A thick brown haze from the Hughes Fire loomed over a Walmart store in California. Dramatic footage captured by Sura shows smoke engulfing Simi Valley on January 22. Sura said: 'Winds are blowing strong this direction,

A man armed with a knife and pepper spray assaulted an employee inside a Walmart store, then confronted police in a parking lot, California authorities reported. Officers tackled the man after he dropped the knife but refused to surrender in the incident at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20, Rohnert Park police said in a news release.

Walmart is the largest private employer in the United States with 1.6 million associates provides starting hourly pay well above the federal minimum wage.

A man who allegedly pepper-sprayed a Walmart employee in Rohnert Park on Monday was taken into custody after a standoff with a knife in the parking lot, according to the Department of Public Safety.

Walmart is offering pay raises and stock bonuses that will mean some managers can earn up to $600,000. This week, retail giant Walmart announced that about 440 managers are set to earn a pay raise that will bump some employees’ salaries well into the high-six-figure range—even up to $620,

Some top Walmart managers will now make as much as $620,000 annually as part of a broader pay raise from America’s biggest retail chain.

Reuters reviewed filings made to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and employment demographic reports for nine large companies that have scaled back or abandoned their diversity initiatives last year: Meta, Walmart, Amazon.com, Starbucks, Deere & Co, Ford, Boeing, McDonald's and Lowe's Companies.

"There is science, logic and reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.” - Edward Abbey

Some of the biggest brands in America, including Amazon, Meta, Walmart and McDonald’s, have recently changed or ended their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. But e.l.f. Beauty, a popular cosmetics brand,

Several major companies like Target, Walmart and McDonald’s have begun to roll back DEI programs in the wake of a Republican-driven effort to disband the push for workplace and school equality.

According to Target's 2023 workforce diversity report, the retailer's workforce comprised 56% female employees and 43% male employees. The racial and ethnic distribution was similarly balanced, with 56% of employees being people of color and 43% being white.

Michael Fanone, a former Washington, D.C., police officer who was attacked during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, cursed out Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the anti-government group the Oath Keepers, during an appearance Wednesday on CNN. As Fanone was appearing on the network to discuss President Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6…