Supporters wave signs during an address at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 5, 2012 on the second day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC). Mladin Antonov | AFP | Getty Images DETROIT – United Auto Workers members have ousted their president in the union’s first direct election, ushering in
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In this article DG WMT KR SNAP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A worker carries bananas inside the Walmart SuperCenter in North Bergen, New Jersey. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez | AP For some shoppers who already struggle to cover grocery bills, the budget is getting tighter. This month, pandemic-related emergency funding from the Supplemental Nutrition
Illustration by Gene Kim As weed becomes legal in more states, how and if travelers can bring their stash on board remains up in the air. Twenty-one states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational use for adults 21 years and older, and 37 states and Washington, D.C., have medical marijuana programs. But marijuana is still
A “For Sale” sign outside of a home in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images Home prices cooled in January, up only 3.8% nationally than they were a year earlier, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index. That is down from 5.6%
In this article CMG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chipotle restaurant in Teterboro, New Jersey. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to pay $240,000 to the former employees of an Augusta, Maine, location as part of a settlement for closing the restaurant when workers tried to unionize. Employees
In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bob Iger, CEO, Disney, during CNBC interview, Feb. 9, 2023. Randy Shropshire | CNBC Disney will begin layoffs this week, the first of three rounds before the beginning of the summer that result in about 7,000 job cuts, according to a memo sent by Chief
In this article VORB SPCE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT NEWQUAY, ENGLAND – JANUARY 09: A general view of Cosmic Girl, a Boeing 747-400 aircraft carrying the LauncherOne rocket under its left wing, as final preparations are made at Cornwall Airport Newquay on January 9, 2023 in Newquay, United Kingdom. Virgin Orbit launches its
Humza Yousaf has won the SNP leadership contest and is set to be named as Scotland’s new first minister, replacing Nicola Sturgeon. The explosive leadership contest was sparked following Ms Sturgeon’s shock resignation last month. Lorna Finn, the SNP’s national secretary, stated that the total turnout in the leadership election was 70% with 50,490 of
The route of a proposed new bus network built to help people living in outer London cope with the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) has been published by Sadiq Khan. In tweets on Tuesday, the Mayor of London said the ‘Superloop’ “will make it easier for Londoners to get around the capital
The leader of the UK’s largest teaching union has refused to rule out fresh strikes which disrupt exams after recommending that members reject an “insulting” pay rise. The government has offered teachers in England a £1,000 extra cash payment this year and an average 4.5% increase next year in a bid to end the long-running
Labour’s governing body has voted to ban Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a candidate for the party at the next general election. The National Executive Committee (NEC) voted 22 to 12 to approve a motion from Sir Keir Starmer to prevent his predecessor from being endorsed. It means it is now down to Mr Corbyn
Afghan refugees who were housed in hotels after fleeing the Taliban takeover of Kabul will be given at least three months’ notice to leave their accommodation from the end of April. Veterans’ minister Johnny Mercer said the government would “step up our support to help resettled and relocated Afghans access independent settled accommodation and end
The last governor of Hong Kong, Lord Patten, has said it is “demeaning and delusional” for the UK to not call out China’s behaviour over trade fears. Lord Patten, who is now chancellor of Oxford University, said China is a threat “we have to engage with in order to deal with global problems like climate
Candidates who wish to stand for Labour at the next election will be given the right to appeal if the party rejects their bid to become an MP, Sky News can reveal. Labour has faced accusations of fixing parliamentary selections for candidates who are preferred by the leadership while using “due diligence” checks to bar
Rishi Sunak has defended plans to detain child migrants as part of his new immigration bill, claiming excluding them from the legislation would “incentivise” criminal gangs to bring them to the UK in small boats. The Illegal Migration Bill is currently being debated in the Commons, and includes measures to “detain and swiftly remove” migrants
Humza Yousaf has been officially elected as Scotland’s new first minister after he was backed by a majority of MSPs. Following his victory in the SNP leadership race on Monday, the 37-year-old faced a vote at Holyrood to confirm him as Nicola Sturgeon’s successor. Opposition parties were able to put themselves forward in the process,
Kate Forbes has rejected a job offer from Scotland’s new first minister Humza Yousaf and will return to the backbenches after serving in government for almost five years. A senior source told Sky News that Ms Forbes, who narrowly lost the SNP leadership race to Mr Yousaf on Monday, was asked to take on the
The Indian Space Research Organisation said it successfully carried out an “extremely challenging” controlled re-entry experiment of the decommissioned orbiting Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT-1) satellite. “The satellite re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and would have disintegrated over the Pacific Ocean”, the Bengaluru-headquartered national space agency said on Twitter on Tuesday. The final impact region estimated is in the
NASA is on track to launch a crewed mission around the Moon in November of next year after a successful unmanned test flight, the US space agency said Tuesday. NASA officials provided an update on the Artemis programme, which aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the historic Apollo missions
The US Air Force C-17 aircraft landed in Bengaluru on Wednesday and handed over NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) NISAR to the Indian space agency which marks a milestone in the US-India ties in space collaboration. “Touchdown in Bengaluru! @ISRO receives NISAR (@NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) on a @USAirforce C-17 from@NASAJPL in California, setting the
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