Day: September 1, 2023
After Hurricane Idalia, Military Bases Return to Normal and National Guard Gets to Work
Military installations in Florida and up the Atlantic Coast are starting to return to normal after Hurricane Idalia tore through the southeastern U.S., but work for thousands of National Guardsmen on state orders is just beginning.
Burning tires and bridges: US residents ‘shocked’ by firm’s bitcoin-mining plan
Stronghold Digital Mining contends it is repurposing waste material, but those living near by are outraged by the proposalA crypto-mining company in Pennsylvania is seeking to burn tires to produce bitcoin, prompting an outcry from residents and enviro…
Is this legal?
I’m trying to cancel my contract with adt and I told them they no longer have permission to surveillance my property. They told me that they will surveillance my property until I pay them the termination money so I can’t go to a competitor. subm…
Rule allowing rail shipments of LNG will be put on hold to allow more study of safety concerns
A Trump-era rule allowing railroads to haul highly flammable liquefied natural gas will now be formally put on hold to allow more time to study the safety concerns related to transporting that fuel and other substances like hydrogen that must be kept a…
Trump told fraud probe he was too busy ‘saving millions of lives’ from ‘nuclear holocaust’ to run company
‘My son Eric is much more involved with it than I am. I’ve been doing other things,’ ex-president said of the Trump Organization in April deposition
Judge blocks Arkansas law requiring parental OK for minors to create social media accounts
A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts.
Activists prepare for yearlong battle over Nebraska private school funding law
Activists are declaring a victory this week as they fight a Republican-backed law allowing Nebraska taxpayer money to be used for private school tuition.
Novel ‘The Covenant of Water’ tells of a family in India haunted by a medical mystery
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with the author Abraham Verghese about his new novel The Covenant of Water in which a family in India is haunted by a medical mystery.
Amazon is wrong — a return-to-work mandate is about control
The data has spoken. Why aren’t executives listening about employee sentiments around return-to-office practices?