Amazon.com Inc on Thursday informed staff at its U.S. warehouses and logistics sites that they must report being fully vaccinated by March 18 if they wish to receive paid leave due to COVID-19.

Congress approved a measure barring forced arbitration to address sexual assault and harassment claims in the workplace. An unlikely coalition of Republican and Democratic lawmakers passed the bill in a voice vote Thursday following its overwhelming approval by the House three days earlier. 

The White House is urging Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to use federal powers to break up the Freedom Convoy trucker demonstrations protesting a vaccine-or-quarantine mandate for cross-border drivers, according to reporting by The New York Post.

 A security guard working at the Yeltsin Centre gallery in Yekaterinburg, Russia is in trouble after he drew eyes on an avant-garde painting worth over $1 million dollars.

Two U.S. senators claim the Central Intelligence Agency is running a secret program aimed at scooping up massive amounts of data and has been shielding it from Congressional oversight, they said in a letter released on Friday.

On Tuesday, the pastor was preparing to speak to the thousands of truck drivers who are protesting Canada’s strike COVID-19 measures in support of their demonstration. Sources indicate that he was apprehended at his home.

President Biden signed an executive order on Friday to split $7 billion dollars in frozen Afghan assets between humanitarian relief for Afghanistan and payments to the families of victims of 9/11.