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As fires licked the Los Angeles landscape, a network of volunteers plunged into action to rescue pets and livestock As flames roared into communities on all sides of Los Angeles last week, and tens of thousands of residents rushed to evacuate, trailers across southern California were being hitched and trucks fueled. A network of volunteers … Read more

Allocation of funds from Inflation Reduction Act makes it harder for president-elect to halt green initiatives The Biden administration has raced to allocate $74bn of funding for climate initiatives before Donald Trump’s inauguration, leaving $20bn vulnerable to potential rollback by the incoming president, new figures reveal. As the inauguration of Trump looms, the outgoing administration … Read more

Family of Jeremi Sensky, from Pittsburgh, suggests wheelchair may have acted as ‘boulder’ to help stop attack The family of a man who was left paralyzed from the waist down by a 1999 car accident before being hit and badly wounded in the deadly New Year’s Day truck attack in New Orleans are reportedly wondering … Read more

Culture wars and personal issues are expected to dominate a hearing for Donald Trump’s choice to be the country’s next defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.

For years I’ve overlooked the many good reasons for leaving the social media platform. But now there is no other choice Jaron Lanier was chief scientist of the engineering office of Internet2 back in the day, which is to say, definitely one of the godfathers of the internet. In 2018, he set out the reasons … Read more

Workers call proposals ‘almost laughable’ with new CEO’s pay package 10,000 times the median salary of barista Negotiations between Starbucks and its union have broken down with workers calling the company’s proposals “almost laughable” and highlighting the multi-million pay package of the coffee chain’s recently appointed CEO. Since late 2021, over 530 Starbucks stores have … Read more

Killing people with paperwork instead of a gun doesn’t make you any less of a murderer At this very moment Luigi Mangione, who is accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last month, is sitting in a federal jail cell in Brooklyn. He’s got a barrage of court appearances scheduled and, once he has wound his way … Read more

Workers at Teleperformance, customer support company for Apple, Google and Netflix, accuse it of union busting and surveillance Call center workers for some of the world’s biggest tech companies including Apple, Google, Microsoft and Netflix are accusing their employer of retaliating against union organisers, constantly surveilling staff and even refusing bathroom breaks. In the US … Read more

Bitter battle expected at Senate hearing but Republicans appear confident Pete Hegseth will be confirmed Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s controversial pick for US secretary of defense, will testify at a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, as the military veteran and Fox News host faces intense scrutiny over allegations of sexual assault, excessive alcohol use and … Read more

Investigation finds very high levels of lead and arsenic in homes near a factory processing US toxic waste Raquel Villarreal lives in a bright-yellow house in Mexico’s Monterrey metropolitan area with her family and nine cats. Here, the emergency medicine doctor has raised three daughters, one of whom died at the age of 14. Just … Read more