Employees at online home furnishings retailer Wayfair walked out to protest the company's decision to sell $200,000 worth of furniture to a government contractor that runs a detention center for migrant children in Texas. The protest triggered a broader backlash against the company, with some customers calling for a boycott. Several hundred people joined the protest at a plaza near the company's Boston headquarters, a mix of employees and people from outside the company.
The richest person in each of the 50 United States has been revealed, including many familiar faces and some less known. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ranks first overall and in Washington with more than $100billion, joined by the likes of Warren Buffett ($85billion) in Nebraska, Mark Zuckerberg ($71billion) in California, and Alice Walton ($50.1billion) in Texas. All together, the most well off in each state are worth $875billion, besting last year's top earners who netted a collective $832billion to set a new record.
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Demonstrators wave their smartphones during a rally ahead of the G20 summit, urging the international community to back their demands for the government to withdraw a the extradition bill in Hong Kong, China June 26, 2019. Thousands of people in Hong Kong joined an evening protest and marched to major foreign consulates urging leaders gathering for this week's G20 summit to back their demand to scrap a much criticized extradition bill. REUTERS/Thomas Peter