New Home Sales Rise, Housing Recovery Still On Track

The engineers—four women and four men—claim Musk ordered their firing in 2022 after they circulated a letter calling the billionaire a ‘distraction and embarrassment’ and urging executives to disavow sexually charged comments he had made on social media. Rocket maker SpaceX and its CEO Elon Musk were sued on Wednesday by eight engineers who say they were illegally fired for raising concerns about alleged sexual harassment and discrimination against women.

Senior Judge Robert Hinkle said the state went too far when it barred transgender minors from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments with their parents’ permission. A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults, calling the statute unconstitutional.

For those suffering under the solitude of work, you’re not alone. As technology further seeps its way into the workplace, from Zoom meetings to AI chat systems, it’s easy to feel lonely. For those suffering under the solitude of work, you’re not alone: A new Gallup study suggests that employee loneliness is on the rise.

Recent progress has been slow, and Fed officials now project a slightly higher end-of-year inflation rate of 2.6% versus the 2.4% anticipated as of March. The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday and pushed out the start of rate cuts to perhaps as late as December, with officials projecting only a single quarter-percentage-point reduction for the year amid rising estimates for what it will take to keep inflation in check.

The growth of YouTube TV, the company’s subscription streaming service, increases Google’s ‘prospects for living room dominance,’ the groups said. Tech and competition watchdog groups have called on the U. S. Department of Justice to probe YouTube, saying the video-streaming platform could enable Google and its parent company, Alphabet, to dominate home entertainment.

Amazon claims that it fired Bryson over his conduct at the protest and not because of his support for the union. A U. S. appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a judge’s order that required Amazon.com to refrain from firing union supporters amid a nationwide organizing campaign at its warehouses.