salon.com —  55+ min ago

...Ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testified during a much-anticipated hearing led by Sen.... ...Howard Schultz claims Starbucks has never broken labor laws despite dozens of violations.... ..."Are you aware that [National Labor Relations Board] judges have ruled that Starbucks violated federal labor law over 100 times during the past 18... ...For the roughly two hours that Schultz was in the hot seat before Sander's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, he stubbornly...

salon.com —  20+ hour, 33+ min ago

...Donald Trump confuses NATO and NAFTA during Fox News interview.... ...Former President Donald Trump on Fox News bragged that he withdrew from NATO, confusing the security alliance with the NAFTA trade agreement.... ...The former president tried to reference the North American Free Trade Agreement but instead highlighted the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a... ..."And I told other countries, "If you go into the Nord Stream, you are not going to do any business with the United States of America," meaning rip...

salon.com —  1+ hour, 53+ min ago

...Longtime White House correspondent Brian Karem writes a weekly column for Salon.... ...On Monday I saw something in the White House briefing room I'd never seen before.... ...He has issued executive orders and while press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told us Wednesday those were the most extensive any president has issued... ...In June 2017, then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was injured in a mass shooting in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside the nation's capital....

salon.com —  2+ hour, 29+ min ago

...Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's longtime former chief financial officer, is no longer being represented by his Trump Organization-funded... ...no longer being represented by attorneys Nick Gravante and Mary Mulligan, according to WNBC.... ...s office convict the Trump Organization in a tax fraud scheme. Karen Agnifilo, former chief assistant district attorney of the Manhattan D.A.'... ...Manhattan district attorney probe into the 2016 hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, The New York Times reported last year....

salon.com —  6+ hour, 22+ min ago

...Yet not all space scientists and engineers agree with that assessment, saying that NASA budget critics are misusing the word "cancel."... ...The budget reduction has sparked a debate among the community of astronomers, scientists and engineers who advocate for space exploration.... ...Noam Izenberg, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Chair of NASA's Venus Exploration Analysis Group ... ...Darby Dyar, VERITAS" deputy principal investigator, seemed to sum up the consensus view when he told Space.com that "the idea of standing the team...

salon.com —  5+ hour, 39+ min ago

...A Biblical scholar on the Absurdity of using the Bible to justify the Republican Party's devotion to guns.... ...So, as our nation reels from yet another mass shooting -- this time, a gunman killed three children and three adults at an elementary school in Nashville... ..."As a Christian, we talk about the church," Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said after this week's shooting.... ...Ted Budd of North Carolina, while slamming background checks for gun owners, once proclaimed, "Our right to life and liberty are absolutely God-given...

salon.com —  5+ hour, 52+ min ago

...On Wednesday, the Kansas state Senate advanced a bill based on the misleading notion that fetuses are sometimes born "alive" after an abortion.... ...Why "born alive" bills like Kansas" are a ruse designed to spread abortion misinformation.... ...In as statement to Salon, Anamarie Rebori-Simmons, the communications director for Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes, a Kansas-based branch of... ...Recently, Republican Congresswoman Ann Wagner of Missouri reintroduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act at the federal level....

salon.com —  1+ day ago

..., 59 children were killed by gun violence just in the first 87 days of 2023.... ...Sadly, the tragedy in Nashville is not an isolated event, but part of a larger trend: As reported by the nonprofit advocacy group Gun Violence Archive... ...Colleen Creighton, director of the End Family Fire program at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, told Salon in an interview that it is "absolutely... ...Moreover, a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found that firearms are the leading cause of death for children in the United States....

salon.com —  22+ hour, 52+ min ago

...During a town hall on Monday night in Goffstown, New Hampshire, Christie denounced recent comments from former President Donald Trump and called... ...for the Republican Party to nominate an alternative candidate in the next election, hinting that he might run himself.... ..."We all made a strategic error I stayed with him in 2016 because I didn't want Hillary Clinton to be president," Christie said.... ...Christie then claimed that he and other Republicans who bad-mouthed Trump but ultimately backed him against Clinton didn't know "what kind of president...

salon.com —  16+ hour, 52+ min ago

...Randi Weingarten heads the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union in the United States with 1.7 million members.... ...AFT President Randi Weingarten says GOP has an "intentional strategy" to sow distrust of public schools. Published March 29, 2023 6:30PM (EDT).... ...In terms of culture wars, just yesterday I saw that they're banning Harry Potter in Mobile, Alabama.... ...In a March 28 address to the National Press Club, Weingarten declared that the culture wars and voucher programs are an existential threat to public...