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Supreme Court rules for Starbucks in union case over terminated ‘Memphis Seven’
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Supreme Court rules for Starbucks in union case over terminated ‘Memphis Seven’

By ZACH SCHONFELD | The Hill The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed a lower court’s ruling ordering Starbucks to reinstate seven Memphis-based employees terminated amid a unionization drive.  The decision makes it more difficult to immediately block alleged unfair labor practices as they are litigated in a sometimes years-long administrative process. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion on behalf of eight justices, while Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson partially dissented.  The case arose from the “Memphis Seven,” seven Starbucks employees who were terminated in 2022 during a unionization effort. The employees had publicly posted a letter addressed to the company’s CEO and sat down in the store with a television news crew to discuss the...
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House GOP holds AG Garland in contempt of Congress over withholding Hur’s Biden tapes
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House GOP holds AG Garland in contempt of Congress over withholding Hur’s Biden tapes

bY JORDAIN CARNEY | Politico House Republicans voted on Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress — dramatically escalating their fight with the Justice Department. There was lingering skepticism just hours before the 216-207 vote about whether GOP leaders would be able to lock down the near unity required. Ultimately, nearly every Republican voted to take the largely symbolic step, which refers the attorney general to the DOJ for prosecution, with Democrats united in opposition. Only Ohio Rep. David Joyce voted against it on the Republican side. “As a former prosecutor, I cannot in good conscience support a resolution that would further politicize our judicial system to score political points. The American people expect Congress to work for the...
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Sloan: In Mexico, don’t expect much to change with new President
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Sloan: In Mexico, don’t expect much to change with new President

By Kelly Sloan | Contributing Columnist, Rocky Mountain Voice You may have missed it, but at the beginning of this month Mexico elected a new President. By which to say they elected an extension of their previous one.  Claudia Sheinbaum, former mayor of Mexico City, won the election in what can only be described as a landslide for the ruling left-wing Morena Party. Sheinbaum happens to be Mexico’s first female President (it’s first Jewish one too, though it seems she likes to keep her Jewishness rather suppressed unless politically convenient.) More importantly, she is a protégé of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador known somewhat affectionately as “AMLO”. Both are socialists, after a fashion, and it is not expected that President Sheinbaum will stray much from the pol...
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Fed holds interest rates at 23-year high as inflation hits plateau
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Fed holds interest rates at 23-year high as inflation hits plateau

By TAYLOR GIORNO  | The Hill The Federal Reserve held interest rates at a 23-year high Wednesday as its battle to bring down inflation drags deeper into 2024. The announcement follows a two-day meeting of the central bank’s monetary policy committee, which raised borrowing rates from near zero in March 2022 to a range of 5.25 percent to 5.5 percent as pandemic-induced inflation skyrocketed. While inflation has dropped drastically from its 9 percent peak two years ago, the Fed has expressed concern that the economy is still too hot, the labor market is still too strong and prices are still rising too fast to start cutting rates. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
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Hunter Biden found guilty on all counts by Delaware jury in gun trial
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Hunter Biden found guilty on all counts by Delaware jury in gun trial

By JEFF MORDOCK | The Washington Times A federal jury convicted Hunter Biden Tuesday of three felony counts stemming from the purchase of a gun in October 2018 while in the throes of a crack addiction, making him the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime. The panel of six men and six women, all Delaware residents, deliberated for three hours over two days before rendering the guilty verdict which could have political implications for President Biden. Republicans have sought to tie his son’s legal problems to him in the midst of a tough reelection campaign against former President Donald Trump. The defendant’s wife Melissa and his uncle, James Biden, were in the courtroom when the verdict was announced. First lady Jill Biden, who attended most of the weeklon...
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Hunter Biden won’t testify, defense rests in federal gun trial
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Hunter Biden won’t testify, defense rests in federal gun trial

By JEFF MORDOCK | The Washington Times Hunter Biden decided not to testify Monday in his federal gun trial, moving the case closer to the jury that will decide whether the president’s son is guilty of lying about his drug addiction when he purchased the firearm. Defense lawyer Abbe Lowell told the court that the defense rests, one week after the trial began. Prosecutors are calling one rebuttal witness before closing arguments will begin. Defense attorneys rested their case after calling three witnesses over a span of roughly three hours, including Naomi Biden, the daughter of Hunter Biden and the president’s granddaughter. The other two witnesses were employees of the store where Hunter Biden purchased a Colt Revolver in October 2018. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIME...
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Feds send millions of taxpayer dollars to the Taliban
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Feds send millions of taxpayer dollars to the Taliban

By Casey Harper | The Center Square After two decades at war with the Taliban, the U.S. government is now sending millions of taxpayer dollars to the terrorist group. The Taliban resumed power in Afghanistan immediately after the chaotic and deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops earlier in the Biden administration. A recently released federal watchdog report shows that the U.S. government has sent at least $11 million to the Taliban since the 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops. But experts and even the federal watchdog estimate the number is much higher. "The U.S. government has continued to be the largest international donor supporting the Afghan people since the former Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban returned to power in August 2021," the federal watchdog, SIGAR, wrote in ...
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Trump says death sentences for dealers will solve U.S. drug problem
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Trump says death sentences for dealers will solve U.S. drug problem

By Brett Rowland | The Center Square Former President Donald Trump said soft sentences for drug dealers have helped fuel fentanyl overdose deaths in the U.S.  Trump, 77, is running against President Joe Biden in the presidential election this November.  "So many are dying where they think they're getting something and going to have a little fun on a Friday night and all of sudden their dead," Trump said on Fox News.  "You'll never really solve the drug problem unless you do what other countries do – and that's the death penalty for drug dealers," Trump said during the interview. "A drug dealer on average will kill, during that person's life, 500 people. Unless you have a death penalty. Right now, they don't even get charged with anything." READ THE FULL STORY ...
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Shafer: Here’s what the shakeup at the Washington Post really means
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Shafer: Here’s what the shakeup at the Washington Post really means

By JACK SHAFER | The Washington Times Like the owner’s manual that sends you searching YouTube for additional and useable instructions, Washington Post Publisher and CEO Sir William Lewis’ 900-word memo to his staff, emailed Sunday night, perplexes more than it enlightens. The headline news, of course, is simple enough: Lewis showed the door to Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, installed just three years ago by previous publisher Fred Ryan, who left last year after a bit of turbulence of his own. In her place, Lewis recruited two long-time former colleagues to actually produce the paper, Matt Murray and by year’s end, Robert Winnett. Beyond that, the Lewis memo fails to illuminate the paper’s new path. Like all reorg charts, the ...
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Prices at McDonald’s are up, but fast-food giant wants consumers to know by how much
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National, The Street

Prices at McDonald’s are up, but fast-food giant wants consumers to know by how much

By Daniel Kline | The Street Perception is not reality and McDonald's  (MCD)  has faced some of the same narrative problems (perhaps without the political overtones) that the gasoline industry has. Addressing the issue, McDonald's President Joe Erlinger wrote an open letter to the chain's customers. McDonald's has faced a situation similar to that of gasoline prices, after a picture of an $18 Big Mac meal went viral. That image was real — but it's also an outlier.  "Recently, we have seen viral social posts and poorly sourced reports that McDonald’s has raised prices significantly beyond inflationary rates. This is inaccurate," Erlinger wrote.  "And for a brand that proudly serves nearly 90% of the U.S. population every year, we feel a responsibility to...
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