Tag: Shutdowns (Institutional)

Final Campaign Week in Iowa, and a Rare Moon Mission

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With Shutdown Looming, House and Senate Leaders Agree on Spending Levels

Senate and House leaders announced on Sunday that they had struck an overarching agreement on 2024 government funding, but it was not clear whether they would be able to cement the deal and pass it into law in time to avert a partial government shutdown in less than two weeks. After weeks of negotiations and […]

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Barbara Lynch Has Closed Most of Her Boston Restaurants

The Boston chef Barbara Lynch, whom more than 20 employees accused of multiple forms of workplace abuse in a New York Times report last year, announced Friday that most of her restaurants had closed at the end of 2023. Those include her fine-dining restaurant Menton, one of the city’s most prestigious destinations since it opened […]

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LaPierre, Longtime N.R.A. Leader, Faces Trial That Could End His Reign

Ms. James seeks to use her regulatory authority over nonprofit groups to impose a range of financial penalties against the defendants and to remove Mr. LaPierre; any money recovered would flow back to the N.R.A. Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Tuesday before State Supreme Court Justice Joel M. Cohen. The trial is expected […]

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The Eugene Weekly Halts Publication After Employee’s Embezzlement

A weekly newspaper in Oregon abruptly stopped publishing and laid off all of its workers after an employee embezzled tens of thousands of dollars and left months of bills unpaid, its editor said. The newspaper, The Eugene Weekly, announced on Thursday that it would stop printing after it discovered financial problems, including money not being […]

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SmileDirectClub Shuts Down, Months After Filing for Bankruptcy

SmileDirectClub, a telehealth company that sold teeth-straightening devices through the mail and faced criticism from medical groups, said on Friday that it had shut down. The company, founded in 2014, sold teeth aligners online and in its shops for $1,850. It marketed them as a faster, cheaper alternative to braces. SmileDirectClub’s initial public offering in […]

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House Censures Jamaal Bowman for False Fire Alarm

The Republican-led House on Thursday formally rebuked Representative Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, for setting off a false fire alarm in a House office building in September, the latest in a series of partisan reprisals using a once-rare form of congressional punishment. The censure resolution, which was introduced by Representative Lisa McClain, Republican of […]

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From Unicorns to Zombies: Tech Start-Ups Run Out of Time and Money

WeWork raised more than $11 billion in funding as a private company. Olive AI, a health care start-up, gathered $852 million. Convoy, a freight start-up, raised $900 million. And Veev, a home construction start-up, amassed $647 million. In the last six weeks, they all filed for bankruptcy or shut down. They are the most recent […]

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Jezebel to Be Resurrected by Paste Magazine

Jezebel, the famed feminist website, is set to return less than a month after it was shuttered. Paste Magazine, a music and culture outlet, acquired Jezebel on Tuesday and planned to start publishing on the site again as soon as Wednesday, said Josh Jackson, a co-founder and the editor in chief of Paste. “The idea […]

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Portland Teachers’ Strike Ends After More Than Three Weeks

The News The union representing teachers, counselors and other school employees in Portland, Ore., reached a tentative deal with the city’s public school district on Sunday, ending a strike that has kept nearly 45,000 students out of classes for more than three weeks in Oregon’s largest district. Background: The fight was over pay, class sizes […]

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Portland Teachers’ Strike Ends After More Than Three Weeks

The News The union representing teachers, counselors and other school employees in Portland, Ore., reached a tentative deal with the city’s public school district on Sunday, ending a strike that has kept nearly 45,000 students out of classes for more than three weeks in Oregon’s largest district. Background: The fight was over pay, class sizes […]

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The New Speaker Avoided a Shutdown. Can He Avoid Being Ousted?

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Why We Can Expect More Chaos in the House

Compared to a Republican representative allegedly receiving “a clean shot to the kidneys” from another representative this week, the House passing a plan to avert a government shutdown and keep federal funding flowing into early 2024 seemed almost anti-climactic. But we shouldn’t lose sight of how annual efforts to pass spending bills have changed. They […]

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Goodbye, Jezebel. Hello, Feminist Content Creators?

It’s also galling to some to hear that websites like that can’t make money, even as they see constant reminders of how much certain forms of feminism sell. “Barbie,” which pulled in more than $1 billion at the box office, featured patriarchy as its villain. “The ‘Barbie’ movie wouldn’t exist without feminist blogs,” said Anna […]

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G.M.’s New Contract With U.A.W. Faces Surprisingly Stiff Opposition

A United Automobile Workers union vote on a tentative contract agreement with General Motors that provides record wage increases has run into unexpectedly strong resistance from veteran workers. Voting at most union locals has been completed and the final result, due as early as Thursday evening, will very likely be decided by a narrow margin. […]

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Analysis: To Avoid a Government Shutdown, Unyielding Mike Johnson Yields

Just weeks into his new job, Speaker Mike Johnson has already learned a valuable, if painful, lesson: Being an uncompromising conservative hard-liner is much easier from the backbenches of the House than it is from the leadership suites. The stopgap spending bill he pushed through the House on Tuesday with overwhelming support from Democrats over […]

