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Month: January 2022
Business owner paid ex-worker with 91,000 pennies. That’s retaliation, feds claim in lawsuit. – CBS News
After a former employee of A OK Walker Autoworks filed a complaint with state labor regulators in 2021 accusing the owner of failing to issue his final paycheck of $915, he got an unwelcome surprise: a mountain of 91,000 pennies, covered in oil, dumped in his driveway.But the worker, Andreas […]
Ashli Babbitt’s Husband Says She Wouldn’t Have Died if They Both Went to D.C.
Ashli Babbitt would not have died at the Capitol Riot if her husband was traveling by her side on the fateful cross-country trip …at least that’s how he feels about her death. Ashli’s husband, Aaron Babbitt , tells TMZ …he did not accompany his late wife to Washington D.C.on Jan.6, […]
Jobs report December 2021: Hiring falters as payrolls rise only 199,000
The U.S.economy added far fewer jobs than expected in December just as the nation was grappling with a massive surge in Covid cases, the Labor Department said Friday.Nonfarm payrolls grew by 199,000, while the unemployment rate fell to 3.9%, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data .That compared with the […]
School closures create ‘an incredible stress’ on kids, parents: Independent Women’s Forum
Thousands of schools closed during the week of Jan.2 after the holiday break, amid a surge of COVID-19 cases and harsh winter weather conditions.More than 5,200 schools closed across the U.S.the first week of the year, some of which will remain closed until Jan.16, according to community events website Burbio, […]
The 58 Best Movies on Hulu Right Now (January 2022)
If you’re in the mood for some grade-A cinema, look no further than Hulu.The bountiful home to hundreds of titles, including big-budget tentpole films, indie breakouts, and everything in between, there’s simply no shortage of flicks to binge this weekend.In fact, the only trouble we think you’ll have is wading […]
Omicron hasn’t stopped the jobs recovery — yet
New York (CNN Business) The US economy added 199,000 jobs in December, the Labor Department reported Friday.That was the fewest jobs added in any month of 2021. That was a major disappointment: Economists had forecast jobs growth of double that number.So how could forecasts be so off again? “We just […]
Sidney Poitier, Oscar-winning actor, dead at 94
Sidney Poitier, the beloved Oscar-winning actor, has died .He was 94.The star’s death was confirmed to Fox News on Friday by the Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office.Prime Minister of the Bahamas Philip Davis also held a press conference on Friday morning where he remembered the film icon as an […]
Citigroup will terminate unvaccinated workers by Jan. 31, a first among Wall Street banks
Citigroup will be the first major Wall Street institution to enforce a vaccine mandate by terminating noncompliant workers by the end of this month.The bank reminded employees in a memo sent Friday about its policy, first disclosed in October, that they must be “fully vaccinated as a condition of employment.” […]
Facebook and Google are helping the FBI find January 6 rioters – Vox
A few days after the Capitol insurrection last January, the FBI got two tips identifying an Ohio man named Walter Messer as a participant, and both cited his social media posts about being there.To verify those tips, the FBI turned to three companies that held a large amount of damning […]