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1 week, 6 days ago

How Trump is giving the labor movement the blue-collar blues

CNN

CNN — The Democrats’ last line of defense against Republican inroads among working-class voters is continuing to crumble. While Vice President Kamala Harris ran strongly among union members with a college degree, Trump’s strong showing among the blue-collar components of the labor movement illuminates how high a wall of distrust Democrats face in working class communities at the close of …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff faces explosive new allegations from his time at top LA law firm

Daily Mail

Kamala Harris's husband was 'inappropriate' and 'misogynistic' at work, his former colleagues tell DailyMail.com. Emhoff recently sat down for a fawning interview with Jen Psaki during which the former White House Press Secretary told the Second Gentleman that he had 'reshaped the perception of masculinity' The shocking allegations are a striking contrast to Emhoff's benevolent image promoted by the Harris …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

'Just pathetic': Leading educator slams J.D. Vance for accusing her of 'brainwashing'

Raw Story

The head of the American Federation of Teachers came out swinging on CNN in response to former President Donald Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D. "I didn't criticize Randi Weingarten for not having kids," said Vance in a tape played on CNN's "The Source." "Well, first, he criticized — maybe he didn't listen to his own tape from 2021," said Weingarten. …

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4 months ago

Deep seas and tight spaces impede search for 6 missing after yacht sinks off Sicily

Associated Press

PORTICELLO, Sicily — Police divers resumed searching Tuesday for six people believed trapped in the hull of a superyacht that sank in deep seas off Sicily, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who was celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges with the people who had defended him at trial. Italian firefighters scuba divers direct towards rescue teams who returned …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

With a few holdouts, Kamala Harris rides Biden wave to pick up union support

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The vice president spoke at an event held …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Britney and Jamie Spears settlement avoids long, potentially ugly and revealing trial

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears and her father Jamie Spears will avoid what could have been a long, ugly and revealing trial with a settlement of the lingering issues in the court conservatorship that controlled her life and financial decisions for nearly 14 years. Spears’ attorney Mathew Rosengart had also sought a public reckoning over what he said was financial …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Britney Spears ends protracted battle with her father over conservatorship legal fees

LA Times

Jamie Spears, left, and his daughter Britney Spears have settled their dispute over legal fees relating to her protracted conservatorship. Britney Spears and her father Jamie Spears, her former conservator, have settled their protracted legal dispute over the payment of his legal fees and how he managed her finances during her 13-year conservatorship. Jamie Spears, 71, served as the conservator …

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9 months ago

Former British tech star depicted as scam artist, visionary in trial about HP’s disastrous 2011 deal

Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors on Monday painted one-time British tech star Mike Lynch as the ruthless mastermind of an $11 billion deal that defrauded Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard. Meanwhile, Whitman, he said, had praised Autonomy’s products as “magical software.” “HP was in desperate shape, so they needed to do something,” Weingarten told the jury during his hourlong opening …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Joe Biden, America’s oldest sitting president, needs young voters to win again. Will his age matter?

Associated Press

At 24, Alberto Rodriguez has grandparents younger than Joe Biden. “People as young as me, we’re all focusing on our day-to-day lives and he has done things to help us through that,” Rodriguez, a cook at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, said of Biden’s support among young voters. Former President Donald Trump, who is the early front-runner …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Lauren Boebert lashes out at gun bans: 'We're not a democracy so quit with that!'

Raw Story

Rep. Lauren Boebert argued that the United States is "not a democracy" in response to teachers union president Randi Weingarten's call to enact gun bans similar to ones in Australia and New Zealand. At an American Federation of Teachers meeting Tuesday morning, Weingarten had addressed the Nashville school shooting by calling for a reaction similar to "other great democracies." Boebert …

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2 years, 4 months ago

AFT head Randi Weingarten's agenda is destroying education critics claim

Daily Mail

American education is failing; students are falling behind; parents express mounting frustration and teachers are leaving the profession in record breaking numbers. AFT president Randi Weingarten's policies are behind issues such as Critical Race Theory, outdated mask mandates and have caused teachers to quit in droves, her critics claim White teachers have been accused of the 'spirit murder' of minority …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Librarians push back against book-banning

Salon

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. The goal of Unite Against Book Bans—which also includes the Authors Guild and prominent publishers such as Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster—is "to empower individuals and communities to fight censorship and protect the freedom to read," according to the ALA. "This is a dangerous time for readers and the public servants …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Holocaust novel ‘Maus’ banned in Tennessee school district

Associated Press

ATHENS, Tenn. — A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman, according to minutes from a board meeting. In an interview, Spiegelman told CNBC he was “baffled” by the school board’s decision and called the action “Orwellian.” “It’s leaving me with …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Britney Spears’ lawyer calls father Jamie’s request to unseal singer’s medical records ‘offensive’

The Independent

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. On Wednesday, Variety reported that Jamie’s lawyer Alex Weingarten …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Unions split on vaccine mandates, complicating Biden push

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The more conservative side of the labor movement, …

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3 years, 3 months ago

How curry ketchup became an unexpected icon in post-war Germany

Salon

In 2009, a man named Martin Löwer opened the Deutsches Currywurst Museum, which was, as the name suggests, the world's first and only museum dedicated to the cult-favorite sausage dish. "The British then commercialized and sold a spice blend under the name 'curry powder,' what you see in your basic grocery store today," she wrote, which is why British soldiers …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Why do we care if a foreigner dislikes our food?

