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Jul 02 2024
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Russia Throws Armenia Under the Bus to Boost Iran Ties
Just last week, Moldova and Ukraine started formal talks with the European Union. A not-so-funny thing happened on President Putin’s way to rebuilding the Soviet Union. Nobody wanted to join. In Old Church Slavonic, Vladimir Putin’s first name means “ruler of the world.” However, he is having trouble controlling the fringes of Russia’s historic empire. Last week, Moldova and Ukraine started
The New York SunAug 12 2024
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Director Richard Hunter on Locarno First Feature ‘Foul Evil Deeds’: “Not Picking up Dog Poo to Killing Your Wife and Everything in Between’
Richard Hunter’s feature “Foul Evil Deeds” is one of the more European of British first features, taking its inspiration from continental art house names rather than the more usual luminaries of U.K. social realism such as Ken Loach and Mike Leigh. It consists of interwoven stories of everyday wickedness, from the careless to the horrific: “The influences are people like Ulrich Seidel and
VarietyJan 19 2024
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Sports Illustrated Laying Off 'Possibly All' Of Its Unionized Staff
The magazine’s future is in the hands of Authentic Brands Group, its owner since 2019. Shortly after acquiring the magazine, ABG sold SI’s publishing rights to a company called the Arena Group, which missed a recent payment for those rights, according to the union. ABG responded by pulling the Arena Group’s publishing license, leading to Friday’s mass layoffs. “This is another difficult day in
HuffPostJan 19 2024
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Blood Supply At Emergency Levels: Where To Donate Near Union City
UNION CITY, CA — American Red Cross officials are asking Union City residents to roll up their sleeves and give blood or platelets to address a nationwide blood shortage exacerbated by severe winter weather that forced hundreds of blood drive cancellations across the country. Since early January, about 265 blood drives across 27 states were canceled due to weather, leaving more than 8,000
Patch.comJan 18 2024
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Four NJ family members dead in murder-suicide in Union County
Four members of a Union County, N.J., family were killed in what police said Thursday was a murder-suicide. The bodies of Ruben Alarcon, 51, his wife Andrea Alarcon, 42, and their two children were discovered in their Lincrest Terrace home Wednesday morning, all gunshot victims, officials said. An investigation determined Andrea Alarcon fatally shot her husband and their two daughters before
GothamistMar 01 2024
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Union rejects Kroger contract offer at 38 stores in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Union workers at 38 Kroger stores in West Virginia and two other states have voted to reject the grocery chain’s contract proposal and give their bargaining committee the authority to call a strike. Members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400 Union voted 1,375 to 214 against the three-year contract offer and 1,347 to 229 to authorize a strike. Workers
Associated PressAug 15 2024
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Trump's Doing Better Among These Voters Than Any Republican in Decades, Pollster Says
The United Auto Workers is taking a stand in the 2024 election, launching a nationwide effort to mobilize its network of 1 million retired and active workers to vote for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 election. The move to influence these voters in key battleground states comes after UAW president Shawn Fain endorsed the vice president last month. But
TownhallAug 15 2024
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Millions set aside to support supply chain businesses hit by Tata job losses
The Government is set to unveil a £13.5million cash injection to support businesses and workers hit by job cuts at Tata Steel, which is transitioning to eco-friendlier steel production at its Port Talbot facility in South Wales, requiring fewer employees. Despite union opposition, with forecasts of thousands of redundancies, Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens is poised to announce the funding today as
The MirrorAug 10 2024
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Redbridge bin collectors to strike again over working conditions
Refuse workers in Redbridge, east London, are due to strike again in a row over working conditions, the Unite union has announced. The union said its members would walk out between 22 August and 5 September after the council "failed to address" issues "despite pleas from workers". It follows a previous strike by the workers over the same issues between 1 and 7 July. Redbridge Council has been
BBC NewsAug 14 2024
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Stories from Maine: “You don’t peg lobsters like that!” A hard-fought effort to move a statue to the Midcoast
By April of 1939, the Great Depression was nearly over and the United States was ready to celebrate at the World’s Fair in New York, where every state in the Union would have a place to exhibit. Portland artist Victor Kahill wanted to create a statue for this fair and his composition of a Maine fisherman would grace the entryway in Maine’s Hall. Kahill asked Bailey Island Captain H. Elroy
Portland Press Herald