Politics / StudentNation / September 6, 2023 Domestic Worker Bills of Rights Have Passed Across the Country. What Has Changed? Around 90 percent of domestic workers in Massachusetts did not seek help when their rights were violated. “If we have a law that nobody knows, that means nobody is using it.” Nicholas Miller Ad Policy…
4 hours ago About sharing By Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News The 52 Wilko shops set to close next week due to the chain’s collapse have been named. Administrators PwC said 26 shops would close next Tuesday, with a further 28 to shut on Thursday 14 September due to the “absence of viable offers”…
Luis Rubiales: Jenni Hermoso files legal complaint over Women’s World Cup final kiss Last updated on 43 minutes ago43 minutes ago.From the section Women’s Football Jenni Hermoso has filed a legal complaint over the kiss by Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales. Rubiales kissed Hermoso on the lips after Spain’s World Cup final win, which…
20 minutes ago About sharing Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Mick Jagger arrived in Hackney at lunchtime on Wednesday ahead of the album launch By Mark Savage and Steven McIntosh BBC News The Rolling Stones have unveiled their first album of new material since 2005, and the first since the death of drummer Charlie Watts….
8 minutes ago About sharing By Sean Seddon and Daniel Sandford BBC News A manhunt has been launched for a soldier suspected of terror offences who escaped from prison on Wednesday morning. Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was awaiting trial after being accused of leaving fake bombs at a military base. He escaped from HMP Wandsworth,…
36 minutes ago About sharing A stem-cell derived human embryo model showing blue cells (embryo), yellow cells (yolk sac) and pink cells (placenta). By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb. The Weizmann Institute team say their…
Politics / September 6, 2023 The Road to a Democratic Congress Could Run Through Alabama A court will intervene to create a second majority-Black district in a state that has used gerrymandering to boost the GOP. John Nichols Ad Policy A line of people wait outside the federal courthouse in Birmingham, Ala., on Monday, August…
Books & the Arts / September 6, 2023 A New World The Soviet remaking of the Pale Jews. The Saga of the Pale and Soviet Jews The trials and tribulations of a tumultuous period. Bela Shayevich Ad Policy Jewish children in the Soviet Union’s youth movement in Minsk. (Getty) This article appears in the September…
Activism OppArt Today 8:30 am Fighting Sexism in Spain Fighting Sexism in Spain Spanish soccer federation President Luis Rubiales’s forcibly kissing star player Jenni Hermoso at the Women’s World Cup generated widespread support for Hermoso and reinvigorated the MeToo movement in Spain with the hashtags #SeAcabó. Andrea Arroyo September 6, 2023 (Andrea Arroyo) Check out…
September 6, 2023 Henry Kissinger’s Malevolent Influence Will Be With Us Long After He’s Gone Kissinger’s brand of realpolitik was delusional, amoral, and ruthless—and it persists today. Rebecca Gordon Ad Policy German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger attend the conference of the German Marshall Fund of the United States…