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In November of 2022, a twenty-three-year-old woman named Shania Arms posted a video on TikTok. The footage shows her at a photo shoot, wearing jean cutoffs, black heels, and a crown of white flowers, lounging under palm trees. A building behind her with tall, rounded windows could be a hotel. But next to her, in eve...

When Tiffany Hammond was growing up in Texas, in the nineteen-nineties, other children teased her for how she spoke: she talked too softly, she talked in a monotone, she paused too long between words, she didn’t talk enough, she talked to herself. “Something’s wrong with her head,” kids would say. She was always fid...

Amazon's healthcare units, including One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy, are conducting fresh layoffs as part of a broader cost-cutting campaign, Business Insider has learned.The layoffs will impact "few hundred roles," Amazon's spokesperson confirmed in an email to BI.One person said roughly 115 positions may be elimi...