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Dec 09 2014
News
Supreme Court Stops Amazon Workers Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers weren’t entitled to pay for the time they spent being screened for theft at the end of their work shifts.
The court, in a unanimous opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas , said the workers couldn’t proceed with a lawsuit seeking wages for the security checks because the time they spent waiting to be screened wasn't
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 04 2014
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Shutdown drama builds in Congress
House Speaker John Boehner is again facing strong opposition from a group of conservatives who are trying to derail his strategy as time runs out to avert a shutdown. They are ripping his plan to kick the fight about the President's executive order on immigration until next year, arguing that voters who supported Republicans in last month's midterm elections expect Congress to wage the battle
CNN (Online News)Nov 06 2019
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Election Results 2019: Democrats Take Control of Virginia Legislature
Democrats now have a trifecta, giving them unified control of both chambers and governor’s office.
Democrats in Virginia won control of the state legislature in Tuesday’s elections, opening the door for lawmakers there to pass new gun-control laws, a higher minimum wage and a host of other measures Republicans have long opposed.
Wresting the House of Delegates and Senate from the
Wall Street Journal (News)Sep 27 2012
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Why Romney is losing must-win Ohio
Polls show Mitt Romney trailing President Barack Obama in just about every one of the swing states where the 2012 campaign is being waged. But Romney appears to be in deeper trouble in Ohio than elsewhere, an alarming development for Republicans who know that the candidate's White House chances begin and end with the kind of middle-class voters who reside in places such as Akron, Cincinnati
CNN (Online News)Nov 04 2019
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Inside Ukraine’s Push to Cultivate Trump From the Start
Former President Petro Poroshenko alternately flattered President Trump, signed deals with U.S. firms and met with Rudolph Giuliani.
Long before a telephone call with Ukraine’s president that prompted an impeachment inquiry, President Trump was exchanging political favors with a different Ukrainian leader, who desperately sought American help for his country’s struggle against Russian
New York Times (News)Apr 09 2020
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Sanders's influence endures as campaign ends
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ended his second and likely final run for the presidency on Wednesday, acknowledging that a “feasible” path to the Democratic nomination was “just not there.”
But Sanders’s failure to claim the big prize shouldn’t blind anyone to his achievements.
It is almost exactly five years since Sanders announced his first presidential run.
In that time,
The HillFeb 20 2021
Headline Roundup
House Democrats Unveil $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Plan
House Democrats unveiled the 591-page text of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package on Friday, which includes $1,400 direct payments, an extension of $400 federal unemployment benefits, and $350 billion in aid to state and local governments. Though Democrat leaders such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said they expect their party-led chambers to pass
Breitbart News CNN (Online News) ReutersMay 26 2020
Analysis
Joe Biden has a plan for that
Former Vice President Joe Biden has never really sought or received a reputation as a deep thinker on domestic policy matters. His highest-profile role as a senator involved judicial confirmations and his time chairing the Foreign Relations Committee. As vice president, his best-known work was in the national security domain or as a personal emissary from the White House to Congress.
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VoxSep 13 2016
Opinion
The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
While growing income inequality is a real phenomenon, a misdiagnosis of its causes and consequences leads to policies that slow growth and ultimately weaken America. Ignoring the true sources of rising inequality — namely trade, trade deficits, and immigration in an economy constrained by properly trained talent and its capacity to take entrepreneurial risk — and blaming high-wage earners
Jun 18 2019
News
Gulf crisis: US sends more troops amid tanker tension with Iran
The US military will send an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East as tensions build with Iran.
Acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan said the deployment was in response to "hostile behaviour" by Iranian forces.
The US Navy also shared new images it says link Iran to attacks last week on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
Washington has accused Iran of blowing
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