The law’s passage followed intense lobbying pressure by the Culinary Union, the influential labor group that represents more than 60,000 hospitality workers in Las Vegas and Reno. Geoconda Argüello-Kline, the group’s secretary-treasurer, told me that the law reflected a moral responsibility toward the community by the hospitality industry. While some major business groups withdrew their […]
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OSHA’s most recent ruling on heat exposure, during the Trump administration, was not encouraging. In February 2019, OSHA vacated an administrative law judge’s ruling against a roofing company that employed a 60-year-old man who died of heat stroke. That case was complicated by the man’s preexisting medical conditions (hepatitis C and congestive heart failure) and an outdoor […]
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The lawsuit is also unusual in other ways. Stilley spent almost an entire page making unrelated assertions about Braid and his beliefs. The complaint claims that Braid “is kind and patient and helpful toward bastards, but ideologically opposed to forcing any woman to produce another bastard against her own free will,” that he “has some […]
Read MoreThere’s an obvious way out for Democrats struggling to cobble together the votes for the more liberal reconciliation bill that is part of their two-pronged approach to infrastructure: come together and pass what they can, sending it to President Biden’s desk. It will be a win for the president, a sign the party can govern […]
Read MoreIf you move in upper middle class circles, you know the conversation: A friend or relative comes back from sojourn in Europe with endless critiques of American life. The food in Italy, the trains in Germany, the architecture in Czechia — everything American pales in comparison. Some of these comparisons are merely annoying, like the […]
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The House voted along party lines on Tuesday night to fund the government until early December and suspend the federal debt limit through 2022. The bill now heads to the Senate, where some Republicans have already said they oppose the measure. The bill was passed with a vote of 220-211, and also provides disaster relief […]
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On Tuesday, Biden delivered his first address to the United Nations; its unstated aim was to reassure increasingly dubious allies and continue to make the argument he made early in his presidency: “America is back.” For the president, his maiden address before the international body was framed by a pair of foreign policy crises—the chaotic, […]
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However, this will be a hassle, to put it mildly. If Democrats decide to do a new reconciliation bill—that is, separate from the reconciliation bill they are currently writing, which includes a flock of Democratic agenda items (more on that later)—that will involve several time-consuming procedural steps, including two vote-a-ramas: marathon amendment voting sessions that […]
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In 2016, Meicen Sun came to a profound realization: “The control of digital information will lie at the heart of all the big questions and big contentions in politics.” A graduate student in her final year of study who is specializing in international security and the political economy of technology, Sun vividly recalls the emergence […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Tamika Mallory on Instagram Live on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. | Source: Instagram / Instagram.com/tamikadmallory Tamika Mallory delivered a veritable sermon Tuesday morning responding to the devastating images of Border Patrol agents appearing to use whips from horseback in order to corral Haitian migrants attempting to cross into the U.S. from Mexico. […]
Read MorePresident Biden’s terrible August has given way to a miserable September. The Des Moines Register reports today that just 31 percent of Iowans approve of his job performance, down from a high of 47 percent in March. Iowa isn’t quite the swing state it used to be — its voters supported Donald Trump the last […]
Read MoreHow close did former President Donald Trump and senior members of his administration come to initiating an actual coup last January? If the recently published memo by John Eastman — director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and Trump’s attorney in a major election lawsuit — […]
Read MoreViolent crime is on the rise. Not everywhere and not evenly: The problem is concentrated in particular neighborhoods of particular cities, and many categories of crime show declines even as gun offenses and murder have surged. But there’s anxiety on the streets that hasn’t been felt in years or decades. Just last weekend, Chicago saw 56 […]
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Araud: Well, you know, now there is no assistant secretary for European affairs. There is no ambassador to Paris. There is no ambassador to NATO. So I think that’s been playing a role. As usual, the State Department is implying that the thing was committed by a small group at the White House. But obviously […]
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It may be hard to remember but six months ago, Democrats had a kind of super momentum. The euphoria of the early days of a new president, plus a fierce urgency to do what was necessary to slow the pandemic brought Congressional Democrats together to pass a sweeping, $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill, covering everything […]
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It’s unclear exactly how these religious exemptions—and all the complexities that come with them—will unfold in the courts. Laws vary from state to state, and even the federal government is playing catch-up. “An agency may be required to provide a reasonable accommodation to employees who communicate to the agency that they are not vaccinated against […]
