1+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1261+ words) Job losses among younger workers in Australia pushed up the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate from 4. 3 percent in March to an almost five-year high of 4. 5 percent in April, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). These official results, while understating…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1359+ words) Either the US stock market has entered a kind of financial heaven where earthly economic laws no longer apply, or the conditions are being created for a crash and a consequent financial crisis of major proportions. The market boosters adhere…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago  (865+ words) New Zealand's right-wing coalition government is sharply accelerating its assault on the working class, in order to protect the wealth of the super-rich and to fund a major increase in the size of the military in preparation for war. That…...

2+ hour, 12+ min ago  (732+ words) On May 20, Perry County, Tennessee agreed to pay $835, 000 to Larry Bushart, a 61-year-old retired law enforcement officer, to settle a federal civil-rights lawsuit alleging that his arrest and 37-day detention over a Facebook meme critical of Donald Trump and Charlie…...

3+ hour, 45+ min ago  (707+ words) The prosecution's case centered on an alleged conspiracy orchestrated by fugitive Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden. US officials had placed a $5 million bounty on bin Laden, who was also listed as a co-defendant. Efforts to capture the suspected mastermind failed,…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago  (743+ words) In the span of six days, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has vetoed two significant pieces of legislation passed by the Democratic majority in the state legislature'blocking the expansion of public-sector collective bargaining rights and stripping protections against ICE arrests at…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago  (604+ words) School districts across Texas are carrying out layoffs and cutting budgets and positions. At least 34 Texas public school campuses are slated for closure or consolidation through 2029 in the Independent School Districts (ISDs), while more than 800 education positions or salaries are…...

3+ hour, 5+ min ago  (1181+ words) As residents of West Lafayette, Indiana continue their fight to stop the construction of the SK Hynix microchip factory and reverse the rezoning of their neighborhood, local politicians are moving swiftly to assist the South Korean-based semiconductor corporation and its…...

3+ hour, 44+ min ago  (538+ words) Leroy Mc Gill was executed by lethal injection in Arizona on May 20. Tony Carruthers was brought to Tennessee's death chamber on May 21, where the execution was called off when prison personnel could not complete the required intravenous access. Also on…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (1364+ words) Transit workers: Tell us what you think about the end of the strike by filling out the form below. All submissions will be kept anonymous. In a board meeting Wednesday, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) officials boasted that a new tentative…...