More than half a dozen managers at Amazon’s JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island were abruptly fired Thursday, a month after workers at the warehouse made history by overwhelmingly voting in favor of unionizing. The company claimed the terminations were part of an “organizational change,” but The New York Times reported t...
Supporters of Federal Communications Commission nominee Gigi Sohn and other critics of the telecommunications industry’s efforts to thwart her U.S. Senate confirmation this week called out not only those behind the smear campaign but also Democratic leaders. The digital rights group Fight for the Future tweeted late Thursday that Preside...
Hundreds of cops across the United States have been taught by individuals who espouse far-right extremist views, according to a new investigation that was published Friday to sound the alarm on a burgeoning and unregulated private training industry. Reuters identified five law enforcement trainers who have been hired by police and sheriffsR...
WASHINGTON (AA): US President Joe Biden has announced that Karine Jean-Pierre will be the first African-American woman to serve as the White House’s chief spokesperson. Jean-Pierre will replace outgoing spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who is leaving the White House on May 13, the executive mansion announced in a statement. Jean-Pierre previously ...
The Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical giant Moderna disclosed in a financial filing this week that it received another $300 million in U.S. government funding for coronavirus vaccine development in March even as the company hoarded its technology from the world—and attempted to undermine a critical vaccine project in South Africa. In its quar...
Louisiana Republicans on Wednesday advanced legislation that criminalizes abortion as homicide, allowing for the prosecution of both the pregnant person and those who assist them. Introduced in March by Rep. Danny McCormick (R-Oil City), House Bill 813 advanced out of committee in a 7-2 vote Wednesday, just days after a leaked U.S. Supreme Cou...
Two right-wing Democrats, Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Mark Kelly of Arizona, crossed the aisle Wednesday to help Republicans approve a motion aimed at barring President Joe Biden from declaring a climate emergency, a step that green groups have been pressuring him to take since his first day in office. The nonbinding motion, sponsor...
“Devastating.” “Tragic.” “Unthinkable.” Those were some of the reactions Wednesday after NBC News reported that the number of deaths from Covid-19 in the United States has surpassed a million, less than a quarter of the way through the third year of the pandemic. While some case counters—such as Johns Hopkin...
Days after rights advocates warned that the U.S. Supreme Court’s expected overruling of Roe v. Wade portends rollbacks of numerous rights for people in the U.S., Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said he wants to challenge a 40-year-old ruling that affirmed states must offer free public education to all children. In a radio interview ...
Associations representing the telecommunications industry on Wednesday dropped their legal fight to block California’s “gold standard” net neutrality law following a string of losses in federal courts. The stipulation of dismissal was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, bringing to an end ...
