UPS anticipates a record-breaking returns season after the holidays
On the heels of a record-breaking holiday shopping season, United Parcel Service is anticipating a record number of shipped returns. UPS said Thursday that it expects to process 1.9 million return packages on Jan. 2, what the shipper calls “National Returns Day,” when it expects peak gift returns. That’s up 26% from a year ago. The returns would mark a…
UPS expects nearly 2 million package returns in a single day, and it reveals a dark truth about holiday shopping
Mark Lennihan/AP People are expected to return 1.9 million packages on January 2, the peak day for returns following the holiday season, UPS said on Thursday. That represents a 26% increase in returns over last year’s National Returns Day, according to UPS. These returns are expected to cost retailers millions of dollars in lost sales. …
Turmoil at memorial for man killed in Iran protests
GENEVA (Reuters) – Iranian protesters chanted political slogans under the eye of security forces during a memorial on Thursday for a man killed in demonstrations last month, videos on social media showed. The images, which could not be verified by Reuters, showed one woman shouting “Death to the dictator” as people around her ran in…
Red wolves court battle reignites as governor urges action
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The fight over the critically endangered red wolf has returned to court as North Carolina’s governor sought immediate help for the dozen or so remaining in the wild and federal biologists planned to transfer wolves into the recovery area for the first time in years. In late November, Gov. Roy Cooper…
Baltimore On Pace to Break Homicide Rate Record in 2019
Baltimore may see the highest homicide rate ever recorded in the city by the end of 2019, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Police had recorded 338 homicides as of Tuesday, four shy of the 342 seen in 2017 and 2015. The city saw 353 homicides in 1993, the most of any year on record.…
China Might Have Stolen The Secrets To Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense
Key point: If China can break into top-secret Israeli computers, they can break into America’s—and everybody else’s, too. A cybersecurity firm reports that Chinese hackers have stolen technical data for the Iron Dome rocket-defense system from Israeli computers. Maryland-based Cyber Engineering Services detected the cyber burglary, according to cybersecurity writer Brian Krebs. “Between Oct. 10, 2011…
$10,000 in a Coffee Cup: 8 Politicians Swept Up in N.J. Corruption Cases
One aspiring politician is accused of getting her bribe in a coffee cup chock-full of $100 bills. Another, a mayoral hopeful, of receiving his at his campaign headquarters in a bag stuffed with $10,000. There was also a councilman who accepted a cash-stuffed envelope from a man who explicitly asked for a “quid pro quo,”…
Quake strikes near Iran nuclear power plant
Tehran (AFP) – An earthquake struck Iran on Friday less than 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the country’s only nuclear power plant, monitors said. There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage. The US Geological Survey said the 5.1 magnitude quake struck 44 kilometres (27 miles) from the southwestern city of Borazjan and…
With Uighur comic, Japanese manga artist aims to highlight everday 'suffering'
By Hideto Sakai TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese artist whose manga comics about a Uighur woman went viral wants to use the simple power of her work to raise awareness of the “daily suffering” endured by the Chinese mostly Muslim minority, she told Reuters. With “What Has Happened to Me”, a manga comic that has…
El Salvador upholds sentence of ex-President Tony Saca
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Supreme Court upheld a 10-year prison sentence against ex-President Tony Saca for corruption on Thursday and confirmed that he must return some $260 million to the state. The ruling also upheld convictions against three former officials from his inner circle and three former presidential employees who are…