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Even people who built rainy day funds over years are watching their savings run down to zero, with no relief from the government in sight. ...[Read more]
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Images from the terrorist stampede inside the United States Capitol, where armed American far-right protesters invaded US Congress and started firing shots into the chambers. ...[Read more]
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Dutch TV news has aired footage of customs officers confiscating ham sandwiches from drivers arriving by ferry from the UK under post-Brexit rules banning personal imports of meat and dairy products into the EU.
Officials wearing high-visibility jackets a ...[Read more]
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As a share of G.D.P., Denmark’s coronavirus relief spending is a bit less than America’s, but it seems more effective at protecting the population.
The upshot is that Denmark staggered through the pandemic with employees still on the payroll and still ...[Read more]
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Workers at the Hunts Point Produce Market in New York City have overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract, ending a week-long strike that captured national attention and galvanized the community behind the essential workers at the Bronx-based busi ...[Read more]
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Business groups are preparing for a lobbying fight after Democrats in both chambers reintroduced a bill Tuesday to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025.
The Raise the Wage Act, spearheaded by incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sand ...[Read more]
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that the US Congress will establish an outside, independent commission to review the “facts and causes” related to the deadly 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump in the wanin ...[Read more]
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is now zeroing in on one suspect who may have been involved in the disturbing death of U.S. Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick who was killed amid the deadly riots that unfolded on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6.Accord ...[Read more]
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WHY DID Robert Aaron Long kill six Asian women, in three Atlanta-area massage parlors, as well as two other people who happened to be on the premises?
Many have answered: Because they were Asian women. And in the Western imaginary — in films, jokes, por ...[Read more]
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After Florida's Senate Republicans on Thursday passed an undemocratic anti-protest bill—expected to be signed into law by its chief proponent, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, as early as next week—the state's ACLU chapter condemned GOP lawmakers for "ai ...[Read more]
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Senator Bernie Sanders and Congress member Pramila Jayapal have introduced legislation that would tax Wall Street to pay for higher education. The bill would make community college free to all and would eliminate tuition and fees at public four-year colle ...[Read more]
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