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Lawyers for former President Donald Trump labored until the end to overturn President Biden’s win, and that included making their case to two Republican senators, Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Mike Lee (Utah), in the days before Congress certified the results Jan. 6, according to Peril, the new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. Graham […]
Read MoreBarring some unforeseen catastrophe, the perceived success of the Biden administration’s first term will likely depend on two things: if Democrats can pass the reconciliation bill before the Senate, which contains basically all of President Biden’s policy agenda, and whether they can raise the debt ceiling to stave off global economic collapse. Members of Biden’s […]
Read MoreEarly coverage of the new defense pact between the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia (AUKUS) has focused on the anger of the French government at losing its deal to sell diesel-powered submarines to Canberra. That’s understandable. Paris has been loudly protesting Australia’s decision to break its French deal and purchase nuclear-powered subs from the […]
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Federal prosecutors have charged two longtime Republican operatives with helping a Russian national illegally contribute $25,000 to former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, keeping another $75,000 for themselves, according to an indictment unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The two men, Jesse Benton, 43, and Doug Weld, 75, pleaded not guilty to […]
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Un agente fronterizo a caballo agarra a un migrante en Texas. La Casa Blanca consideró las escenas como “terribles”. Los videos e imágenes de varios agentes fronterizos de Estados Unidos a caballo persiguiendo y cargando contra migrantes con un aparente cordón cerca del río Grande, en una zona aledaña al pequeño municipio de Del Río, […]
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Nueva York, 20 sep (EFE).- La “crisis de los submarinos” que enfrenta a Francia con EE.UU. y Australia —de donde París retiró a sus embajadores— “no es un asunto bilateral francés, sino que afecta al conjunto de la Unión”, dijo hoy Josep Borrell, Alto Representante de la política exterior europea. Tras una reunión informal del […]
Read MoreKigali, 20 sep (EFE).- Un tribunal ruandés condenó hoy a 25 años de cárcel a Paul Rusesabagina, el exgerente que inspiró el filme “Hotel Ruanda” sobre el genocidio de 1994 en este país africano, por delitos de terrorismo, aunque su familia y organizaciones pro derechos humanos cuestionaron la imparcialidad del juicio. La Sala del Tribunal […]
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Washington, 20 sep (EFE).- El Gobierno del presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, confirmó este lunes su objetivo de acoger a un máximo de 125.000 refugiados de todo el mundo en el año fiscal 2022, que comienza el próximo 1 de octubre. El Departamento de Estado de EE.UU. indicó en un comunicado que ha informado […]
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Asunción, 20 sep (EFE).-La estatal eléctrica de Paraguay retiró este lunes más del 50 % de la energía generada por la represa de Yacyretá, la primera vez que se alcanza ese nivel en los 26 años de producción de la hidroeléctrica, compartida con Argentina. La dirección paraguaya de la Binacional informó que el operativo se […]
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Washington, 20 sep (EFE News).- El presidente de Colombia, Iván Duque, vaticinó este lunes en Washington que habrá más migración venezolana si no se pone fin a la “dictadura” de Nicolás Maduro, a quien volvió a considerar el “equivalente” latinoamericano del autoritario exmandatario serbio Slobodan Milosevic (1941-2006). “A medida que continúe la dictadura en Venezuela, […]
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Captura Tras la durísima carta de la vicepresidente Cristina Kirchner al presidente Alberto Fernández luego de la derrota en las PASO, el Gobierno nacional se vio impactado y varios ministros presentaron su renuncia. Jorge Lanata dio su opinión al respecto en PPT Box (eltrece) y planteó en qué condiciones quedaron las cosas dentro del Frente […]
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In the early days of President Biden’s tenure, not too long after the Jan. 6 Captiol riot, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) attended a meeting in the Oval Office alongside a group of leading Senate Democrats — one in which he almost “immediately raised the stakes,” Jewish Insider writes per Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s upcoming […]
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A U.S. military drone strike in August led to the death of 7 children and other Afghan civilians. A white Toyota was seen loading containers into a truck, and the drones followed the vehicle, that the US suspected was being driven by a terrorist, and the strike was launched. According to CBS, the intention was to target ISIS […]
Read MorePresident Biden’s decision to deport the Haitian migrants surging over America’s southern border is needlessly cruel. It’s also not what he promised to do. Biden campaigned pledging to create a “fair and humane” immigration system that would “preserve the dignity of immigrant families, refugees, and asylum-seekers.” Instead, he’ll send desperate Haitians back to their home country, despite it […]
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Former President Donald Trump’s “big lie” — constructed with unfounded and baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election — has “metastasized” beyond the presidency and begun infecting lower-level Republican campaigns ahead of midterms, argues Politico. In fact, even “rational” and “principled” individuals are being motivated to cry fraud because “that is the ante for […]
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