2019

Younger Black Voters to Their Parents: Break Up With Joe Biden, I’m Bored

HOUSTON — A groan erupted at a debate watch party at Texas Southern University last week as former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. got a question about slavery and racism and gave an answer about Venezuela and record players. But amid that exasperation, some students channeled their inner Beltway operatives and began a targeted

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Uber and Lyft Drivers Gain Labor Clout, With Help From an App

When California lawmakers passed a worker-protection bill essentially requiring Uber and Lyft to treat drivers as employees, it was thanks in part to a little-known group called Rideshare Drivers United. Uber and Lyft had hoped for a deal with organized labor exempting them from the measure, and the Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union

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Stephen Colbert Drops Savage Impression Of Sad Eric Waiting For Trump To Keep A Promise

“Thank God Trump never keeps his promises,” Colbert said. “Never has. In fact, Eric is still waiting by the front door to go to Disney World.”   Then, Colbert broke out an impersonation of a very dejected Eric Trump, still waiting for dad to bring him to Florida ― complete with his own Disney song:  REAL

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Scientists prepare for year-long expedition to Arctic center

Researchers from more than a dozen nations prepared Friday to launch the biggest and most complex expedition ever attempted in the central Arctic — a yearlong journey through the ice they hope will improve the scientific models that underpin our understanding of climate change. The 140-million euro ($158 million) expedition will see 600 scientists from

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