The New York Times
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Walt Bogdanich
– Nov 27, 2020, 2:50 PM
When Purdue Pharma agreed last month to plead guilty to criminal charges involving OxyContin, the Justice Department noted the role an unidentified consulting company had played in driving sales of the addictive painkiller even as public outrage…
The New York Times
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Nathaniel Popper
– Nov 27, 2020, 2:00 AM
SAN FRANCISCO — One by one, they left. Some quit. Others were fired. All were Black. The 15 people worked at Coinbase, the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency start-up, where they represented roughly three-quarters of the Black employees at…
Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died. He was 46. Hsieh's family confirmed his death tonight in a text message…
The New York Times
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Deborah Solomon
– Nov 27, 2020, 9:48 AM
At first it sounded like a plot twist from a science-fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. A tall, silvery slice of metal, about 10 feet high with an aura of strangeness about it, is spotted in the red-rock canyons of the Utah desert. State employees…
The New York Times
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Steven Lee Myers
– Nov 27, 2020, 8:40 PM
Just in time for its National Day in October, China completed construction of a new village high in the mountains where the Chinese region of Tibet meets the kingdom of Bhutan. A hundred people moved into two dozen new homes beside the Torsa River…
