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Strikes start at top hotel chains as housekeepers seek higher wages and daily room cleaning work
With up to 17 rooms to clean each shift, Fatima Amahmoud’s job at the Moxy hotel in downtown Boston sometimes feels impossible. The dog owner had declined daily room cleaning, an option that many hotels have encouraged as environmentally friendly but is a way for them to cut labor costs and cope with worker shortages Continue reading
Columbia protesters’ demands have worked before. This time may be different.
Go to newsletter preferences Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Student protests are escalating there and other college campuses over the Israel-Gaza war and schools’ investments in Israeli entities, with demonstrators on Tuesday breaking into a Columbia campus building and occupying it. Continue reading
Veterans Group Slams Trump Over His ‘Greatest Insult To All’ With Arlington Visit
LOADING ERROR LOADING A progressive veterans group went after “disgusting” Donald Trump this past week following the GOP nominee’s controversial stop at Arlington National Cemetery that included campaign staffers’ altercation with cemetery officials. “Now, maybe the greatest insult of all, turning a military cemetery visit into a political stunt with cameras in tow,” said a Continue reading
This Mom Is Livid Because She Bought Her Kid $80 Worth Of Favors To Throw In A School Parade, But Their Teacher Gave It To Someone Else
A parent bought their child favors to throw in a school parade, but found out their child’s teacher took away a portion of those favors to give to another student who ran out. Recently, they had a Mardi Gras parade, and I bought him $80 worth of throws for the parade so he will have Continue reading
Far right set to win in a German state for the first time since WWII
BERLIN — Projections in Germany’s closely watched elections Sunday showed the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party leading in one state and running a close second in another, a result that, if confirmed by official tallies, would see a far-right party win a state for the first time in the country’s postwar history. The projections, Continue reading
RFK Jr sues to remove name from North Carolina ballot
The lawsuit, filed in North Carolina’s Wake County Superior Court, alleges the state has “irreparably harmed” Mr Kennedy and interfered with his right to free speech by denying his request to be removed from the ballot. Mr Kennedy’s lawsuit stated that with ballot deadlines looming, he had “no choice but to turn to this Court Continue reading
Even desert plants known for their resilience are burning and dying in the heat
LAS VEGAS — On a sun-parched stretch of West Charleston Boulevard, Norm Schilling pulled his truck over to the side of the road just to visit his favorite tree. Schilling, a local horticulturalist who runs a landscaping company and owns a garden shop called Mojave Bloom Nursery, saved this African sumac decades ago after an Continue reading
Government defeats no-confidence motion by 86 votes to 67
READ MORE Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl said the debate had been “a disgrace” with constant heckling and interruptions between Government and Opposition benches. Meanwhile, Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen has faced criticism for his remarks during the debate where he said extending the eviction ban would be like “making sweets free for children”. “It’s Continue reading
Thailand wages war against invasive blackchin tilapia
One theory that parliament has looked into is that an experiment by food behemoth Charoen Pokphand Food (CPF) 14 years ago had caused the spread. The company, which produces animal feed and runs shrimp and livestock farms, imported 2,000 from Ghana in late 2010. Two years later, outbreaks of blackchin tilapia were reported in Thailand, Continue reading