Teamsters union workers, responsible for distributing 60 percent of produce in New York City, are demanding a $1 raise.

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The flag over the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, hung at half-staff Sunday. Set atop a hill overlooking the Susquehanna River, the entrance was guarded by police in riot gear. Lower down, at the street level, intersections were blocked by law enforcement vehicles. On each of the Capitol’s four sides, camouflaged National Guardsmen in masks clutched rifles to their chests.

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Nelson Sanchez-Perez, 17, and Joshua Jurado, 19, are charged with first-degree murder and other charges in connection with the 16-year-old's death.

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On Wednesday, January 13 — the same day that the University of Massachusetts at Amherst released the results of an investigation into the romantic life of Alex Morse, finding no wrongdoing — the Cambridge Democratic City Committee met to debate a resolution brought forward by a local ward condemning the party for its handling of the situation.It did not go well.

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Pushing Party for Alex Morse Accountability, Mass. Democrat Is Called “F****t”

On January 13, the Cambridge Democratic City Committee met to discuss a resolution calling for the resignation of Massachusetts Democratic Party Chair Gus Bickford. The resolution was an attempt to reckon with the state party’s complicity last summer in the release of allegations against Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse — who was running against U.S. Rep.

Deconstructed: Dems Reckon with Homophobia in the Party

It wasn’t long after the incoming Biden administration announced its nominees for key science policy posts that Twitter began to celebrate with #ScienceIsBack. Among those using the hashtag was Eric Lander, a mathematician and molecular biologist who played a lead role in mapping the human genome, and whom Joe Biden had just nominated to be director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Will Bringing Science Back to the White House Reinvigorate Forensics Reform?

Attendees including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., listen during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2021. 
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Pity the art directors, the stylists, and the stage managers. So much effort, taste, strategy, and money went into planning the semiotics of Joe Biden’s inauguration.

The Meaning of the Mittens: Five Possibilities

Before Donald Trump began his run for president, there was a war against journalism in the United States. President George W. Bush used the Espionage Act and sought to jail reporters who refused to give up their sources, not to mention killing journalists in war zones.

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Biden Should End Espionage Act Prosecutions of Whistleblowers and Journalists

A left-wing activist who told Fox News last week that he’d followed a pro-Trump mob into the Capitol in order to "document" the siege is now the subject of a criminal complaint in connection with his alleged participation, according to the Justice Department.



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