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A hearing officer for a federal labor board has rebuffed Amazon's attempt to scrap a historic union win at a warehouse on Staten Island, New York, handing victory to organizers in what could be a very long battle for recognition.

Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican Latin trap and reggaeton artist who's among the world's biggest stars, scored MTV's artist of the year award on Aug. 28 at the annual Video Music Awards.

For years, global health officials have used billions of drops of an oral vaccine in a remarkably effective campaign aimed at wiping out polio in its last remaining strongholds, typically, poor, politically unstable corners of the world.

US actor Tony Sirico, best known for portraying Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri in "The Sopranos," has died aged 79, his family and a former castmate said on July 8. 

Sirico played minor mobster roles in television and film for decades before being cast in his fifties as the eccentric and sometimes brutal Paulie on HBO's hit show -- becoming one of the series' most memorable characters.

Former Israeli intelligence officer Yaakov Kedmi emphasized that the North Atlantic Alliance should disappear because of its uselessness.
"As a military power, it (NATO) does not represent anything," Kedmi is convinced.

New York's new law barring sales of bullet-resistant vests to most civilians doesn't cover the type of armor worn by the gunman who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket, a gap that could limit its effectiveness in deterring future military-style assaults.

Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on June 18, a union said, joining a growing push across U.S. retail, service and tech industries to organize for greater workplace protections.

As intelligent as she is, Happy the elephant doesn't meet the definition of a "person" and is therefore not being illegally confined in the Bronx Zoo, New York's top court ruled on June 14 in a closely watched case for animal rights.

Audio streaming platform Spotify has said it is aiming to have one billion users by 2030 as well as an annual revenue of $100 billion in a decade.

New York lawmakers have passed a milestone environmental measure designed to tap the brakes on the spread of cryptocurrency mining operations that burn fossil fuels.

Both supporters and opponents say that the closely watched bill, approved early Friday by the state Senate, is the first of its kind in the U.S.