Ali Harbi Ali given whole-life sentence for Sir David Amess murder
Ali Harbi Ali was sentenced by a judge to whole-life imprisonment for the murder of Sir David Amess MP. The Southend MP was stabbed more than 20 times in constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea on 15 October 2021. Sir David was taken to the hospital but died on the spot. The Old Bailey jury also found […]
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Nearly Half of All Warehouse Injuries in 2021 Happened at Amazon Warehouses
According to a new report, Amazon is about 50% likely to be responsible for warehouse workers who were injured on the job in 2021. Amazon employed only 33% of warehouse workers in 2021, but it was responsible to 49% of all warehouse injuries that same year, according an alarming study. new report fromThe Strategic Organizing […]
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Labor Board’s Top Counsel Makes a Formal Move to Make it Easier to Unionize
The National Labor Relations Board’s top legal counsel made a formal move to make anti-union meetings during union campaigns illegal and to reinstate the Joy Silk doctrine. This labor law, long exalted, would make it much easier for workers to organize. The office of NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo urged the board to reject Monday’s […]
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Boris Johnson ‘completely mortified’, but won’t quit
The transport secretary has stressed that the prime minister is “completely mortified” by yesterday’s announcement that himself and chancellor Rishi Sunak are to be issued fines for breaching Covid rules. An official spokesperson confirmed yesterday that the pair were fined over the PM’s 2020 birthday gathering, stating: “on 19th June 2020 at the Cabinet Room […]
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Boris News – No Confidence Vote
Though the PM has obtained some backing from Conservative MPs since he was issued with a set penalty discover, the supply of that help is fascinating. As we have now up to date our record, help for the PM is seen to have come nearly solely from those that have been already listed as ‘possible […]
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Meet Biden’s Second Nominee to Head ATF
President Joe Biden appointed Steve Dettelbach, an ex-U.S. Attorney from Ohio with a history of supporting gun control measures, as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Dettelbach has a history of backing gun control measures, promoting several firearms restrictions during an unsuccessful 2018 campaign to become Ohio’s attorney general and making […]
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Democrats Introduce Bill Guaranteeing Workers Paid Time Off to Vote
A group of House Democrats introduced Monday a bill that would guarantee workers time off to vote in federal elections. Other voting rights initiatives have failed. The Time Off to Vote Act introduced byRepresentatives Nikema Williams(D-Georgia), Matt Cartwright(D-Pennsylvania), Cheri bustos (D–Illinois), and Andy Levin, (D–Michigan), asked that employers give their employees at most two hours […]
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Putin’s Brutal Ukraine Invasion Bears Some Similarities to Bush’s Attack on Iraq
In March of 2003, George W. Bush transformed the center of Baghdad into a bowl of fire during the “Shock & Awe” phase of his doomed Iraq invasion. I lay on my back that day in my living area, horrified at the scenes on television. It was a war crime millions of people had worked […]
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Corrupt Contractors in US Hogged Pandemic Relief and Delivered Unusable Goods
In Pandemic, Inc. – Chasing the Capitalists & Thieves Who Made It Rich While We Get Sick, ProPublicaJ. David McSwane is an investigative reporter who tracks federal pandemic relief funds. He finds that many contracts for critical supplies were ensnared in unprecedented fraud schemes, leaving the U.S. government without any useful equipment. He says an […]
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A Year After Police Killed Daunte Wright, Minneapolis Is Still Resisting
On Monday, 100 people gathered in Brooklyn Center neighborhood near Minneapolis to remember Daunte Wright, one year after the young Black man died when Kim Potter, a local police officer shot and killed him. Potter shot Wright at a traffic stop. He was convicted and sentenced for manslaughter. Wright’s killing set off a wave of […]
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