As expected, a majority in the Senate voted against an additional 1.2 percent increase in the minimum wage on Tuesday. The BBB announced last week that it would vote against the law that regulated the increase, making it clear there would be no majority support.
Financier Ben Goldsmith is celebrating the birth of his fifth child with his wife, the model-turned-society caterer Jemima Jones, nearly five years after his daughter Iris died aged 15.
The Stranger's morning news roundup. by Hannah Krieg Seattle vibes coming in STRONG: I hope you got a chance to bask in the sun yesterday because Seattleites will have no such opportunity today, according to the forecast from Weather.com. This morning, expect cloudy skies and temperatures crawling from the high 40s to low 50s. At around 4 pm, you should start to see some showers that will carry on into Friday morning. I hope...
Another day, another act of Biden campaign propaganda. As we’ve seen day after day, ABC’s Good Morning America openly and unapologetically ate out of the hand of the Biden press office with a full report on the regime’s preferred topic of the day. On Tuesday, it was chief White House correspondent and chief Biden apple polisher Mary Bruce cheering Biden traveling to Florida to celebrate murdering children in the womb. A simple perusing of the NewsBusters tag for Bruce would show she’s a...
Another day, another act of Biden campaign propaganda. As we’ve seen day after day, ABC’s Good Morning America openly and unapologetically ate out of the hand of the Biden press office with a full report on the regime’s preferred topic of the day. On Tuesday, it was chief White House correspondent and chief Biden apple polisher Mary Bruce cheering Biden traveling to Florida to celebrate murdering children in the womb. A simple perusing of the NewsBusters tag for Bruce would show she’s a...
Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D – Burbank) led efforts this week to submit a letter to the White House urging President Biden to address the exclusion of Armenian Americans from the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) checkbox in the U.S. census. “I am deeply concerned that hundreds of thousands of Armenian Americans were excluded …
Following the EDSA Revolution in 1986, Saguisag became the spokesperson of former President Corazon Aquino.
(1st UPDATE) Saguisag's family says Rene's spirit 'will continue to inspire us to strive for a more just world'
Tallahassee - Bob Graham, a two-term Florida governor who went on to serve in the U.S. Senate and was known for his work days across the state, died Tuesday at age 87, his family announced.
In 2007, towards the end of the Bush regime, amendments to legislation were passed that raised the minimum wage from $5.85/hour in the middle of 2007 to $7.25/hour in July 2009 where, as of today, it remains unchanged. Many states require employers to pay a higher minimum wage. However, as of January 1, 2024, some 13 states, including workers’ More
A Corby man tragically took his own life during his first time in prison after he was assessed as needing specialist psychiatric assessment. Ross Springham died in hospital on March 20, 2021, four days after he was discovered in his cell with a ligature around his neck. He was just 29. Now an investigation into his death has said that there were deficiencies in the suicide monitoring process at HMP Wandsworth. Mr Springham, a much-loved Corby brother, son and father-of-two, was taken into...
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Sunday gave a strong indication that it would press for the inclusion of a clause which would prescribe sanctions for governors and local government administrators who failed to implement the new minimum wage. The National Treasurer of the NLC, Hakeem Ambali, who disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent Read More