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New York City was once a minimum wage leader but now lags behind.
Minimum hourly wages in 23 US states will rise from January 1, 2020, to account for cost ofliving changes and reach $15 an hour, reports said. This comes as inflation hit a 40-year high this year, leaving families struggling to keep up with rising costs. Many workers in the states with the minimum wage are…
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North Korea’s missile test over Japan is something you need to know.
North Korea’s recent barrage of missile launches were the “simulated use of tactical battlefield nuclear weapons” to “hit and wipe out” potential South Korean and US targets, the state media reported on Monday. It was the highest number of North Korean short-range missiles fired in a single day, and included a ballistic missile that landed…
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We still do not know what we learned today in the Idaho students murder case.
A suspect was arrested in connection with the murder of four students at the University of Idaho in US’ Idaho. The suspect was taken into custody by FBI and Pennsylvania State Police at a university campus in the Pocono Mountains. The students were shot dead at their dormitories in December and police are trying to…
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The year ends with Biden giving 6 full pardons.
US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of six people, including a 66-year-old man, who were convicted of federal drugs and alcohol crimes. Gary Parks Davis was sentenced to 18 months in prison for conducting a cocaine transaction using a Telephone. A 50-year-old California man pleaded guilty to a marijuana trafficking charge at the…
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Four college students were killed in Moscow, Idaho.
A suspect has been arrested in the killings of four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed to death in November. Police said they believed it to be a targeted attack due to the evidence found at the scene and the fact that two people survived. The accused attended a nearby university that’s close…
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Markets have been their worst year since 2008.
Energy sector has been the best-performing area of the global stock market in 2022, having risen 60% so far, according to Bloomberg data. IBM and Lockheed Martin are the only two of the S&P 500 companies that were worth more than the average company at the start of the year. Generac Holdings is the worst…
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It was a lucky break that the U.S. electric grid didn’t break.
A week-long outage in several US states including California, Georgia and Texas was caused by a shooting at two power substations. Tens of thousands of people were off the grid for weeks due to a shooting attack on one of the substations. Several attacks have been reported on the US power grid in recent years.
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The 4 dead University of Idaho students were near the campus.
Four US college students were stabbed to death at a rented home near campus last month, the university said on Wednesday. A 20-year-old man has been charged with four counts of second-degree murder in the case. “Investigators have not been able to verify or identify a stalker after reviewing hundreds of pieces of information,” police…
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Thousands of convictions for marijuana possession were pardoned by Biden.
US President Joe Biden has pardoned six people, including a 73-year-old who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for marijuana possession at the age of 23. Edward Lincoln De Coito III pleaded guilty to a charge relating to a marijuana grow house. He had become active in their communities following their release, the White…
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The news that the jobs report left investors confident of another big rate increase sent stocks tumbling.
US Federal Reserve’s Chairman Jerome Powell said that the time for moderating the pace of rate increases may come “as soon as the December meeting”. The Fed has increased its benchmark lending rate a record 6 times this year in an attempt to keep inflation from going as high as it did this summer.
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The long stock market rally came to an end.
The US S&P 500 lost nearly 10% of its value in 2018, its biggest single-year loss since 2013, due to inflation, according to data from Bloomberg. The index rose more than 5% in the last four years, but lost over 30% of its value this year, the report stated. The index has lost nearly 40%…
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The US believes the Chinese intercept could have caused an air collision.
US General Mark Milley ordered a comprehensive review of military interactions with China over the last five years as concerns about China’s assertive behaviour in the Indo-Pacific region increase, CNN reported. The General wants to gain a detailed understanding of interactions between the two militaries, especially if they Could be considered “unsafe” or “unprofessional” due…
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This is what it would mean if retirement savings changes take effect.
The US government has proposed a way to increase workplace retirement savings by forcing employers to enrol employees in workplace plans. The ‘Secure 2.0’ provision would require employers to set a default contribution rate of at least 3% for the employee and an automatic contribution escalation of 1% per year up to a maximum contribution…
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The Supreme Court allowed policy to remain in effect despite legal challenges, leaving migrants in El Paso with uncertainty.
