The new office return date for Google? Try 2022
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January is shaping up to be the new September for many major U.S. companies to summon workers back to long-deserted offices, as the COVID-19 Delta variant trips up employers eager to normalize their operations.
On Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced an extension of the tech giant's voluntary work-from-home policy from October 18 to January 10, 2022. In an email to employees, Pichai said that while tens of thousands of Googlers are being welcomed back to the company's offices on a voluntary basis, "In many parts of the world the pandemic continues to create uncertainty."
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it will seek to revoke a key rule put in place by the Biden administration that set limits on the amount of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change, emitted from fossil fuel-fired power plants.
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Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired "Good Vibrations," "California Girls" and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world's most influential recording artists, has died, his family said in a statement posted to his website and social media. He was 82.
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The European country of Kosovo has agreed to a Trump administration request to allow the U.S. to deport a small group of migrants to the landlocked Balkan nation who are not from there, U.S. and Kosovar officials told CBS News.
Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday he will travel to Israel later this month to address the Israel's parliament, known as the Knesset, in Jerusalem.
Phoenix — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a proposal that would have banned teaching antisemitism at the state's public K-12 schools, universities and colleges and exposed educators who violate the new rules to discipline and lawsuits.
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