Conditions d’emploi: unionizing at Lycée Français in New Orleans ( thelensnola.org )
Third-grade teacher Aurore Soliman, a French national, has taught in classrooms around the world. In France and in Norway, she was hired and automatically benefitted from pay scales and workplace conditions negotiated by teachers unions....
Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died ( www.seattletimes.com )
UCLA clashes: Pro-Palestinian protesters attacked by Israel supporters ( www.aljazeera.com )
Former NSA employee sentenced to almost 22 years for trying to sell secrets to Russia ( edition.cnn.com )
Jareh Sebastian Dalke, a 32-year-old Army veteran from Colorado, had briefly worked at the NSA, prosecutors said, and was reapplying to the agency when he tried to sell classified information to a person he believed worked for the Russian government but who actually worked for the FBI.
4 law officers serving warrant are killed, 4 wounded in shootout at North Carolina home, police say ( apnews.com )
Cats suffer H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk ( arstechnica.com )
DeSantis’s Florida ‘callously’ strips healthcare from thousands of children despite new law ( www.theguardian.com )
Florida is continuing to “callously” strip healthcare coverage from thousands of children in lower-income households in defiance of a new federal law intended to protect them....
Charges dropped against all 57 people arrested in UT protest ( www.statesman.com )
FTC Sends Refunds of more than $5.6 million to Certain Ring Customers Stemming from 2023 Settlement ( www.ftc.gov )
The FTC is sending 117,044 PayPal payments to consumers who had certain types of Ring devices, such as indoor cameras, during periods when the FTC alleges unauthorized users may have had access to customer videos. Consumers should redeem their PayPal payment within 30 days....
McKinsey faces US criminal probe over opioids work, sources say ( www.reuters.com )
The probe is focused on whether McKinsey engaged in a criminal conspiracy when advising Purdue and other pharmaceutical manufacturers on marketing strategies to boost sales of prescription painkillers that led to widespread addiction and fatal overdoses, two of the people said....
Trump to receive bonus worth $1.2bn for Trump Media stock performance ( www.theguardian.com )
I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’ ( zeteo.com )
Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights ( abcnews.go.com )
TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt ( www.nytimes.com )
The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok's political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP's Geostrategic Objectives...
FTC bans noncompete agreements for workers ( www.washingtonpost.com )
‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder ( www.theguardian.com )
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U.S. Import & Export in 2023 by Selected Countries ( x.com )
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Albertsons, Kroger will sell more stores to pacify regulators ( www.washingtonpost.com )
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A New Bill In Louisiana Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association ( bookriot.com )
The House Bill 777 was introduced on March 25 by Representative Kellee Dickerson, who helped fund the Louisiana Freedom Caucus. The bill would criminalize library workers and libraries for joining the American Library Association....
"An egregious violation of academic freedom": At Louisiana's flagship university, oil companies can influence research and coursework for a price ( thelensnola.org )
Cross posted from: https://feddit.de/post/11345243...
Columbia Suspends Ilhan Omar’s Daughter One Day After Omar Grilled School Administrators ( theintercept.com )
Omar’s questions to the administrators during a Wednesday congressional hearing on antisemitism at Columbia touched on the school’s response to students being sprayed with a chemical at a campus rally for Gaza and its policy surrounding professors harassing students online....
Secretary of State Blinken to press Beijing over its support for Russian defense base on his trip to China next week ( www.reuters.com )
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UAW secures historic union election win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant ( www.theguardian.com )
