Activism / December 28, 2023 Shawn Fain’s New Year’s Resolution Is to Lay the Ground for a National Strike By having contracts with all the Big Three automakers expire on May Day, 2028, the UAW president also issued a challenge to the labor movement. Will his union be ready to meet it? Jonathan Rosenblum Ad…
52 minutes ago About sharing Fans tried to shield from the sun as they queued to get into the stadium in Rio By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News A 23-year-old fan who collapsed at a Taylor Swift concert in Rio de Janeiro in November died of heat exhaustion, post-mortem examinations cited in Brazilian media suggest. Ana…
Police had stopped the lorry, but the driver refused to get out of the vehicle.
57 minutes ago About sharing Properties have been flooded in Cupar, Fife About 14,000 homes are still without power after Storm Gerrit brought blizzards and flooding to Scotland. Properties have been flooded in Cupar, Fife, while drivers were stranded by snow on the A9 in the Higlands on Wednesday evening. The road was shut at…
8 hours ago About sharing Carolyn Stephens with her father Vincent in Ghana, 1994 By Sue Mitchell & Ben Milne BBC News When her elderly father found a new partner, Carolyn Stephens was stopped from seeing him, and then left helpless as he vanished from her life. In 2012, Carolyn waved goodbye to her 78-year-old…
7 hours ago About sharing Watch: Dramatic videos from Prague as people are seen leaping from building ledge By Rob Cameron & James Gregory BBC News The gunman who killed 14 people at a university in Prague confessed to an earlier double murder in his suicide note, Czech police have said. The note found in…
Rooves are torn off houses, trees are blown down and walls collapse during Storm Gerrit.
33 minutes ago About sharing Fighting on the Israeli-Lebanese border earlier this week By James Gregory BBC News Israel’s military will act to remove Hezbollah from the border with Lebanon if its attacks continue, an Israeli minister has warned. Benny Gantz said the IDF would intervene if the world and the Lebanese government did not…
12 minutes ago About sharing The dreams of integration of Jacques Delors, seen here in 2012, faced stiff UK opposition By James Gregory BBC News Political leaders have paid tribute to former European Commission President Jacques Delors, who has died aged 98. Serving from 1985 to 1995, Delors helped create the single market allowing the…
