A bill working its way through the Maryland state legislature would incentivize companies switch to a four-day workweek, allowing employees to work 32 hours instead of 40 without seeing any pay cut or loss of benefits.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called a White House memo outlining President Biden’s plan for their meeting on Wednesday ‘political games.’ The memo, released on Tuesday, said Biden will ask McCarthy if he will commit to avoiding a default and if he will release a budget proposal outlining House GOP spending plans. “Mr. President: I received...
Whole Foods asked suppliers in a recent meeting to lower prices on packaged foods The Wall Street Journal viewed a recording of a meeting in December between Whole Foods and its suppliers in which the Amazon-owned company said it wanted its suppliers to lower its prices so that it could lower its own prices. Grocery...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday brushed off former President Donald Trump’s latest attacks with a simple message: check the scoreboard. Asked during a news conference about Trump’s criticism over the weekend of his approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, DeSantis responded with a reminder that he won reelection last year by the largest margin of...
The non-story of the week is — or rather, should have been — the OPEC+ meeting of the world’s top oil exporters, who meet virtually on Feb. 1 and are expected to make no change in their production. The calming perception expected of this meeting probably changed on Monday, when the Kremlin announced that President Vladimir...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) announced that she will be launching a policy working group to hear from officials and experts who work with and in Africa as her committee assignment remains unclear. Omar launched the U.S.-Africa Policy Working Group on Tuesday, saying in a statement that the group will hold briefings with administration officials, journalists...
A former speechwriter for Russian President Vladimir Putin predicted that a military coup was possible for the country in the next year, pointing to a deteriorating economy and the growing unpopularity of the war in Ukraine. Abbas Gallyamov, Putin’s former speechwriter who is now a political commentator, said the Russian president could be facing a...
Alumni of for-profit colleges are split over whether the cost of their degree was worth it, according to a new report from Public Agenda. The report found 38 percent of for-profit alumni believe their degree was worth what it cost, while 37 percent say it was not. The rest said, “it remains to be seen.” ...
The former president is seeking just under $50 million in damages over audio recordings released by Woodward and his publisher without Trump's consent.