Live Mint

The first time I saw food through the lens of race, first-hand, was when my former partner left a kettle on the burner for too long, filling the apartment with noxious smoke. In the original story—which has now been edited to remove the comments—he also referred to Indian food as the "only ethnic cuisines in the world insanely based on …

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3 years, 3 months ago

US columnist disses Indian food, desi twitter claps back

Deccan Chronicle

Twitter took up arms against the Washington Post when a recent article by a US newspaper described Indian food as “based entirely on one spice”, and being able to knock off “a vulture off a meat wagon”. The article had also previously referred to Indian food as “the only ethnic cuisine in the world based entirely on one spice”, and …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Padma Lakshmi Shreds 'Racist' Column Claiming Indian Food Is Based 'On One Spice'

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Padma Lakshmi was among those left with a sour taste in her mouth after reading a Washington Post opinion column that inaccurately dismissed Indian cuisine as being “based entirely on one spice.” Written by humor columnist Gene Weingarten and published last week, “You Can’t Make Me Eat These Foods” focuses on the author’s distaste for sweet pickles, …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Teacher union president: Goal is to get kids back to school

Associated Press

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — The head of a national teachers union visited New Mexico on Thursday as part of a nationwide campaign to convince parents that it’s safe to send their kids back to public school. The Albuquerque school board ended its meeting early Wednesday amid parents protesting and members of a rural school board in eastern New Mexico were …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Randi Weingarten: You can’t keep us from teaching students honest history

CNN

Editor’s Note: Randi Weingarten is president of the 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers. Critical race theory is the examination, principally in law school but also elsewhere at the undergraduate and graduate level in college, of whether systemic racism exists and whether it affects law and public policy – it asks, for example, whether policies that prohibited Black Americans from …

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3 years, 5 months ago

US teachers’ union pledges legal action to protect educators over critical race theory

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Amid an ongoing culture war against critical race theory, the …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Teachers Union President Is 'All In' On Full Fall School Reopening

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING The president of the American Federation of Teachers said Thursday there should be a full return to in-person learning in the fall and her union is “all in” on bringing students back to the classroom. In an address on social media, Randi Weingarten said the wide availability of vaccines and a new infusion of federal education money …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Fox News Host Has Uncomfortable Moment As Guest Presses On Election Misinformation

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Fox News host Martha MacCallum didn’t take kindly to being pressed about the cable channel’s role in spreading election misinformation during Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Story.” MacCallum and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten were discussing the teaching of critical race theory when Weingarten pivoted to talk about ex-President Donald Trump’s election lies, which have been …

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How Trump is giving the labor movement the blue-collar blues

Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff faces explosive new allegations from his time at top LA law firm

'Just pathetic': Leading educator slams J.D. Vance for accusing her of 'brainwashing'

Deep seas and tight spaces impede search for 6 missing after yacht sinks off Sicily

With a few holdouts, Kamala Harris rides Biden wave to pick up union support

Britney and Jamie Spears settlement avoids long, potentially ugly and revealing trial

Britney Spears ends protracted battle with her father over conservatorship legal fees

Former British tech star depicted as scam artist, visionary in trial about HP’s disastrous 2011 deal

Joe Biden, America’s oldest sitting president, needs young voters to win again. Will his age matter?

Lauren Boebert lashes out at gun bans: 'We're not a democracy so quit with that!'

AFT head Randi Weingarten's agenda is destroying education critics claim

Librarians push back against book-banning

Holocaust novel ‘Maus’ banned in Tennessee school district

Britney Spears’ lawyer calls father Jamie’s request to unseal singer’s medical records ‘offensive’

Unions split on vaccine mandates, complicating Biden push

How curry ketchup became an unexpected icon in post-war Germany

Why do we care if a foreigner dislikes our food?

US columnist disses Indian food, desi twitter claps back

Padma Lakshmi Shreds 'Racist' Column Claiming Indian Food Is Based 'On One Spice'

Teacher union president: Goal is to get kids back to school

Randi Weingarten: You can’t keep us from teaching students honest history

US teachers’ union pledges legal action to protect educators over critical race theory

Teachers Union President Is 'All In' On Full Fall School Reopening

Fox News Host Has Uncomfortable Moment As Guest Presses On Election Misinformation