Evidence of a monumental struggle emerges as volunteers clear Civil War battle site "There is something you get out of going to a battlefield or another historic site that you can ... axes and chainsaws to uncover the remnants of the Civil War battlefield with the ultimate goal of ... 04/26/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Workers Memorial Day service to honor unions, laborers The Greater Branch of NAACP, the Central Wabash Valley Building and Construction Trades Council and the Eugene V. Debs Museum will sponsor a Workers Memorial Day service from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday at the ... 04/24/2024 - 12:20 pm | View Link
Detroit’s lost Civil War site has been found A new archaeological scan of the ground around Campau Park has identified the location of the six barracks of Camp Ward. 04/23/2024 - 7:16 am | View Link
The UAW’s Chattanooga Victory: Score One for the North in Our Endless Civil War We still have two labor systems, and need mass unionization to end our immense inequality, which has its roots in the South. 04/21/2024 - 10:38 pm | View Link
Civil War Trails site unveiled in North York at Lebanon Cemetery honors Black Americans Lebanon Cemetery added to more than 1,500 sites for travelers, enabling them to stand in the footsteps of historic events and people of the Civil War. 04/17/2024 - 9:03 pm | View Link
Judge Merchan ruled that Donald Trump violated a gag order nine times and ordered him to pay $9,000. Merchan also threatened to jail Trump if he didn't comply with the gag order in the future. Criminal defense attorney Bill Brennan breaks down the decision.
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Eight years ago, the final Saturday before the Iowa caucuses brought forward all of the contradictions and chaos of then-reality star Donald Trump’s candidacy for the presidency.
(PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) — Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose former Sports Minister Fritz Belizaire as the country’s prime minister Tuesday as it presses forward in its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence.
Belizaire replaces Michel Patrick Boisvert, the former minister of economy and finance who was the current interim prime minister.
The number of groups lobbying the U. S. federal government on artificial intelligence nearly tripled from 2022 to 2023, rocketing from 158 to 451 organizations, according to data from OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks and publishes data on campaign finance and lobbying. Data on the total amount spent on lobbying by each organization and interviews with two congressional staffers, two nonprofit advocates familiar with AI lobbying efforts, and two named experts suggest that large technology companies have so far dominated efforts to influence potential AI legislation.
The pace is picking up at the Colorado Capitol, with stacked calendars of committee hearings and floor votes. The legislature has nine days to go — including this coming weekend — before the end of the 2024 session, which must adjourn by the end of the day on May 8.
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Updated at 10:30 a.m.: Colorado school employees must now call students by their preferred, gender-affirming names, under to a new law signed Monday by Gov.
So right-wing media continues the deliberate degradation of information, and then pulls it back when threatened with legal action. OAN is not really all that different from Fox, where Jesse Watters gleefully spreads manure on the air. Via the Daily Beast:
Far-right cable news network One America News apologized to Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen Monday after retracting a report that suggested he—rather than Trump himself—had been the one who carried out an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.