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Striking port workers to return to work Friday as negotiators reach an agreement on wages

Updated 7:14 PM EDT, Thu October 3, 2024 New York CNN -- Striking members of the International Longshoremen's Association will be back to work at the ports on Friday, the union announced Thursday evening, as the union and the management group representing shipping lines, terminal operators and port authorities have reached a tentative deal on wages. The agreement on wages amounts to a $4-per-hour raise for each year of the six-year contract, a source with knowledge of the negotiations told ...

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DeSantis orders Florida National Guard, State Guard to intervene in port strike

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he will deploy the Florida National Guard and Florida State Guard to ports affected by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) strike. In an X/Twitter post, the governor stated that guard members will be deployed to ports affected by the strike “to maintain order and, where possible, resume operations at ports which are otherwise shut down.” “Disrupting the distribution of food, equipment, and supplies as the Southeast U.S. recovers from Hurricane Hel ...

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Photos Show New York Congressman in Blackface as Michael Jackson

Oct. 3, 2024, 3:12 p.m. ET Representative Mike Lawler of New York wore blackface as part of a Halloween costume when he was a college student almost two decades ago, according to photographs recently obtained by The New York Times. The images, taken around October 2006, show a 20-year-old Mr. Lawler at a campus social gathering dressed as Michael Jackson. He is wearing a black shirt and a red jacket and, in one photo, is striking a signature Jackson dance pose. His face has also been visibly ...

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Wisconsin DOJ now leading investigation into drop box removal by Wausau Mayor Doug Diny

WAUSAU – The Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation will be serving as lead investigator on the Sept. 22 removal of the absentee ballot drop box by Wausau Mayor Doug Diny. The state-level investigation was confirmed Thursday morning via email by the Wisconsin Office of the Attorney General. The drop box was returned to its regular location on Monday. The investigation comes after City Clerk Kaitlyn Bernarde made two reports of an election irregularity on Sept. 23 ...

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Kamala Harris is making an unusual pilgrimage today -- to the birthplace of the GOP

October 3, 2024 5:00 AM ET The town known as the birthplace of the Republican Party is an unlikely campaign stop for a Democratic presidential candidate. But on Thursday, Vice President Harris will be holding an event in Ripon, Wisc. — home to the Little White Schoolhouse, where an 1854 meeting led to the formation of the Republican Party. Harris will be joined in Ripon by former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, who endorsed her last month. Harris’ campaign says they will speak about the history of the ...

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Harris hands out meals, consoles families as she surveys Hurricane Helene devastation in Georgia

(AP) Vice President Kamala Harris handed out meals, embraced a shaken family and surveyed Hurricane Helene’s “extraordinary” path of destruction through Georgia on Wednesday as she left the campaign trail to pledge federal help and personally take in scenes of toppled trees, damaged homes and lives upended. She visited Augusta, where power lines stretched along the sidewalk and utility poles lay cracked and broken. The vice president spoke from a lectern erected in front of a house with a fallen tree teetering on its roof, acknowledging those who had died in the disaster while also trying to project a tone of unity and hope for communities now facing long and expensive rebuilds.

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Donald Trump Chased Over Unpaid Debts for His Rallies

(Newsweek) Authorities in Erie, Pennsylvania, are still seeking $40,330 from Donald Trump's presidential campaign to pay for assistance they provided for his 2018 and 2023 campaign visits, bringing the total debt five cities say he owes them to over $740,000. It is in addition to more than $700,000 of unpaid debts that four cities—El Paso, Texas; Spokane, Washington; Mesa, Arizona; and Green Bay, Wisconsin—were still seeking last month for rallies that took place between 2016 and 2019, a Newsweek investigation found.

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11 damning details in Jack Smith's new brief in the Trump election case

(Politico) Much of Smith’s brief focused on Trump’s state of mind in the weeks leading up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Smith described a slew of conversations suggesting that the then-president knew his claims of election fraud were spurious. And Smith laid out evidence that Trump’s sole objective was to stay in power — not, as he and his lawyers have claimed, to exercise legitimate authority over election integrity. Prosecutors said they would prove at trial that Trump and his allies often made up statistics about voter fraud “from whole cloth.”

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Trump Called Bannon on January 5

(Political Wire) Politico: “Prosecutors, who had more access to telephone records and emails than the congressional committee that investigated Jan. 6, allege that Trump spoke to ally Steve Bannon by phone on Jan. 5 less than two hours before Bannon issued a prescient and provocative prediction on his War Room podcast that ‘all hell is going to break loose’ on Jan. 6.”

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