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With I-10 Closed by Fire Damage, Los Angeles Drivers Find Ways to Cope

In a city of sprawl, the 10 freeway is a main character, running across the belly of Los Angeles and offering a straight shot from downtown to the Pacific Ocean — with a hazy glimpse of the Hollywood sign along the way. It also serves as a central artery for commuters making their way to […]

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Democrats Signal Openness to Plan to Avert Shutdown as Republicans Balk

Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposal to avert a government shutdown at the end of the week ran into increasing opposition on Monday from hard-line Republicans. But with Democratic opposition softening, it appeared the plan could be headed toward bipartisan approval within days. The shifting alliances came as the House planned to take its first action on […]

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Johnson Pitches Bill to Avert Government Shutdown That Faces an Uncertain Fate

Speaker Mike Johnson on Saturday pitched House Republicans on a convoluted plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of next week, proposing a bill that would temporarily extend funding for some federal agencies until late January and for others through early February. The measure faces an uncertain fate in Congress. Many conservative House […]

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House Republicans Clash Over Spending Days Ahead of Shutdown Deadline

At odds with one another on spending, House Republicans abruptly scrapped their legislative work on Thursday and left Washington with little progress toward funding the government and no plan to avert a shutdown next week. Speaker Mike Johnson, just two weeks into the job, had yet to give any public indication about his plan to […]

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Beth Israel Hospital May Close Next Year

One of the last remaining hospitals serving Lower Manhattan may well close next year, despite opposition from local officials and health activists who say the lessons of the pandemic are going unheeded. Mount Sinai Health System asked state officials last week to approve a plan to close Mount Sinai Beth Israel, a major provider of […]

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Trump’s Extremists Are Now In Charge of the House

The three-week battle to choose a House speaker may be over, yet the fallout for the United States and its reputation as a sound government and a beacon of democracy will be long-lasting and profound. The Republicans in the House unanimously voted for a man who made it his mission to try to overturn the […]

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Where Mike Johnson Stands on Key Issues: Ukraine, LGBTQ Rights and More

Speaker Mike Johnson, the little-known congressman from Louisiana who won the gavel on Wednesday, is deeply conservative on both fiscal and social issues, reflecting the G.O.P.’s sharp lurch to the right. Mr. Johnson, a lawyer, also played a leading role in former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, helping to push […]

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State Dinner to Bring Together Biden, Australia’s Leader and the B-52s

Five months ago, President Biden canceled a trip to Australia because the United States was on the brink of defaulting on its debt, and it seemed like a bad time to leave town. Then he extended an invitation to Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia, for a state visit in Washington — a redo […]

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For Bill Ford, ‘Every Negotiation Is a Roller Coaster’

As a 25-year-old junior executive at the car company that bears his last name, William Clay Ford Jr. had a bracing introduction to labor negotiations when a union official demanded that he stand up and vouch that he was made of the same stuff as his great-grandfather Henry Ford. Mr. Ford, now the company’s executive […]

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At Egypt-Gaza Border, Confusion and Frustration Reign

Before dawn on Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem sent an email to Americans trapped in Gaza, suggesting they head for the border with Egypt and offering the prospect of escape. It was hardly a promise, though. A weekend of diplomatic talks to open the Egyptian-Gazan border has so far yielded little but confusion, even […]

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Jordan Activates Right-Wing Campaign in Push to Win Speakership

Representative Jim Jordan and his allies have begun a right-wing pressure campaign against Republicans opposed to electing him speaker, working to unleash the rage of the party’s base voters against any lawmaker standing in the way of his election. Even after Mr. Jordan, the hard-right Ohio Republican, won his party’s nomination for the post on […]

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The Abysmal Choices for House Speaker

The crisis of terror in Israel has made it even more urgent that the House of Representatives move past its schoolyard infighting, elect itself a speaker and demonstrate that the United States still has a functional government, one that can play a significant role in supporting democratic allies around the globe. So far, however, the […]

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U.A.W. Does Not Expand Strikes at Automakers

The United Automobile Workers union said on Friday that it had made progress in its negotiations with Ford Motor, General Motors and Stellantis, the parent of Chrysler, and would not expand the strikes against the companies that began three weeks ago. In an online video, the president of the union, Shawn Fain, said G.M. had […]

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Matt Gaetz Is Polarizing, in Both Congress and His Florida District

He is polarizing in Washington and polarizing at home. And in both places these days, he is getting more attention than anyone might expect, given his lack of seniority and thin legislative record. As Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida orchestrated the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday, constituents in his overwhelmingly Republican district had […]

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Americans Deserve Better From the House of Representatives

The U.S. Capitol may be perched on a hill, but it is understandable why so many Americans look down on it. One of the main reasons is that their Congress, which ought to be a global beacon of liberal values, continues to succumb to self-inflicted paralysis. How else can it be that fewer than a […]

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