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Salesforce’s year got off to a rocky start when the company announced a second round of layoffs that affected 10% of its employees, whom the company affectionately refers to as its “ohana,” or family. The day after Salesforce announced the cuts, CEO Marc Benioff chaired an all-hands meeting to explain the company’s decision. It didn’t go well. Employees criticized Benioff…

Sunday’s Super Bowl was the third most-watched television show in history, with an estimated 113 million viewers watching as the Kansas City Chiefs battled to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles. The 2015 game between New England and Seattle on NBC holds the record with 114,442,000 viewers, followed by Super Bowl 48 on Fox in 2014 between Seattle and Denver (112,191,000). Fox…

House Republicans Monday launched an investigation into the origins of COVID-19 by releasing a series of letters to current and former officials in the Biden administration for documents and testimony. Republican chairs of the House Oversight Committee and Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic called for several people, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, information on the hypothesis that the coronavirus accidentally leaked…

As mystery continues to swirl around the balloon and three other previously unidentified objects shot down by the US in recent days, at least one thing is clear: the weapons that shot them out of the sky. Be it the original alleged Chinese surveillance balloon shot down off South Carolina or the as-yet-unknown objects targeted over Alaska, Michigan and Canada,…

According to a shocking report released Monday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly a third of teenage girls have drunk alcohol in the past month, and nearly a quarter planned suicide in the past year. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, released every decade, paints an equally bleaker, if not darker picture for LGBQ+ teenagers. Along with…

The executive director of Oregon’s alcohol regulator announced his resignation Monday after a criminal investigation led to allegations that he and other senior officials used their positions to divert rare, desirable bourbons for personal use. Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission Executive Director Steve Marks noted in his resignation letter that Gov. Tina Kotek had asked him to resign. He said…

David Jude Jolicoeur, widely known as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of Long Island hip-hop trio De La Soul, has died. He was 54. His representative, Tony Ferguson, confirmed the reports on Sunday. Further information was not immediately available. In recent years, Jolicoeur had said he battles congestive heart failure and wears a LifeVest defibrillator device.…

Analysts are warning that the next monthly CPI report, due on Tuesday, could show US inflation rising for the first time in six straight months. But one of the country’s leading economists advises against reading too much into it. Inflation is likely to have risen 0.4% in January from December, while core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy items,…

On Colorado’s northeastern plains, where the pencil-straight horizon separates golden fields and blue skies, a farmer named Danny Wood strives to plant and harvest short, seasonal windows of proso sorghum, dryland corn, and winter wheat. Until his high-tech Steiger 370 tractor gave up the ghost. The tractor’s manufacturer doesn’t allow Wood to make certain repairs himself, and last spring his…

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Monday the government would do “whatever is necessary” to protect the country as the UK announced a security review after several unidentified objects were shot down in the skies over North America. Asked about the objects, Sunak said he would “not comment in detail on security issues, but people should be reassured that we…