Trump Official Who Wants Data Centers on Public Lands Has Tens of Millions Invested...
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is heavily invested in the AI industry, is leading the charge to allow tech companies to build data centers on the public lands he oversees.
Will America reactivate its decency gene, closing the spigot of scorched-earth MAGA schemes?
Only a midterm rout turns back the suicidal, corruption-laden Trump bulldozer, ploughing ahead (crypto, emoluments, inflation, blackmail, AI) to enrich the rich by impoverishing the poor
Bird flu keeps spreading on a Utah mink farm as officials hold off on...
Seven mink have tested positive on C&T Fenn Farms, and no federal rules cover sick mink, ProPublica reports; Utah has issued a verbal hold instead of a formal quarantine.
US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Nearly 4,000 Brigham nurses set open-ended strike for Oct. 14, the largest in Massachusetts...
Mass General Brigham says it has contracted 1,300 temporary nurses, while the union says the system conditioned further talks on a multi-year pay freeze
Three lawsuits seek to bar armed federal agents from polling places
Plaintiffs include Denver, Common Cause and Democratic Party committees. DHS says no polling place policy exists.
Orange County asks state labor board to step in as Teamsters strike disrupts landfills
The county says about 465 striking workers obstructed three landfills, while the union says its picketing is lawful and no citations were issued
Mahmoud Khalil asks Supreme Court to decide whether federal courts can review his detention
Justice Alito twice extended the filing deadline, and the full Third Circuit declined to rehear the case by a single vote.
Newsom asks court to back clemency for 382 of 548 on death row
Newsom asked the state Supreme Court to recommend clemency by year's end for 382 of the 548 condemned people, who each have more than one felony conviction.
EPA sets Dec. 31 end date for its archive of past agency records
The archive holds tens of thousands of documents dating to the 1990s; the agency says historical material will remain in “snapshot collections.”