Kumail Shah

Workers at two Starbucks in Boston and Brookline voted to unionize Monday, becoming the first of the coffee chain’s stores to do so in Massachusetts. The two stores are located in Allston on Commonwealth Avenue and on Harvard Street in Brookline. For each store, the vote to join Workers United was unanimous. Some votes were … Read more

Senior administration officials said, U.S. President Joe Biden will today disclose plans to extend the availability of higher biofuels-blended gasoline during summer to curb rising fuel costs and to cut dependence on foreign energy sources. While E15 is only 10 cents cheaper on average and is less ‘eneenergy-densemeaning drivers would need to buy more fuel, … Read more

Leaders say ghost guns are fueling the gun violence epidemic. In 2021, approximately 20,000 suspected ghost guns were recovered and reported to ATF. Ghost guns are as deadly as any other gun and practically invisible to the system. These privately made firearms have no serial number, which means they can’t be traced. They’re built using … Read more

CNN’s media critic Brian Stelter was stunned when an expert brought on his network to discuss bias at Fox News also cr Stelter interviewed two researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, who conducted a study where Fox News viewers were paid to watch CNN and their reactions were documented and analyzed. “You’re proving … Read more

Almost five months after 10-year-old Isabella “Izzy” Tichenor’s death by suicide, an investigation discloses just how long her school allowed bullying “on any ground” to go unmarked. A newly released investigative report commissioned by the Davis School District in Farmington, Utah, found that Tichenor had been bullied by her classmates and even teachers, CNN reports. … Read more

New York City Mayor Eric Adams publicly designates ‘Juneteenth’ as a paid city holiday for the first time in the city’s history. . On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth was officially designated as a federal holiday. The holiday, which falls on June 19, marks the anniversary of the day federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in … Read more

The Secretary of State of Georgia Brad Raffensperger has referred 1,634 cases of non-citizens attempting to register to vote for investigation and possible prosecution. Attempting to register to vote while knowingly being ineligible is a violation of Georgia law. A citizenship audit piloted by Raffensperger over the past few weeks, which he claims was a … Read more

The district attorney’s office said Monday that the California woman charged with a ‘hate crime’ for ostensibly wrongly accusing a Black teen of taking her phone at a Manhattan hotel in December 2020 and clutching at him as he tried to leave has pleaded guilty. Miya Ponsetto had previously pleaded not guilty last summer to … Read more

Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz noted of the new state budget, “It’s disappointing that Albany chose to lift the cap on casinos, but not charter schools,” It couldn’t be clearer. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and Senate chief Andrea Stewart-Cousins care about special welfare and the vision of big tax revenues, not kids. … Read more

Thomas Robertson, a former police officer who raged the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was found guilty on all six charges at trial in a verdict reached Monday. Thomas was an officer in Rocky Mount, Virginia, when he entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, was arrested last January, and soon after fired by the city. … Read more

Cedar Rapids police reported that 25-year-old Michael Valentine and 35-year-old Nicole Owens were killed. They both used to live in Cedar Rapids. Sunday’s shooting at the ‘Taboo Nightclub’ and Lounge in Cedar Rapids also injured 10 other people. Police didn’t provide an update Monday on the state of everyone who was injured. Officials said one … Read more

S&P has said that Russia has ducked on its foreign debt because it offered bondholders payments in rubles, not dollars, credit ratings agency. Russia endeavored to pay in rubles for two dollar-denominated bonds that matured on April 4, S&P said in a note on Friday. The agency said this amounted to a “selective default” because … Read more

Some Republicans are none too satisfied with former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of TV celebrity and surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz over David McCormick, a former hedge fund executive, and spouse of ex-Trump deputy national security adviser Dina Powell, for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania.   Since Trump publicized over the weekend that he is … Read more

A man who originally dodged jail after raping a 12-year-old girl should be detained for three years, judges have now ruled.   Jachin Mascall, now aged 20, first encountered the girl from south London on Tinder in 2021 and the pair exchanged phone numbers, the Court of Appeal was told.   They met in London … Read more

AFTER a brief respite from protesters yesterday (Saturday, 9 April) Essex Police were back in action this morning after more campaigners turned up in Thurrock to disrupt access to a fuel storage site.   Officers were notified early this morning after a group of more than 20 protestors arrived at the Exolum site in Grays. … Read more

Retirement announcements last week from Reps. Fred Upton (Mich.) and Bob Gibbs (OH) brought to 22 the number of House Republicans who are retiring, seeking another office, resigning, or have died.   That number is not as high as the 31 Democrats who are leaving, but certainly noticeable—especially in a year in which Republicans almost … Read more

Members must be vaccinated if willing to attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner next month in Washington, D.C. The notice was released the same day NBC said 68 attendees of the high-profile Gridiron Dinner held in Washington last week tested positive for COVID-19, including Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and New York City Mayor Eric … Read more

According to the Epoch Times, the pharmaceutical company Moderna on Friday recalled 764,900 doses of its Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine after a “foreign body” was found in a vial. The polluted lot was manufactured at a contract manufacturing site, ROVI, in Spain, and was distributed in mid-January 2022 in Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and Spain, according … Read more

China’s leaders say that the Chinese government has begun to accelerate the development of its nuclear arsenal after reassessing the threat posed to mainland China by the United States. The Wallstreet Journal said that China’s nuclear effort “long predates Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the U.S.’s wariness about getting directly involved in the war there … Read more

China safeguarded its measures to curb the Covid Variant outbreak and expressed anger with the U.S. over what it calls a “groundless allegation” of Chinese pandemic policies, even as cases in Shanghai continued to spread despite an extensive lockdown. Shanghai reported a record 24,943 new COVID cases on Saturday, according to the municipal government. That’s … Read more

The Queen is in the headlines for her struggles with mobility and the fact that she has been unable to appear at a number of key imperial events. , the 95-year-old demonstrated that she still has plenty of vitality for her role as she took part in a digital engagement marking the opening of a … Read more

According to an ABC News poll, most Americans believe that oil companies, in tallying to Russian President Vladimir Putin, should be blamed for the recent spike in oil and gas prices. The ABC News poll was conducted from April 8 through 9 using responses from 530 adults. The poll had a margin of sampling error … Read more

Epoch Times writes that Thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed around the world over the weekend amid a litany of reported issues. Overall on Saturday, more than 2,400 flights were canceled and 9,100 were delayed worldwide, FlightAware data shows. Sunday saw about 7,000 flight delays and 2,235 cancelations. Spring Airlines and China Eastern … Read more

On Sunday White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci accepted that COVID-19 will not be eradicated and that people will have to analyze their own level of risk that they are eager to take with the virus. Fauci told Jonathan Karl on ABC’s This Week, “This is not going to be eradicated and it’s … Read more

On Sunday, French polling agencies anticipated that incumbent Emmanuel Macron and far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen are heading for another winner-takes-all runoff in the French presidential election, with their fierce political enmity and sharply opposing visions pulling clear of a crowded field of 12 candidates in the first round of voting.   If affirmed by … Read more

According to The Hill, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn told in a shocking statement that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would’ve won the 2016 presidential election if former President Barack Obama had nominated a Black woman to the Supreme Court.   While communicating with the newspaper, the South Carolina Democrat brought up Obama’s nomination … Read more

The office of the New York City says that Mayor Eric Adams tested positive for COVID on Sunday. The mayor’s office says, “This morning, Mayor Adams woke up with a raspy voice and, out of an abundance of caution, took a PCR test that has now come back positive.” Adams went into isolation, canceled his … Read more