California has become the first state to ban hair discrimination, after Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill intended to protect black employees and students from pressure to change their natural hairstyles…
July 5, 2019
Newsom signed the bill on Wednesday, several days after it was passed by the state Assembly. Titled the CROWN Act — an acronym of “Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair” — the bill prohibits schools and workplaces from enforcing policies that “disproportionately affect people of color, particularly black people,” writes the Los Angeles Times. Banning dreadlocks, braids, or Afros, would, for instance, violate the new regulation...
Biden endorses ObamaCare’s individual mandate that requires Americans to buy health care…
July 5, 2019
“Yes,” he said on Friday during an interview with CNN, “I’d bring back the individual mandate.” Biden went on to say that he believed everyone should have access to health care, but that private insurance should not be eliminated. “We’re in a situation now where if you provide an option for someone who wants to buy into Medicare for all, they can buy in,” he said. “They buy in. They can do it. But if they like their employer-based insurance, which a lot of unions broke their necks to get, they shouldn’t have to give it up.”...
U.S. adds 224,000 jobs as hiring rebounds in June, Unemployment at 3.7% as more people look for work…
These sectors added the most in June...
July 5, 2019
The increase in new jobs easily beat the 170,000 forecast of economists polled by MarketWatch. Improved hiring last month dispels for now the threat of a dramatic slowdown in growth for an economy that just this month set the record for longest expansion ever... The unemployment rate, meanwhile, edged up to 3.7% from 3.6% as more than 300,000 people entered the labor force in search of work, the Labor Department said Friday.
Bernie Sanders and Biden complained about Trump’s 4th of July…
July 5, 2019
This is what authoritarians do: @realDonaldTrump is taking $2.5 million away from our National Park Service to glorify himself with a spectacle of military tanks rolling through Washington. And top GOP donors are getting VIP seats, all at taxpayer expense. https://t.co/8vchmDxX8W
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) July 3, 2019
Joe Biden, the former vice president and another 2020 hopeful, said Trump’s spectacle in Washington “misses the point”.
The Rev William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, criticised the president on Twitter, writing: “He thinks this is the sign of strength, but it’s a damn narcissistic travesty.”...
Never go full retard.
Police in Nebraska launch investigation after men blow up SUV in packed parking lot…
July 5, 2019
The huge explosion caused damage to nearby businesses and left a chaotic scene littered with debris according to a report. Now authorities are using a video that shows the moment enormous clouds of smoke were sent soaring into the air and a motor was left on fire on the premises of ALLways Towing Inc. The clip was shared by the owner of the company, Jeremie Garrison, who titled it on YouTube 'SICK EXPLOSION!?! (Did someone get hurt?)' with the caption 'Explosion/Car/Lol/Fireworks/Fire/...'... now Garrison could be in hot water with law enforcement... KLKNTV reported that the owner told them in a phone call he 'thought the device was a smoke bomb and had no idea it was as powerful as it was'.
Man with machete stabs 3 at Virginia plasma center; nurses, patients hid in bathroom…
July 5, 2019
A first responder could be heard saying that one of the victims lost a finger. The dispatcher described a chaotic scene as customers and staff members fled for cover... Petersburg Police Lt. Dustin Sloan told reporters Thursday that after officers arrived, the suspect was taken into custody without incident. His name wasn’t immediately released but police indicated he could face charges of aggravated assault.
The first of the Russian S-400 defence systems that Turkey has purchased will be loaded on to cargo planes on Sunday and arrive in Turkey some time next week…
July 5, 2019
Washington has said that U.S. sanctions would be triggered when the missile batteries arrive in NATO ally Turkey.
The initial S-400 delivery will be sent on two cargo planes from a Russian military air base, Haberturk said without citing a source. It also reported that a Russian technical team that would oversee its installation is expected to arrive in Turkey by Monday...