“When I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips, people making tips,” Donald Trump said at a June 2024 election rally in Las Vegas, home to tens of thousands of...
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Just days after CVS Caremark was slapped with a $290 million fine for defrauding Medicare, bankruptcy trustees representing Rite Aid sued the pharmacy benefit manager for nearly twice that amount for allegedly operating an unlawful...
It has been a few months since Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s speaking tour in the United States, where she advocated for the position of Canadian capitalists on free trade and anti-tariff policies, culminating in a...
With every passing day, it looks more likely that democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani will be New York City’s next mayor. The prospect is thrilling for the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of...
Kentucky battery plant workers at the BlueOval SK Battery Park (BOSK) in Glendale have voted to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). The workers make batteries to power Ford’s all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck and...
It’s not every day that the president of the United States calls for the head of a major company to be fired. But that’s what happened last August, when President Donald Trump accused Lip-Bu Tan,...
Some people think poverty is what results when employers exploit workers on the bottom of the labor market. Other people think poverty is what results when individuals behave in dysfunctional ways. These two dominant theories...
It was easy to see a contrast. Where Czech president Petr Pavel publicly embraced a Ukrainian girl humiliated by her classmates, just a month later his Polish counterpart Karol Nawrocki removed benefits from the children...
Last year, in the final months of the Biden administration, the federal government’s internal watchdog agency issued a warning: Thanks to a loophole granted by federal lawmakers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the nation’s immigration...
Beg-Knows America is a regular feature on CBS Mornings. Hosted by native Louisianan David Begnaud, the show’s title is a play on his Cajun French surname. Begnaud focuses his segment on human interest stories, profiling...
I tried to give Spike Lee’s new movie Highest 2 Lowest every possible chance to have a powerful impact — so much so that I deliberately avoided rewatching the source material, Akira Kurosawa’s landmark 1963...
Born in 1886, Yevgeni Alekseyevich Preobrazhensky was a Russian revolutionary from his teenage years. Like so many of that generation, he was eventually murdered in Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge, after playing a leading role in...
