The California Labor Commissioner’s Office announced Thursday that Lyft will pay $272.5 million to settle a wage and worker misclassification lawsuit., Read MoreContinue Reading
Residents of Ras al-Ahmar say Israeli restrictions have cut access to water, animal feed, healthcare., Saeed Ayed* watches over his livestock herd. The animals are starving and parched due to a two-week-long Israeli siege on the Ras al-Ahmar Bedouin community in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley. Access to theContinue Reading
Court reinstates two Arab lists and Jewish Knesset member Ofer Cassif as Balad leader withdraws after pressure., Court reinstates two Arab lists and Jewish Knesset member Ofer Cassif as Balad leader withdraws after pressure. Israel’s top court has overturned an election panel’s ban on Arab parties contesting parliamentary elections thisContinue Reading
The judge said prosecutors presented enough evidence for a jury to consider whether Clancy knew what she was doing was wrong.Continue Reading
The 57 people in a group chat where the Cornell assault was openly discussed may not have been forced to report it. That may change.Continue Reading
Kazakhstan detained Ukrainian citizen Liubov Rozhanska in Astana on 1 October at Russia’s request, after she traveled there to receive her grandson, a Ukrainian boy whose father has sought his return to Ukraine, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported. Russia accuses Rozhanska of attempting to abduct the child and is seeking herContinue Reading
Russia is attempting to build a new “shadow fleet” to “circumvent sanctions and sustain revenues from its gas exports,” the UK Foreign Office said on 1 October. Britain sanctioned eight vessels linked to the trade, including some that entered service this year, as part of a 31-designation package. The sanctions come asContinue Reading
Taiwan’s Coast Guard used a water cannon to drive two Chinese fishing boats away from waters near the Dongsha Islands., NewsFeed Taiwan’s Coast Guard used a water cannon to drive two Chinese fishing boats away from waters near the Dongsha Islands, citing concerns over unauthorised activity and asserting Taiwan’s jurisdictionContinue Reading
The US economy added 29,000 jobs in September, with unemployment rising to 4.2 percent, according to Labor Department., Job growth in the United States slowed in September, falling short of economists’ expectations as the unemployment rate rose in the final jobs report before the consequential midterm elections. The US economyContinue Reading
The unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.2% from 4.1%. The numbers won’t stop the Federal Reserve from raising rates, but it might pause. The post Hiring pulled back in September as U.S. economy added 29,srcsrcsrc jobs appeared first on MS NOW…Continue Reading
This Sunday, Brazilian voters head to the polls to decide whether leftwing incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will win a historic fourth term. Lula’s challenger is Flávio Bolsonaro, who has styled himself as a more moderate version of his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, the rightwing firebrand whoContinue Reading
When it burst into widespread use as a result of the 1976 movie All the President’s Men, the phrase “Follow the money” referred to political influence or corruption and how to track it. Fifty years later, the meaning of the phrase hasn’t changed much — but following the money isContinue Reading
For years, a subculture of amateur investigators has been publicly performing a by-now familiar script. Posing as children online, they arrange meetings with unsuspecting adult men, then show up with cameras and broadcast the confrontations to audiences that can number in the millions. Some turn their evidence over to theContinue Reading