Negotiations are underway between Starbucks and union workers. Reuters reports: “Starbucks held contract negotiations with the Workers United union over a two-day session in Atlanta, both the parties said on Friday, with plans to meet again in late May. The coffee chain and Workers United, that represents Starbucks workers in the United States, began negotiations… Source
Thousands of Colombians took to the streets Sunday in the latest rebuke of leftist President Gustavo Petro's reform agenda. The demonstrations took place in several cities, including the capital. Protesters filled Bolivar Plaza outside the presidential palace in Bogota. While protests have been a constant since the former leftist guerrilla
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MANHATTAN—For days, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik declined to clear out the unsanctioned "Gaza Solidarity" encampment in favor of negotiations with student protest leaders. Now, she says those negotiations brought no agreement and is asking students to "voluntarily" leave the encampment.
Thousands of Colombians took to the streets Sunday in the latest rebuke of leftist President Gustavo Petro’s reform agenda.
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It is important that all new agreements with partners that are already established to strengthen our air defense, every initiative of friends of Ukraine to help, in particular, with the search and supply of Patriots, is implemented as soon as possible.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spoke with his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, about cooperating on migration policy as the U.S. leader continues to deliberate whether to take executive action that would crack down on the number of migrants arriving at the southern U.S. border. The call occurred on Sunday at Biden’s request, […]
It's time to dig deep into this week's receptacle of garbage-y gossip! by Elinor Jones Hello, Trash Pandas, and welcome to another edition of The Trash Report. I've had some serious blues lately and I'm not totally sure why. The likely culprits are: 1) it felt like spring for a second and I opened up my light receptors, but then the weather turned grey again so I absorbed melancholy, or 2) the times we live in, generally. ¿Por...
Fifty-two percent of registered voters in swing states said they did not trust Harris to assume the duties of the president. Harris spent the first part of 2024 reassuring voters she was ready to be president if Biden was unable to perform his duties. The advanced ages of both Trump and Biden sparks more voter interest in who will be the vice president
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Today on TAP: Clamping down on protesters predictably stirs them up.