A union representing contractors for YouTube Music claims that Google cut the workers’ contract after they went on a prolonged strike. The Alphabet Workers Union-CWA, which represents the contractors, said the team consisted of moderators employed by Google contractor Cognizant in Austin, Texas, that was responsible for approving music content for YouTube Music. Google previously argued that it doesn’t have to negotiate with the workers since they are not Google employees. However, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled in March 2023 that because Google controlled benefits, hours of work, and the direction of the work of the contractors, it counted as a partial employer. The company appealed, and the NLRB upheld its ruling in January of this year. Google can appeal to federal court.

High school senior Alaisha Torres Soto said she's urging local officials on the island to use school budgets wisely and invest in the buildings housing the future of Puerto Rico.

The piñata finally burst. Starbucks corporate heads agreed Tuesday to negotiate for real with the union and allow workers to organize. “I was in shock initially, and definitely some disbelief,” said Michelle Eisen, who works at the first Buffalo store that unionized with Starbucks Workers United in 2021. As she learned more, she said, she came to believe the victory is real.

The family of a Lurie patient with a rare condition haven't had access to her medical records during the ongoing outage after the cyberattack.

The biggest labor union in Washington state endorsed voting “uncommitted” in the state’s Democratic presidential primary next month, citing concerns about President Joe Biden’s political strength and his support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

Two men were convicted of murder in the death of Jam Master Jay, a brazen 2002 shooting in the rap legend’s studio.

The Yaque River basin restoration project has reduced soil degradation by 18%, although gentrification and climate change remain threats

"I wanna live like common people I wanna do whatever common people do..."

A large Korean church is hosting a meeting by violent fascists to pass an anti-trans initiative this election.

Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are visiting the southern border Thursday in a dramatic split-screen moment as the 2024 presidential campaign ramps up over an issue that has confounded administrations of both parties for decades: immigration. It’s Biden’s second trip to the border since he took office. His first was to El Paso in January 2023. This time, he’s set to visit Brownsville, a border town in the Rio Grande Valley that has long felt the impacts of migration up close. “He wanted to show that it was important for him to go down there, to hear from Border Patrol agents, to hear from first responders,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing Wednesday. Biden will also deliver remarks to urge congressional Republicans to pass more border security funding, a White House official said.

In the days since Alabama's Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered "extrauterine children," the involvement of that court's chief justice with a once-fringe Christian Nationalist movement has come under renewed scrutiny. Tom Parker, a Republican who joined the court in 2005, wrote a concurring opinion that quoted at length from sources such as the Book of Genesis, the Ten Commandments and Christian thinkers of centuries ago, such as Thomas Aquinas. But comments he has made in other media have raised questions about his seeming espousal of "Seven Mountains" theology, a concept that some experts consider to be Christian extremism.

A student remains “scarred and disfigured” since her sophomore year of high school, when her teacher told students she brought a “surprise” into chemistry class, according to a lawsuit filed by her family. The teacher revealed she had two swords, including a “katana-style sword,” in the science classroom at Volcano Vista High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 2, 2022, the lawsuit says. Then, she instructed the students to fight each other with the weapons, in pairs, according to a complaint filed Feb. 23... After the teen recorded her two male classmates sword fighting, the teacher selected her to fight another student, the complaint says. During the fight, the other student “struck (the teen) across her right forearm, wrist, and hand with the katana-style sword, according to the complaint. The impact of the blade deeply cut the 16-year-old’s right hand and wrist, and she began “bleeding heavily,” the complaint says. “I’m in trouble,” the teacher exclaimed in response, according to the complaint.

Management has questioned staffers, including Daily producers, after The Intercept revealed internal debate over a yet-to-air episode on Hamas weaponizing sexual violence. Such a probe is highly unusual, say staffers, one of whom dubbed it a “witch hunt.”

The name of “Pro-White man” Darrell Leon McClanahan III sits atop Missouri's gubernatorial ballot

Nearly 30 years after the company was founded, we still don’t really know where its profits come from. The answer will loom large in the antitrust case against it. If you read the recently unsealed materials from the federal antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, you’ll see why the company wanted to keep them under wraps. According to the unredacted notes from one meeting, Jeff Bezos directed his team to stuff more ads into search results, even if it meant accepting more ads internally categorized as irrelevant to what users were looking for. Other quoted documents reveal the company working to conceal a mysterious price-hiking algorithm, in part because “of increased media focus.” Similarly unflattering nuggets abound. But here’s something you won’t find in those materials, because it was deemed too sensitive to unredact: precisely how Amazon makes its money. Nearly 30 years after the company was founded, we still don’t really know. Amazon has long cultivated the impression that it operates its shopping platform at razor-thin margins, relying instead on its cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), for much of its profit. And yet the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit contends that Amazon’s e-commerce business is, in fact, “enormously profitable.” The resolution to this dispute is likely to figure heavily in whether the judge finds that Amazon is merely a benevolent retail giant or a destructive monopoly. And regardless of what happens in the Amazon case, the fact that large corporations have been able to keep such basic information private helps explain why policy makers, journalists, and the public were so slow to recognize the growing problem of monopolization in America.

The world isn’t on track to meet its climate goals — and it’s the public’s fault, a leading oil company CEO told journalists.

The families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre voted to liquidate Alex Jones' assets in order to collect on a $1.5 billion defamation award.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community rallied alongside strippers at the Washington state Capitol earlier this week in support of a bill that would improve working conditions in strip clubs. Senate Bill 6105 would also do away with the statewide lewd conduct regulation that was cited in last month’s controversial raids on several Seattle gay bars. The bill, known as the “Strippers’ Bill of Rights,” would limit the fees strip clubs can charge dancers, ban local ordinances that mandate the distance between dancers and customers, and require clubs to provide security staffing as well as training for dancers in de-escalating conflicts with customers and preventing sex trafficking.

The controversial bill imposes prison sentences of up to three years for LGBTQ+ people, and up to five years for forming or funding pro LGBTQ+ groups.

"Screams Without Words," the New York Times story about sexual violence by Jeffrey Gettleman, Adam Sella, and Anat Schwartz comes under fire.