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Amazon workers in India join Black Friday strike action for better wages and working conditions 11/29/2024 10:43am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Amazon staff in India have joined strike action calling for better wages and working conditions as the company prepares for one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. About 200 warehouse workers and delivery drivers rallied in the capital, New Delhi, under a ``Make Amazon Pa Cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought banana art for $6.2 million eats the fruit in Hong Kong 11/29/2024 08:53am • 许多朋友问我这根香蕉的味道如何。老实说，对于一根有如此故事的香蕉，味道自然和普通香蕉不一样。我品尝出了一种100年前大麦克香蕉的味道。 pic.twitter.com/ddo8pEjatx — H.E. Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) November 29, 2024 HONG KONG (AP Black Friday and Cyber Monday holiday gift ideas for stargazers 11/29/2024 06:33am • For my annual WTOP “Gift Ideas For Stargazers,” I thought I would get this year’s suggestions out to coincide with Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales to possibly help get the best deals for that special someone on your holiday gift list that loves the stars. Internet shopping and quick shi Customers at this Starbucks can sip coffee and observe a quiet North Korean village 11/29/2024 02:42am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Coffee drinkers can sip their beverages and view a quiet North Korean mountain village from a new Starbucks at a South Korean border observatory. Customers have to pass a military checkpoint before entering the observatory at Aegibong Peace Ecopark, which is less than a m Massachusetts lawmakers push for an effort to ban all tobacco sales over time 11/29/2024 12:16am • BOSTON (AP) — A handful of Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to persuade their colleagues to support a proposal that would make the state the first to adopt a ban meant to eliminate the use of tobacco products over time. Other locations have weighed similar “generational tobacco bans,” which Black Friday and Cyber Monday are all one long block of sales now, lasting more than a day (but not forever) 11/29/2024 12:00am • Black Friday is traditionally the day a lot of people begin their holiday shopping, thanks to the encouragement of sales and deals on a plethora of different items. But truth be told, it’s been Black Friday for a while now. For most retailers, it’s been Black Friday for at least this entire w What to know about the Amazon strike planned for Black Friday 11/28/2024 10:54pm • Workers for the largest online retailer in the world are planning to go on strike during one of the busiest shopping weekends of the holiday season. Amazon employees are preparing to protest in 20 countries, including in major cities in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and Br Displaced families in Lebanon who return home are faced with piles of rubble 11/28/2024 06:06pm • HANOUIYEH, Lebanon (AP) — During their 37 years of marriage, Mariam Kourani and her husband ran a butcher shop in southern Lebanon, started a business selling serving containers and opened a small restaurant. An Israeli airstrike in late September destroyed it all. Walking through the rubble of wh Thanksgiving afternoon is drier ahead of cold holiday weekend in DC area 11/28/2024 04:50pm • Thanksgiving has arrived, but you may not feel so grateful after this morning's wet weather and cooling temps. Thankfully this afternoon featured some sunshine and drier conditions ahead of a cold front bringing gusty winds into the region, according to WTOP Meteorologist Mike Stinneford. Wind Day 2 of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire sees Israeli airstrike on Lebanon and scattered attacks 11/28/2024 03:55pm • BEIRUT (AP) — Israel on Thursday carried out its first airstrike on Lebanon since a truce with Hezbollah announced this week, saying it targeted the militant group's activity at a rocket storage facility in southern Lebanon that breached the ceasefire. Lebanese authorities reported scattered inci Thousands of displaced Lebanese return from Syria as ceasefire with Israel holds 11/28/2024 01:42pm • QUSAIR, Syria (AP) — Thousands of people made the crossing back into Lebanon from Syria on the second day of a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, after nearly 14 months of fighting. At the Jousieh border crossing in the Qusair area of Syria’s Homs province, on Lebanon’s northeastern borde Why retailers still see Black Friday as the high point of the holiday shopping season 11/28/2024 12:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — After weeks of plugging increasingly inviting discounts, retailers in the United States and several other countries are preparing for prime time: Black Friday, the bargain bonanza that still reigns as the unofficial kickoff of the holiday shopping season even if it's lost some lust 10 ways to avoid holiday debt 11/28/2024 06:26am • For many people, the winter holiday season is an opportunity to indulge, and not just on special treats. A lot of extra shopping occurs during this time, on everything from parties to gifts. It all adds up, and this year people plan to spend more than ever. According to a 2024 KPMG Consumer Pulse Black Friday: What time do stores open? 11/28/2024 06:03am • Black Friday has become something of an anachronism in the e-commerce era. The day after Thanksgiving marks the official start of the holiday shopping season, but retailers already have spent weeks flooding their websites and customers' email inboxes with early Black Friday offers. If history is an Things to do in the DC area: Holiday restaurant and bar pop-ups, DC Cocktail Week … and more! 11/28/2024 05:10am • Don't be a Grinch. Get in the holiday spirit this year by imbibing on themed cocktails. Prepare to sip and jingle all the way with the following festive D.C.-area pop-ups. Here are the local restaurant and holiday pop-ups that WTOP has curated that you should check out. Check back every Th