What You Need to Know About the Legal Quest to Destroy America's Labor Protections (www.hamiltonnolan.com)
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Mouse-infested warehouse lands Family Dollar Stores with record $41M fine (www.nbcnews.com)
An investigation found “live rodents, dead and decaying rodents, rodent feces, urine and odors,” at a warehouse in Arkansas....
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Zurich Just Paid Its Workers Double in $200 Million Bank Glitch - BNN Bloomberg (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
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Highly contagious Norwalk gastrointestinal virus on the rise in the US. (www.sacbee.com)
Wash your hands! This is an awful thing to contract.
Tuition will be free at a New York City medical school thanks to a $1 billion gift (www.npr.org)
Students in their fourth year at Einstein, located in the Bronx in New York City, will be reimbursed for the spring 2024 semester, and beginning in August, tuition will be free “in perpetuity,” the school said Monday.
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Tuition will be free at a New York City medical school thanks to a $1 billion gift (www.npr.org)
Students in their fourth year at Einstein, located in the Bronx in New York City, will be reimbursed for the spring 2024 semester, and beginning in August, tuition will be free “in perpetuity,” the school said Monday.
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Wendy's is introducing Uber style surge pricing. (www.foodandwine.com)
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Idaho lawmakers move to protect IVF as backlash grows against Alabama decision (www.aol.com)
Idaho lawmakers from both parties are moving to protect in vitro fertilization procedures in the state after an Alabama court ruled earlier this month that embryos produced through IVF should be treated legally as children, McClatchy and the Idaho Statesman have learned....
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Inside the IRS unit taking on America’s millionaires and billionaires (www.icij.org)
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is seeking to use an infusion of funding to keep up with the ever-evolving tax maneuvers of the ultra-rich — while staving off frequent political attacks....
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US government may sue PacifiCorp, a Warren Buffett utility, for nearly $1B in wildfire costs (apnews.com)
The U.S. government is threatening to sue PacifiCorp, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, to recover nearly $1 billion in costs related to the 2020 wildfires in southern Oregon and northern California, though the company is trying to negotiate a settlement....
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Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists express concern over health impacts, with another study finding particles in arteries...
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Phones are distracting students in class. More states are pressing schools to ban them (www.nbcnews.com)
In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place bets during the school day....
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Wendy's Is Introducing Uber-Style 'Surge Pricing' (www.foodandwine.com)
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Supreme Court casts doubt on GOP-led states' efforts to regulate social media platforms (apnews.com)
The Supreme Court cast doubt Monday on state laws that could affect how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users. The cases are among several this term in which the justices could set standards for free speech in the digital age....
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This ballot measure would restore Roe. Abortion rights groups are attacking it. (www.vox.com)
South Dakota organizers want to repeal their total ban....
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Macron refuses to rule out putting troops on ground in Ukraine in call to galvanise Europe (www.theguardian.com)
Speaking at the end of the meeting, Macron warned: “There is a change in Russia’s stance. It is striving to take on further territory and it has its eyes not just on Ukraine but on many other countries as well, so Russia is presenting a greater danger.”...
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Tesla repays San Jose pie shop owner after last-minute cancellation (abc7news.com)
tl;dr After local news aired the story, Tesla has paid the pie shop $2,000, the cost of ingredients for the cancelled order.
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Everything in the garden of elections is not lovely, after years of electoral democracy, citizens are witness to attempts to subvert the electoral process (www.thehindu.com)
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‘Why are you asleep?’ Rahul Gandhi pleads with India’s low castes to vote out Modi (www.theguardian.com)
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Bill filed in Kentucky House would ease near-total abortion ban by adding rape and incest exceptions (apnews.com)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Legislation aimed at easing Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban by creating limited exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest was introduced Monday in the GOP-dominated House, as lawmakers wrangle with an issue at the forefront of last year’s campaign for governor....
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United Daughters of the Confederacy would lose Virginia tax breaks, if Youngkin signs off (apnews.com)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Legislation that would end tax benefits for the United Daughters of the Confederacy — the Richmond-based women’s group that helped erect many of the country’s Confederate monuments — is on its way to Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who hasn’t said whether he supports it....
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500 businesses could stop destruction of tropical forests. They are failing (www.independent.co.uk)
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Scientists warn that a crucial ocean current could collapse, altering global weather (www.latimes.com)
Scientists are sounding the alarm that a crucial component of the planet’s climate system is in gradual decline and could one day reach a tipping point that would radically alter global weather patterns....
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Letitia James live tweets daily interest charges on Trump’s $464m fraud ruling (www.independent.co.uk)
New York Attorney General trolls former president as interest starts accruing on monster judgment...
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