👷‍♀️ Amazon is likely to run out of prospective workers for its US warehouses by the year 2024, according to an internal memo that was leaked. The memo contained internal research from 2021 that predicted a looming labor crisis for the e-commerce giant that would hit some areas faster than others.

Automation is something that Amazon has invested heavily in already by acquiring Kiva Systems in 2012. But Amazon’s warehouse robots aren’t capable of handling advanced fulfillment tasks that can only be performed by a human worker.

The tech giant is the second-largest private employer in the US, and is the largest private employer in a number of US states and cities. The company announced plans to hire 125,000 workers last fall.

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📉 Bitcoin tumbled below $20,000 on Saturday to its lowest level since the end of 2020. The price of the largest cryptocurrency has been sliding in recent weeks and fell as low as $18,739, according to CoinDesk.

Bitcoin has now fallen more than 70% since hitting a record high of almost $69,000 in November last year against a backdrop of soaring inflation, rising interest rates and a looming ecession that has prompted some investors sell their crypto holdings.

Crypto exchange platforms Coinbase and BlockFi have laid off about 20% of their workforces amid the collapse of crypto prices.

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🍏✊ The Apple store in Towson, Maryland, has become the first unionized Apple store in the US.

The votes (65 in favor and 33 opposed, out of around 110 eligible employees) still need to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Apple will then need to bargain with the new union over working conditions.

🇺🇸🦠❗️US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has contracted the coronavirus. He is asymptomatic and has not been in close contact with US President Joe Biden, according to National Security Council (NSC) Spokesperson Adrienne Watson.

🚲 After falling off his bike in Delaware on Saturday, US President Joe Biden has hopped three times on his way from a church service to show bystanders he is doing just fine.

“Why are you killing people in Donetsk?”: A Donbass resident sends an emotional plea to the US and Ukraine.

“This was hell”: German journalist Alina Lipp recalls the experience of coming under shelling in Mariupol during her last visit there during fighting, and describes how the port city has been transformed since Ukrainian troops left.

❗️EU could fall apart before Ukraine joins, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev says

Russian sappers clear mines from roads and farmland in the settlements of the Kharkov region (Russian MoD video)

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⚡⚡Russian MoD briefing:

▪The Metiolkino settlement near Severodonetsk in the LPR has been liberated

▪Some units of the Ukrainian military are leaving the combat zone because of low morale, lack of ammunition and support

▪More than 50 generals and officers of the Ukrainian military (several of them were from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) have been eliminated with sea-based Kalibr rockets, while at a work meeting in a control point in Dnepropetrovsk region

▪More than 400 Ukrainian neo-Nazis have been killed as a result of strikes in the past 24 hours

▪More than 100 Ukrainian servicemen in the Dnepropetrovsk region have been destroyed by a high-precision missile strike

▪Up to 200 Ukrainian militants, including several foreign mercenaries, have been eliminated after a strike at the Selidovo settlement in the DPR

▪Russia's Kalibr missiles have hit 10 155mm M777 howitzers supplied to Ukraine by the West and up to 20 armoured vehicles on the territory of the plant in Nikolaev

▪Two Ukrainian Uragan launchers have been destroyed on the territory of the Kharkov Tank Repair Plant with an Iskander strike

▪A Ukrainian Su-25 has been shot down in the Nikolaev region, as well as eight Ukrainian UAVs

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❗Russian MoD: Because of large losses, the Ukrainian command is having to use unprepared personnel who lack the necessary skills in handling weapons and military equipment. Two Su-25 jets of the Ukrainian Air Force have attacked the positions of their own units in the area of the village of Shirokoye, Dnepropetrovsk region

🇺🇸🏕🌊 The southern part of the Yellowstone National Park will be reopened for visitors on Wednesday after "unprecedented" amounts of rainfall caused severe flooding and historic water levels, with rockslides and mudslides damaging roads and bridges, the National Park Service (NPS) says.

⚡Video of the Kalibr missile launch at the control point in Dnepropetrovsk region, as well as at the plant in Nikolaev housing the American M777 howitzers

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Humanitarian aid from Russia's Saint-Petersburg has been delivered to the LPR's Pervomaisk

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❗US economy will slow down, but recession does not look inevitable - Treasury