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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country. The DEA’s proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, would recognize the medical […]
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday it is ordering the U.S. units of China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile to discontinue fixed or mobile broadband internet operations in the United States. The FCC said it was requiring the Chinese carriers to discontinue services within 60 days of the […]
The deal on a massive appropriations bill reached between Congress and the White House will include a ban on all direct U.S. funding for the main humanitarian agency operating in Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, until March 2025, three sources with knowledge of the negotiations confirmed to CBS News. […]
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP The Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington, DC, on February 25, 2015. CNN — A federal agency in charge of cybersecurity discovered it was hacked last month and was forced to take two key computer systems offline, an agency spokesperson and US officials familiar with the incident told CNN. One of […]
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Home Depot violated U.S. labor law by barring a retail worker from wearing an apron that said “BLM” in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, a federal labor board ruled on Wednesday. The National Labor Relations Board in a 3-1 decision said the worker’s refusal to remove the writing […]
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Home Depot store is seen in Los Angeles, California March 17, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Home Depot (NYSE:) violated U.S. labor law by barring a retail worker from wearing an apron that said “BLM” in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, a federal labor […]
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Home Depot violated U.S. labor law by barring a retail worker from wearing an apron that said “BLM” in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, a federal labor board ruled on Wednesday. The National Labor Relations Board in a 3-1 decision said the worker’s refusal to remove the writing […]
Fire on an oil tanker struck by a Houthi missle is now extinguished Trafigura, the company that owns the Marlin Luanda confirms that the fire that blazed on the ship overnight is now extinguished and there were no injuries. The ship, with a cargo of highly flammable naphtha, a petroleum product, was attacked yesterday by […]
Israel’s foreign minister calls for a halt to UNRWA activites in Gaza after the war Leila Sackur Israel’s foreign minister has accused UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees of serving as the “civilian arm of Hamas in Gaza,” as he said that Israel was working to garner transnational support for to stop the agency’s […]
The United States government said Friday that it was temporarily pausing additional funding for UNRWA, the United Nations humanitarian agency that serves Palestinians, as the organization said it had opened an investigation into allegations from Israel that some of its staff members participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. On Oct. 7, Hamas militants, designated a […]