Workers to get $55M after Michigan agency took back pandemic unemployment aid The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency has agreed to a $55 million settlement after it demanded benefits back from workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. 04/30/2024 - 10:07 am | View Link
Northwest Indiana counties have three of the seven highest unemployment rates statewide even as joblessless dips Unemployment dipped across most of Northwest Indiana in March, but Lake County continued to have the highest unemployment rate in the state. 04/29/2024 - 11:15 am | View Link
Michigan's unemployment agency settles lawsuit for $55 million, will make changes Many of the claimants received benefits through a federal program created for those not typically covered by traditional unemployment insurance. 04/29/2024 - 9:19 am | View Link
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Back in Poland, 20 years after EU accession Twenty years ago this week, on 1 May 2004, 10 new member states joined the European Union. Citizens of new eastern EU members, particularly from Poland, soon arrived in Ireland seeking work. Many ... 04/27/2024 - 11:21 pm | View Link
The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.
Threats of jail time.
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing that cannabis be reclassified from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a classification that comes with steep penalties, to the less severe Schedule III, for drugs with significant medical use. If the White House Office of Management and Budget approves the decision, the DEA would be able to offer its proposal for public comment.
Eight years ago, in his 2016 run for president, Donald Trump said that women who have abortions should be criminally charged. “There has to be some form of punishment,” Trump said at the time. The comment caused a firestorm and his campaign walked it back within hours. It marked one of the few times that Trump recanted.
Early Tuesday morning, Columbia student protesters took over a building on campus, pledging not to leave until their demands—for the university to divest from Israel, financial transparency from Columbia’s endowment, and amnesty for pro-Palestinian protesters—are met.
The group of “autonomous protesters” took over Hamilton Hall, an academic building on the Morningside Heights campus, shortly after midnight, according to a media advisory from Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the group that organized the Gaza Solidarity Encampment over the past few weeks.
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial fined the former president $9,000 on Tuesday for violating a gag order—and he warned Trump that any further violations might result in jail time.
Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for his role in a 2016 scheme to cover up an alleged extra-marital affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.