US Supreme Court has agreed to decide in February whether 19 states that oppose the Title 42 immigration policy should be allowed to intervene in defence of it in lower courts. Title 42 allows asylum seekers who cross the border without permission to stay in the United States. Earlier, the Trump administration had said it…
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Is Wall Street solely responsible for the affordable housing crisis?
Home prices in the US are falling due to high interest rates and a slowdown in new home construction amid the coronavirus pandemic. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate fell to 3.10% last week, down from 3.10% a year ago, according to mortgage brokerage firm Freddie Mac. However, the average rate has surged over 100…
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A huge winter storm is bringing dangerous weather conditions and tornadoes.
Parts of the US will be under winter storm warning as a strengthening storm will bring more than a foot of snow to the Midwest. Chicago, Kansas City, St Louis, Twin Cities and Detroit are under winter storm warnings for heavy snow and near blizzard conditions. Travel is likely to be “very difficult or impossible”…
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The person whofied Trump in Arizona is now a candidate for governor.
Lake Township Clerk Korinda Winkelmann told state authorities investigating voting machine breaches that she turned over a tabulator and a laptop computer that served as a poll book to an unnamed person who claimed to be an investigator conducting an audit of the election. In August, Winkelmann told other clerks in Michigan to “uphold election…
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Is it possible to go back to my regular job?
TV anchor Mark Woodley woke up five hours earlier than usual to report for his first-ever hit air show on the radio, covering Iowa’s winter storm. “It’s a very serious storm,” Woodley said, and stressed the importance of “making sure people know what they need to do to be safe. “I’m pretty sure, Ryan, you…
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Thousands of academics in California are on strike.
Graduate student employees at the University of California, San Francisco (UC San Francisco) have agreed to vote on a tentative agreement that would end their strike for higher pay and benefits. The workers, who have been on strike for 40 days, voted in favour of the agreement on Friday. The workers are members of the…
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The climate-change content in US university textbooks has been reduced.
The amount of information about climate change has increased compared to the amount of space dedicated to solutions in introductory biology textbooks from the last 50 years, according to a study. The study also found that the median position of sections about climate change moved from the last 15% of pages in the 1970s to…
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Georgetown University’s prison reform initiative hiring Adnan Syed.
Syed Adnan, an Indian-origin man who was released from prison after being wrongly convicted of a murder, is working for the Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) at Georgetown University. Adnan was freed earlier this year after a reinvestigation revealed that two alternate suspects were involved in the murder of Hae Min Lee. Adnan was sentenced…
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A large number of migrants end up in El Paso after a long journey.
The US city of El Paso said over 2,500 migrants have come to the city each day in the past week. “We wanted to make sure that we were able to get everyone who was on the street off the streets before this cold weather hits,” Mario D’Agostino, deputy city manager in El Paso, said.…
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Special counsel Durham has spent over $6 million on the Trump-Russia probe.
FBI agent Alexander Auten, who was questioned by Special Counsel John Durham in connection with the 2016 Russia probe, has said that he “stands by his testimony”. Durham had accused Auten of cherry-picking information from a memo written by Auten to the Senate Judiciary Committee and Justice Department inspector general. Auten was recommended for suspension…
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The Elevator-Pitch Horror is here to stay.
Hollywood producer Adam McKay, on being asked about his company’s production budget, said, “I don’t know what it was.” McKay, who has produced films such as ‘Terminator: Salvation’ and ‘The Mummy’, added, “I didn’t make a film for money…[but] I had to make a film that wouldn’t hurt anyone’s feelings. So it didn’t hurt me.”
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The 5 officers were charged with murder after a Black man in Louisiana died in their custody.
Five officers in the US have been indicted for the beating death of Ronald Greene, a black man, in 2019 after a car crash. One of the officers was shown on body-camera video hitting Greene in the head and later boasting about beating him, according to investigators. State police commanders told investigators to not arrest…