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WorkRevealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps
  On an October morning, a small army arrived to evict Rudy Ortega from his home in the Crash Zone, an encampment located near the end of the airport runway in San Jose, California, Silicon Valley’s largest city. As jets roared overhead, garbage trucks and police squad cars encircled Ortega’s hand-built shelter. Heavy machinery operators stood by for the signal to bulldoze Ortega’s camp. Work
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WorkU.S. to set limits on silica exposure first recommended half a century ago
 Most people know silica as the mysterious contents of desiccation packets found in vitamin bottles, high-end leather purses, clothing, and other items. But for miners and other stone cutters, silica is a serious health hazard, and new rules announced on Tuesday by a U.S. government agency set strict limits on how much of the mineral they can be exposed to. Work
WorkWhat Elon Musk doesn't understand about Brazil
 You can pick out themes like right-wing populism or a libertarian founder cult, but they don’t explain things like the extended harassment of former Twitter executives or the obvious production blunders of the Cybertruck. In many cases, he seems to have given up on strategic thought. Work
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WorkWorkKari Lake Urges Supporters to Arm Themselves Ahead of Election
 And Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, on Monday urged people whose routes were blocked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators to “take matters into your own hands” and confront the offenders, endorsing the use of physical force against peaceful protesters.
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WorkWorkTrump Holds Series of Meetings With Foreign Leaders
 Richard Haass, a former diplomat and the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, said there was nothing inherently wrong with such interactions. “There’s nothing unusual — or to put it positively, there’s everything usual — about foreign leaders meeting with the American equivalent of the leader of the opposition,” Mr. Haass said.
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WorkAmericans Are More Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda, Senator Warns
 “With polarization in this country, and the lack of faith in institutions, people will believe anything or not believe things that come from what used to be viewed as trusted sources of information,” Mr. Warner said. “So there’s a much greater willingness to accept conspiracy theories.” Work
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WorkWorkWorkWorkU.S. consumers sue to stop Alaska Air, Hawaiian Airlines merger
 In another case, American Airlines has asked a U.S. appeals court to reverse a Boston federal judge\'s decision that its now-scrapped U.S. Northeast partnership with JetBlue was anticompetitive. American Airlines said the ruling threatens other collaborations. WorkRishi Sunak and Belgian PM criticise mayor's halting of NatCon conference
 Among the other speakers in the line-up were Ryszard Legutko, a Polish politician who has said he does not "understand why anyone should want to be proud of being a homosexual" and Rod Dreher, an American writer who argued that the Christchurch mosque gunman who killed 51 people in 2019 did have "legitimate, realistic concerns" about "declining numbers of ethnic Europeans". WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkU.S.C. Cancels Valedictorian’s Speech After Pro-Israel Groups Object
 “I am both shocked by this decision and profoundly disappointed that the university is succumbing to a campaign of hate meant to silence my voice,” Ms. Tabassum wrote, adding, “There remain serious doubts about whether U.S.C.’s decision to revoke my invitation to speak is made solely on the basis of safety.” WorkWorkMan Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison for Kidnapping F.B.I. Worker
 The three were trying to hide from the police near Red Shirt, S.D., after a high-speed chase during a trip from Colorado in which the three had planned to distribute drugs, prosecutors said. They had pulled over and planned to carjack the next vehicle that drove by, prosecutors said, apparently to continue to elude law enforcement officers. WorkWorkWorkTrump’s Jan. 6 Case Could Go On Even if Court Limits Use of Obstruction Law
 One of those counts accuses him of conspiring with six others who are unnamed — widely thought to be a group of lawyers close to him — to disrupt the certification of the election that took place inside the Capitol during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. The second count accuses him of actually obstructing that proceeding. Work4 in ‘God’s Misfits’ Group Charged in Disappearance of 2 Kansas Women
 Hunter McKee, a spokesman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, said at a news conference on Monday that there was no chance that the women were still alive, though two bodies recovered during the investigation into their disappearance had not yet been identified by the state medical examiner. WorkWorkWorkCalifornia Man Gets 9 Years in Firebombing of Planned Parenthood Clinic
 Mr. Brannon and a co-conspirator, Tibet Ergul, 22, of Irvine, Calif., wore hooded sweatshirts and masks as they lit and threw a Molotov cocktail at the clinic’s entrance at around 1 a.m. on March 13, 2022, according to a criminal complaint. It struck the entrance and started a fire, the statement said. WorkWorkMelania Trump Avoids the Courtroom, but Is Said to Share Her Husband’s Anger
 All of this could put Mr. Trump on shaky ground with his wife, who has defended him in some critical moments — including when he bragged on tape about grabbing women by their genitals — and withheld her public support in others, like when she did not appear alongside him as he locked up victories on Super Tuesday. WorkU.S. Limits Deadly Mining Dust as Black Lung Resurges
 Both mine safety advocates and industry groups generally support the rule’s central change: halving the allowed concentration of silica dust. But their views on the rule, proposed last July, diverge sharply over enforcement, with mining trade groups arguing that the requirements are unnecessarily broad and costly, and miners’ advocates cautioning that companies are largely left to police themselves. |
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