Month: April 2019

President Donald Trump, alongside his three children and their private business entity, the Trump Organization, filed a lawsuit Monday to prevent the release of bank documents to congressional committees. The federal suit was filed in Manhattan against Deutsche Bank and Capital One in an attempt to block the financial institutions from complying with congressional subpoenas…

It’s one of the most contentious questions in the world of work these days: Who do Uber drivers and others in the gig economy really work for? In the eyes of the Trump administration, they work for themselves. The Labor Department announced Monday it had determined such workers are not employees but independent contractors, and…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s decades-long discussion about building a new capital has inched forward after President Joko Widodo on Monday approved a long-term plan for the government to abandon overcrowded, sinking and polluted Jakarta. Widodo decided at a special Cabinet meeting to move the capital outside of Indonesia’s most populous island, Java, said Planning…

A public service announcement in which a young girl teaches active shooter drills to adults has gone viral. March For Our Lives, the anti-gun violence movement, released the video captioned #GenerationLockdown on Monday. “If there was an active shooter, you would all be dead,” the youngster named Kayleigh told employees at a California office.  Kayleigh…

IT staffing and recruiting company Cynet Systems has finally apologized for its racist job listing that Twitter users spotted last week. The otherwise fairly standard posting appeared on various sites, including LinkedIn, and began by stipulating that the job candidate be “Preferably Caucasian.”  It should be obvious, but employment discrimination on the basis of race…

President Donald Trump hit a new milestone on Monday. The Washington Post reported that he had officially made 10,000 false or misleading claims since taking office in January 2017. And a couple of his most persistent Twitter critics have joined forces to mock him about it.  “Star Wars” icon Mark Hamill shared a tweet from…

This might be one of the scariest jobs in public works.  Last week, the California Department of Transportation shared a video of its road crews plowing Highway 120, just outside Yosemite National Park, after a winter of heavy snows. The drone footage showed plows working the narrow road with an avalanche-prone cliff on one side…

DETROIT (AP) — Judge Damon J. Keith, a grandson of slaves and figure in the civil rights movement who as a federal judge was sued by President Richard Nixon over a ruling against warrantless wiretaps, died Sunday. He was 96. Keith died in Detroit, the city where the prominent lawyer was appointed in 1967 to…

A Brigham Young University valedictorian came out as gay in a powerful commencement speech that celebrated personal victories for classmates ― and his own. Matty Easton said he persevered through battles with his creator over his identity. “It was in these quiet moments of pain and confusion that I felt another triumph, that of coming…

WESTEROS — Jorah Mormont, known as Jorah the Andal by the Dothraki, King of the friend zone by others, and sometimes by the alias Iain Glen, died Sunday protecting Daenerys Targaryen during a supposed skirmish with the undead in what is being called the Battle of Winterfell. Son of the late former Night’s Watch commander…