Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs globally to undo pandemic-era hiring

Amazon announced a second major round of layoffs at the company in three months.

Amazon cuts 16,000 corporate jobs, undoing pandemic-era hiring amid AI push

By Greg Bensinger Jan 28 (Reuters) - Amazon confirmed 16,000 corporate job cuts on Wednesday, completing a plan for around 30 ...

U.S. crime has dropped sharply since the pandemic. Here’s where it stands.

Homicide rates have undergone the most striking change, with some of the nation’s 52 largest cities recording the fewest ...

The pandemic's hidden toll: Millions of chronic conditions left undiagnosed

When COVID hit, health care systems around the world were turned upside down. Hospitals cleared beds, routine appointments ...

The post-pandemic era has sent the high-end watch market into a slump that analysts say could last a decade

Industry experts told Business Insider that 2021-2022 was probably the top of the market, and luxury watch prices won't see a ...
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What 5 charts say about the pandemic’s impact on retail, 5 years later

The pandemic may have hit retail five years ago, but its impacts came in wave after relentless wave for months after that. Immediate, dramatic effects — including widespread staff furloughs and the ...
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The teaching profession never really recovered from the pandemic. A new book explains why, and what we can do about it.

When the coronavirus pandemic broke out in the spring of 2020, schools in the United States made a rapid, unprecedented shift to remote instruction amidst a global atmosphere of fear, hardship, ...

Birds at a college changed beak shapes during the pandemic. It might be a case of rapid evolution

Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might be a case of rapid evolution.
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Pandemic recovery in schools will be a ‘long slog,’ says sobering national report

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. Nearly five years after Covid-19 began, a ...
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Pandemic linked to lasting drops in diagnosis rates for major conditions

There has been a lasting and disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on diagnosis rates for conditions including ...
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Downtown parking garages were abandoned in the pandemic. Some are still struggling.

Earlier this week, the redemption period on a judicial foreclosure of a downtown Detroit parking garage at 200 Beaubien St. next to the Renaissance Center expired, one of the few times during the ...