Max Scherzer, a member of the Major League Baseball Players Association’s executive subcommittee, tweeted …

What if MLB gets what it wants — players to forego a significant part of their salaries for 2020 — and then a group of players does not show up? That would be victory turning to defeat quickly for the owners, especially if these are star players and particularly since it could spark another round …

Here’s one Charles and Diana scandal you’ve probably never heard about. The three-part series “Quiz,” premiering Sunday (10 p.m. on AMC), chronicles the real-life cheating incident that nearly destroyed Britain’s version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” in 2001 — when Major Charles Ingram (Matthew Macfadyen, “Succession”) and his wife, Diana (Sian Clifford, “Fleabag”), …

It’s why they’re no longer tight. Meghan Markle finally fell out with future sister-in-law Kate Middleton at the rehearsal for her royal wedding — because of a squabble they had over wearing tights, a friend has claimed. Markle and her royal beau Prince Harry were already upset with his brother, Prince William, and his wife …

NBC tells Page Six that an investigation into alleged racism on the set of its long-running show “America’s Got Talent” uncovered no wrongdoing. The network launched the probe after former judge Gabrielle Union, 47, claimed in November last year that, among other things, show insiders complained that her hairstyles were “too black” and it was …

With more than one in six young people out of work, international leaders on Wednesday warned of the repercussions of creating a “lockdown generation” of young people who struggle to find work. The United Nation’s International Labor Organization issued the grim prediction in a report showing that more than one in six young people have …

US stock indexes rose at the open on Wednesday as a pickup in business activity fueled hopes of a post-pandemic economic recovery, but marts later gave up some of their gains as investors remained cautious about brewing US-China tensions. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 303.52 points, or 1.21 percent, at the open to 25,298.63. …