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House Democrats’ have secured the inclusion of four weeks’ of federal paid medical and family leave in their $1.75 trillion compromise reconciliation bill, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.) announced Nov. 3. In a statement, the Massachusetts Democrat said the “historic” provisions had both been included as a part of the Build Back Better Act, as […]

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced on Wednesday that paid leave will be included in the Democrats’ reconciliation bill after having been excluded earlier in a compromise draft of the legislation. In a “Dear Colleague” letter, Pelosi discussed the progress made in advancing the bill over the past week. She said of the […]

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory’s contracted operator in Tennessee from terminating or placing on unpaid leave its workers who are exempted from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Days after six employees filed a lawsuit against the University of Tennessee-Battelle (UT-Battelle), District Judge Charles Atchley in Knoxville issued a temporary […]

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered United Airlines not to place workers seeking an exemption to the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on unpaid leave. The temporary ruling was issued by U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman so workers who filed for an exemption aren’t unduly harmed before he can hear oral arguments in the case. Six […]

MOSCOW—Russia’s ambassador to the United States said Washington had asked 24 Russian diplomats to leave the country by Sept. 3 after their visas expire, heightening tensions between the two countries. In an interview with the National Interest magazine published on Sunday, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov did not say whether the U.S. action was prompted by a […]

A new poll says three out of five young people in Hong Kong want to leave the city. This comes as Hong Kong’s autonomy becomes more and more uncertain. The poll was conducted by the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and was released last Thursday. It surveyed about 800 Hongkongers, ages 15 to 30.

A Starbucks barista asked a group of Tempe, Arizona, cops to leave a store on the Fourth of July because a customer said they felt unsafe in the officers’ presence.

A poll by one of Guatemala’s largest newspapers found a startling number of its citizens expressed a desire to leave the country, with the U.S. being the destination of choice for most of them.