Thousands of unionized Starbucks workers walked off the job on Thursday amid the coffee chain’s annual Red Cup Day in protest of the company’s various promotional days and persistent staffing issues. Starbucks Workers United, which represents more than 9,000 workers at over 360 stores, said about 5,000 people were participating in the so-called “Red Cup...
In April of 2021, we argued on these pages that the lack of national childcare policy amounted to an national emergency. We pointed out that all 50 states fail the definition of childcare affordability established in 2016 by the Department of Health and Human Services. We reported that surveys have repeatedly identified childcare costs as the top reason Americans are having...
Speculation is swirling in Washington over a possible expulsion vote for Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) after the House Ethics Committee published scathing accusations of lies and misallocation of funds in a report Thursday. Santos faces criminal charges alleging campaign finances violations and fraud. He announced Thursday that he will not run for reelection. The embattled...
House Judiciary Commitee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is continuing his probe on how banks handled customer information around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by subpoenaing Bank of America on Thursday. The Ohio Republican requested records connected to Bank of America’s information-sharing with the FBI. “The Committee has received 223...
All the areas of new bilateral cooperation announced in San Francisco simply resumed limited aspects of activities already under way before Xi took power.
The social media platform TikTok said it is “aggressively” removing content that praises Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to America.” The letter, published about a year after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, was bin Laden’s attempt to justify the targeting and killing of American civilians. It has been recirculating online recently. Bin Laden was...
The Supreme Court denied a request from the DeSantis administration asking to lift a court order banning enforcement of the state's new drag queen law.
The arrested owner of a California biolab allegedly has ties to the government of the People’s Republic of China, the House Select Committee on the CCP announced.
The Pentagon confirmed during a press briefing Thursday that there have been 58 attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria since Oct. 17, by Iranian proxies.