At a town hall meeting in East Palestine, Ohio Thursday night, hundreds of residents had their first chance to directly confront the rail company responsible for the train derailment that took place in the town last month, and used the opportunity to share their outrage over Norfolk Southern’s failure to keep residents safe following its...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US president Joe Biden’s administration has approved its ninth arms sale package worth around $619 million to Taiwan, which the self-ruled island said will help “boost the combat readiness” of its air force. The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the State Department has made a “determination approving a poss...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – The US and the UK have congratulated Bola Tinubu on his victory in Nigeria’s Feb. 25 presidential election, despite lingering uncertainty over the win as the opposition plans to mount a legal challenge. “We call on all parties, candidates, and supporters to refrain from violence or inflammatory rhetoric at this critical tim...
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (AFP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday pressed Uzbekistan to expand rights and investigate abuses as it pursues nascent reforms, on a trip to woo Central Asia amid tensions with Russia. A day after joining counterparts from all five former Soviet republics in Central Asia in Kazakhstan, Blinken held talks...
U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to issue his first veto after two Democrats—Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana—partnered with the GOP on Wednesday to pass legislation that would block his administration’s rule allowing retirement plan managers to consider climate and other factors in investment decisions. T...
Building on a series of blows to Starbucks on Wednesday, a federal administrative law judge found the coffee giant “committed hundreds of unfair labor practices” at stores in and near Buffalo, New York, the origin of a national unionization wave. In a lengthy ruling, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge, Michael A. Rosas...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday announced plans to introduce legislation that would cap U.S. insulin prices at $20 per vial after Eli Lilly pledged to cut the list prices of its most commonly used insulin products by 70%. Sanders (I-Vt.), the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, said in a statement that “...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday announced plans to have the committee he chairs vote next week on whether to subpoena Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who so far has refused to provide testimony about the coffee chain’s federal labor law violations. Sanders (I-Vt.) and the 10 Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Health, Educa...
The Biden administration on Tuesday sued two corporations behind a petrochemical plant in Louisiana, arguing that the facility poses “unacceptably high cancer risks” to the low-income and predominantly Black residents of nearby communities and demanding significant cuts in toxic pollution. On behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protec...
Hundreds of people who were trapped, beaten, and wrongfully arrested by New York City police officers during a nonviolent 2020 racial justice protest in the Bronx will each receive $21,500 if a judge approves the terms of a settlement filed in federal court late Tuesday. Around 300 people were arrested, many of them brutally, on June […...
