Twitter workers reportedly quit by the hundreds Thursday after refusing to agree to billionaire CEO Elon Musk’s demand that they work longer hours as part of his self-described “extremely hardcore” plan to overhaul the social media platform. As a result, the company that Musk purchased for $44 billion just weeks ago is in cha...
Dozens of U.S. House Democrats on Thursday sent a letter to the party’s congressional leaders, calling on them to push for the reinstatement of the expanded Child Tax Credit in a year-end compromise tax package—and to use Republicans’ demand for corporate tax breaks as a bargaining chip to secure much-needed aid for families across...
Among the nation’s leading voices in the push for Medicare for All, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday confirmed his desire to be the next chair of the committee best positioned to make the hope of universal healthcare a reality in the United States. “Sen. Sanders intends to seek the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Health, [&h...
A model prosecution memorandum published Thursday by a team of U.S. legal experts lays out potential charges against Donald Trump related to the former Republican president and 2024 presidential candidate’s handling of classified government documents since he left office last year. The memo, which is based on publicly available informati...
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol has created a subcommittee to deal with “outstanding issues,” including potential criminal referrals to the Department of Justice, the panel’s chair confirmed Thursday. Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told journalists at the Capitol that he e...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that she plans to continue representing her Bay Area constituents for the remainder of her two-year term but will not seek re-election to a congressional leadership post. “No matter what title you all, my colleagues, have bestowed upon me—speaker, leader, whip—there is no greater official hon...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia and the US will hold meetings in Egypt’s capital Cairo from Nov. 29 to Dec. 6 to iron out differences related to the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov. Nothing is off the table for Russia, Ryabkov told local news channel RTVI. However, […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Islamophobia in the US and Europe has triggered hatred against Muslims in other parts of the world, including the Asia Pacific region, according to a leading academic. “It is legitimate today to talk about the globalization of Islamophobia,” John Louis Esposito, a professor of international affairs and Islamic...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has sanctioned three senior officials and two “interrogator” journalists who work with Iran’s state broadcaster, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). According to the US, the IRIB has been “a critical tool in the Iranian government’s mass suppression and censorship campaign ag...
Thousands of unionized Starbucks workers at more than 100 locations across the United States are walking off the job Thursday to protest the coffee giant’s refusal to engage in good-faith negotiations with stores that have voted to organize. Workers United, the union representing thousands of Starbucks employees, dubbed the nationwide da...