Economic and climate justice groups on Tuesday applauded as U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, with advocates hailing the $740 billion investment in climate action, corporate tax reform, and healthcare as “landmark legislation” while they pledged to continue working to secure more ambitious reform...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iran’s conservative and reformist media is divided over its reaction to Friday’s attack on Salman Rushdie- an Indian-born American-British novelist. Rushdie was stabbed multiple times by 24-year-old Hadi Matar in New York just as he was about to present his lecture on stage. Soon after the attack, Iran was pus...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has held direct talks with the Syrian regime in an effort to secure the release of detained American journalist Austin Tice, the State Department announced on Monday. Tice has been held in captivity in Syria for 10 years, and State Department spokesman Ned Price said Washington has “directly engaged Syrian ...
After months of working in what they say are unsafe weather conditions for wages that leave them struggling to afford basic necessities, more than 150 workers at Amazon’s air freight hub in Southern California walked out mid-shift on Monday to demand fair treatment by the trillion-dollar company. As The Washington Post reported, the walk...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – In its first reaction since the assassination bid on controversial writer Salman Rushdie, Iran said the writer-provocateur and his supporters are to blame for the attack. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani, addressing a weekly press conference in Tehran, refuted any link between the attack on Rushdie an...
With President Joe Biden set to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law on Tuesday, progressive members of Congress are increasingly speaking out against a side agreement that Democratic leaders reached with Sen. Joe Manchin in order to secure final passage of the $740 billion climate, tax, and healthcare measure. The side deal focuses prima...
Starbucks management on Monday demanded a temporary suspension of all mail-in union elections at its U.S. stores, alleging that National Labor Relations Board personnel and union officials “secretly colluded” to influence the outcome of a contest at a shop in Overland Park, Kansas. Starbucks Workers United, the campaign working to ...
As progressive lawmakers renewed calls for protecting Social Security from GOP attacks, Data for Progress on Monday pointed to polling that shows about 80% of U.S. voters across partisan divides support boosting benefits. As a recent Social Security Administration report explains, “The Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI)...
Tate Reeves, Mississippi’s Republican governor, faced intense criticism Monday as the poorest U.S. state ended participation in a federal rent assistance program that helped shield tens of thousands of people facing eviction during the economic upheaval of the Covid-19 pandemic. Invoking former U.S. President Ronald Reagan—whose administ...
A study published Monday in the journal Nature Food projects that a full-scale nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia would spark a catastrophic global famine, with potentially as many as five billion people dying of starvation in the years immediately after the war’s conclusion. Led by climate scientists at Rutgers Univer...