Arizona quietly suspended plans to require about 120,000 people to work, volunteer or go to school to receive Medicaid benefits, as courts have taken a dim view of similar mandates in other states. The decision is another setback to efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies in many Republican-led states to put conditions on […]
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Image caption Ahmed worked for Channel 4 from 2000 to 2011 BBC presenter Samira Ahmed is taking the BBC to an employment tribunal over alleged unequal pay. According to court listings, Ahmed’s case is due to be heard over five days from next Monday. The papers allege “failure to provide equal pay for equal value
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Charles Crooms used to install windshields at a bus manufacturing plant in Anniston, Alabama, where he earned about $13 per hour. The money beat the minimum wage of $7.25 in his state, but it wasn’t the sort of family-sustaining pay Crooms expected in auto production. He quit that job at New Flyer of America’s plant
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For almost three months, QAnon conspiracy theorists have been anxiously awaiting the return of 8chan, the defunct, extremist-friendly message board that’s integral to their far-right fringe movement. The site’s administrators have been scrambling under mounting pressure to bring it back online, but at each turn, they’ve encountered an unlikely adversary: 8chan’s own creator. As the
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It takes most of us longer than seven seconds just to get out of bed in the morning, but for Aries Susanti Rahayu, she’s probably already made it to work in that time. The Indonesian climber blew minds around the world over the weekend when she broke the world record for speed climbing and became
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WASHINGTON — President Trump may have reversed his decision to host world leaders at one of his own properties during next year’s Group of 7 summit at the urging of his fellow Republicans, but he hasn’t finished defending his right to do it in the first place. Mr. Trump on Monday dismissed what he called
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Some of the people rushing to emergency rooms thought the CBD vape they inhaled would help like a gentle medicine. Others puffed it for fun. What the vapors delivered instead was a jolt of synthetic marijuana, and with it an intense high of hallucinations and even seizures. More than 50 people around Salt Lake City
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As the daughter of a teacher, Sarah Michelle Gellar knows the important role educators play in children’s lives. The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star talked to HuffPost about parents’ relationships with teachers while promoting Lysol’s “Here for Healthy Schools” campaign — an initiative to equip classrooms with tools to fight germs, curb the spread of
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Call him the guardian of the Marvel galaxy. “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn Sunday again fended off criticism of Marvel superhero movies. “The Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola called the films “despicable” ― not to mention unenlightening and uninspiring ― at a film festival in France over the weekend, following similar critiques from fellow
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A temporary truce has put a end to fierce fighting in northern Syria, after Turkey launched an offensive on 9 October. Turkey says the move, which took place after a US troop withdrawal, aims to create a 32km (20-mile) ‘safe zone’ in areas of Kurdish control. The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool meets a bereaved mother, fleeing
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