A Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain was hit with a lawsuit by the Biden administration at the same time the president stopped by one of their locations on the campaign trail. Sheetz is being accused of racial discrimination by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). THE EEOC claims that the company's hiring practices discriminated against minority applicants, as reported by the Associated Press. The lawsuit was filed the same day Biden cheerfully stopped by a Pittsburgh...
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden made a campaign stop at a Pittsburgh convenience store, the same day that the Biden administration announced a lawsuit against the Pennsyvania-based chain. Sheetz is a privately held family-run company with over 23,000 employees. During his visit, Biden purchased snacks and took photos with customers and employees
In the shadows of our Nation, a grim reality persists. Tens of thousands of Hispanic migrant children in the U.S. have fallen prey to the depraved clutches of human traffickers, their futures sold for profit and power in a $150 billion-a-year industry, with an administration complicit in putting them in what amounts to chains of modern-day slavery.
When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) emerged onto the steps of Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library on Wednesday afternoon, he was greeted with a deafening sound: hundreds of booing students. Johnson had just emerged from meetings with Jewish students at the university to discuss what he, other Republicans, and some Democrats allege is rising antisemitism on campuses […]
No day demonstrated the extreme asymmetry of the unfolding campaign more than Tuesday.
Tallahassee - President Joe Biden is traveling to Tampa Tuesday as he shows his support for abortion rights — an issue Democratic party leaders believe will help their ticket up and down the ballot in November.
A California man is suing streaming platform Plex, claiming the company secretly shares viewing data with Facebook in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
POTTSVILLE, SCHUYLKILL COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Schuylkill County will pay $1.7 million as part of a settlement in a sexual harassment and assault lawsuit against a former commissioner. The lawsuit was filed in 2021 claiming Commissioner George F. Halcovage Jr. sexually harassed and assaulted four county workers. The settlement unanimously approved by the current board of []
One voter, who has asked to remain anonymous, contacted the Local Democracy Reporter Service to say that she had received two postal votes at her home in Norfolk Park. She said: “I have a postal vote, the documents arrived yesterday. I received an identical batch today so I’ve phoned the helpline and the person I spoke to indicated that this appears to be an issue with Manor ward – and she’s taken my number so she can call me back with advice. “I’m really concerned from a voter integrity/fraud...
Oura on Monday announced that its smart ring will be available in select Target stores in the U.S. The deal, which also brings the wearable to the retailer’s site, follows similar announcements with Amazon in March and Best Buy last April. It’s a good bit of validation for a company that almost singlehandedly legitimatized the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Attorney and non-profit founder Julia Olson calls appeals court ruling on lawsuit filed by 21 young people ‘tragic and unjust’A federal appeals court on Wednesday evening granted the Biden administration’s request to strike down a landmark federal youth climate case, outraging climate advocates.“This is a tragic and unjust ruling,” said Julia Olson, attorney and founder of Our Children’s Trust, the non-profit law firm that brought the suit. Continue reading
Former president rallied in Wisconsin during a break from his criminal trial in New York.