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A federal appeals court has reinstated a challenge to Seattle's first-in-the-nation law allowing drivers of ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to unionize. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the measure is subject to challenge under federal antitrust law, and it sent the case back to U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle to determine whether it is, in fact, impermissible.
The Intercept reported Friday that state Sen. Robert Karnes was a longtime union opponent, and in March expressed pessimism about the political impact the largest teacher's strike in the country would have. "I can't say that it will have zero effect," Karnes told the Charleston Gazette-Mail during the strike , "but I don't think it'll have any significant effect because, more often than not, they probably weren't voting on the Republican side of the aisle anyways."
Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit following revelations it collects text messages and phone calls via its smartphone apps on Android devices. The social network giant's actions "presents several wrongs, including a consumer bait-and-switch, an invasion of privacy, wrongful monitoring of minors and potential attacks on privileged communications" such as those between attorneys and clients or doctors and patients, the lawsuit alleges.
In a story May 10 about Environmental Protect Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's proposals for enforcing the Clean Air Act, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Rep. Pete Olson was a Democrat. He is a Republican.
Executives from 10 auto companies will meet with President Donald Trump and cabinet officials on Friday to discuss the administration's plan to reduce gas mileage and pollution requirements enacted during the Obama administration. The auto industry wants to relax the standards, but not so much that they provoke a legal fight with California, which has power to impose its own stricter tailpipe pollution limits.
Meghan McCain, the daughter of six-term Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, once again had to use her platform as a host of ABC's The View to defend her father, who is currently under treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer. Thursday, multiple media reports said White House communications staffer Kelly Sadler dismissed concerns about McCain 's opposition to CIA nominee Gina Haspel, saying, "It doesn't matter, he's dying anyway."
White House chief of staff John Kelly is being called a racist for claiming undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. "don't have skills" and would not "integrate well" into American society. Kelly made a series of cringeworthy claims when asked to justify the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy of separating undocumented children from their parents.
CNN's Chris Cuomo suggested on Friday that the United States is to blame for Iran's latest round of missile strikes on Israel. Cuomo asked State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert during a Friday morning interview if she thought pulling out of the Iran Deal could have provoked Iran.
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson called his company's decision to hire Donald Trump's personal lawyer a "big mistake." AT&T's top lobbyist is stepping down.
Elon Musk gave the world a sneak peak of his developing underground tunnel scheduled to be open to the Los Angeles public in "a few months," the LA Times reports . Musk posted a video of the tunnel to his Instagram page Thursday night with the caption, "First Boring Company tunnel under LA almost done! Pending final regulatory approvals, we will be offering free rides to the public in a few months."
President Donald Trump is set to unveil his long-awaited plan for reducing drug prices after more than a year of bold promises to tackle pharmacy costs that are squeezing millions of Americans. But the strategy to be outlined in a speech Friday will not include a key Trump campaign pledge to use the massive buying power of the federal government's Medicare program to directly negotiate lower drug prices for seniors.
As coal and nuclear plants across the country continue to falter, members of President Donald Trump's administration are weighing solutions that can save jobs without wreaking havoc on the grid. The U.S. energy industry is rapidly evolving.
President Trump commemorated National Military Spouse Day on Thursday, calling the soldiers' spouses in the room "an inspiration to us all." "We ask so much of our military spouses: Frequent moves; heartbreaking separations; parenting alone; incomplete celebrations; and weeks, months, and sometimes years of waiting for a loved one's safe return from harm's way.
The city of Cleveland offered to give Amazon and its employees at least $120 million in benefits if the tech giant chose them as its location for the highly-anticipated second headquarters. Those incentives include discounted public transit fares for Amazon workers, which could be only part of the offering since Cleveland.com and local station WKYC were only given 27 pages of the full pitch.
S. B. Shine's new book PAIN AWAITS is aptly titled since it reflects the pain that the American government, economy, and people are experiencing as we begin to fear that, like the Roman Empire, we are in our decline and fall. Shine discusses many of the causes of this situation, ranging from illegal immigration and government overspending to the drug culture and a lack of strong family values in the younger generations, but he does not dwell on the problems so much as the solutions.
Why am I not surprised that Trump's GOP sycophants and cronies will most likely throw him under the wheels of the bus if he continues to fire nasty verbiage in Robert Mueller's direction? This reality show mastermind, who is the first U.S. President caught up inside an exploding fireworks factory of salacious scandal with none other than a porn queen, has all the grace of a Louisiana cottonmouth. But it seems Trump's big wish is to go down in history as a great military leader, and he plans to utilize "his generals" to grow these laurels for himself.
Wednesday President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the CIA Gina Haspel had a testy exchange with Sen. Kamala Harris at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. HARRIS: Thank you.
The former attorney general of the state of New York allegedly had a pattern of slapping and choking women with whom he was intimate. He also spat at them, demanded threesomes, insulted them, threatened them and called one his "brown slave," according to recent accusations.