In this Nov. 24, 2023, file photo, a Walmart store is shown on Black Friday, in Secaucus, New Jersey. (Bloomberg via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) In an exclusive and far-reaching interview with ABC News, John Furner, president and CEO of Walmart U.S., talked about the retail giant’s push to hire more non-college degree workers for high-paying corporate jobs at the company.Currently, 75% of Walmart’s salaried managers began as hourly associates. High-performing Walmart managers at the store’s Supercenters now have the ability to earn more than $400,000 a year, which includes a new stock grant rewards program. Some of those managers have college degrees, while others do not it is not required for the job.“While college is great for some, it’s not exactly the right answer for everyone,” Furner told ABC News.This year, Walmart says it has doubled the number of skills certificates it offers to help people move into higher-paying careers within the company, such as software engine
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) President Joe Biden on Wednesday needled rival Donald Trump, laying into the former president as he welcomed the North America s Building Trades Union s endorsement."You re the best in the world," Biden said while addressing the NABTU s legislative conference in Washington, D.C. "You know, you had my back in 2020 and because of you, I m standing here as president of the United States of America. … Because of you, in 2024 we re going to make Donald Trump a loser again! Are you ready?""So, it s either Scranton values or Mar-a-Lago values," Biden went on to say, drawing a contrast between his background and Trump s as he repeated an economic argument rolled out during campaign stops in Pennsylvania last week. "These are competing visions of the economy at the heart of this election."Polling shows that economic issues are top of mind for many voters in what is expected to be a close race, though surveys ha
Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesDate Night co-stars Tina Fey and Steve Carell will reunite for Fey s eight-episode Netflix comedy series called Four Seasons, ABC Audio has confirmed. The series is based on actor/director Alan Alda s 1981 film of the same name, which also starred Carol Burnett, Rita Moreno, Sandy Dennis and Len Cariou.Fey co-created and will star in the show, which centers on three married couples who vacation together every season and how the collective relationship is strained when one of the partners strays with a younger woman. The film was also adapted into a CBS TV show in 1984. Fey co-created the show with Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield, with whom she worked on her Emmy-winning NBC comedy 30 Rock. Fisher co-created Never Have I Ever, which ran for four seasons on Netflix, and Wigfield created Great News and Saved by the Bell for the streaming service.Emmy and Oscar nominee Carell previously
Robert Deyrail/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images(LONDON) An Iranian court sentenced outspoken rapper Toomaj Salehi to death after his arrest over songs that criticized the government, his lawyer said Wednesday."The primary court sentenced Toomaj Salehi to the harshest punishment, death, on the charge of corruption on Earth, " Salehi s lawyer, Amir Raesian, said in an interview with Iranian news outlet Shargh Daily.The sentence by the Islamic Republic Revolution Court of Isfahan contradicted an Iranian Supreme Court ruling that said Salehi s case qualified for amnesty, Raesian said. The lawyer criticized the "obvious legal conflicts" in the revolutionary court s decision. "We will definitely appeal this sentence," he added.Salehi, who has been arrested multiple times by Iranian forces, frequently called out the regime s corruption and suppression of dissent in his music and shamed the regime s apologists who "whitewash" those crimes. He is one of th