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Jose Garcia's JournalBlack-Owned Station Parts Ways With Host Who Asked Biden Questions Provided by the Campaign
Source: The Wrap
Philadelphia radio station WURD has decided to “mutually” part ways with “The Source” host Andrea Lawful-Sanders, as a result of her choice to use interview questions provided in advance by the Biden-Harris campaign for her interview with President Joe Biden. The station said in a lengthy statement that Lawful-Sanders had violated the station’s practices by using those questions. The interview was given to the station as part of the campaign’s efforts to reach hosts with large Black audiences; the station is a Black-owned urban talk station and is aimed at Black listeners.
According to WURD, Lawful-Sanders arranged and negotiated the conditions of her interview with the president independently and that using the questions provided by Joe Biden’s campaign “violates our practice of remaining an independent media outlet accountable to our listeners. As a result, Ms. Lawful-Sanders and WURD Radio have mutually agreed to part ways, effective immediately.”
“Agreeing to a pre-determined set of questions jeopardizes that trust and is not a practice that WURD Radio engages in or endorses as a matter of practice or official policy,” the station said in its statement.
Both Lawful-Sanders and Wisconsin radio host Earl Ingram told CNN on Saturday that Biden-Harris campaign aides delivered eight questions ahead of their separate emails with the president. Lawful-Sanders said, “The questions were sent to me for approval; I approved them.”
Read more: https://www.thewrap.com/black-radio-station-wurd-andrea-lawful-sanders-biden-interview-questions/
Trump widens lead on Biden after debate in highly anticipated poll
Source: The Hill
Former President Trump has expanded his lead over President Biden in the aftermath of last week’s debate to 6 points, up from 3 just a week prior, according to a much-anticipated New York Times/Siena College poll.
The poll showed Trump leading Biden with 49 percent support to the incumbent’s 43 percent among likely voters, holding the largest lead he has had in a Times/Siena poll since 2015. Among registered voters, Trump’s lead expands to 8 points, 49 percent to 41 percent.
Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4754038-trump-biden-debate-lead-poll/amp/
Visiting US Senator Fetterman: No to any deal that leaves Hamas in power
Source: Times of Israel
Backing the position expressed repeatedly by Israel’s leadership, United States Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) said on Thursday that he would oppose any deal with Hamas that ended the Gaza war and left the terror group in power.
“I fully support the prime minister’s idea that he can never allow a permanent ceasefire [if] Hamas is allowed to be functional,” said Fetterman, speaking in Jerusalem during his first trip to Israel.
“That’s my red line on that,” said the freshman senator, clad in his trademark shorts and hoodie sweatshirt. “I could never support Israel being bullied into an artificial kind of permanent ceasefire against an enemy like Hamas.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists he will fight till Hamas is destroyed over its devastating October 7 attack on the country.
Read more: https://www.timesofisrael.com/visiting-us-senator-fetterman-no-to-any-deal-that-leaves-hamas-in-power/
Democrat secures key primary endorsement in race for U.S. Sen. Rick Scott's seat
Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal
Other than former congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Democrats running for U.S. Senate against Rick Scott have been relatively low-key in a race to be determined in less than two months.
One of Mucarsel-Powell's opponents, though, hopes that will change with his announcement of a key endorsement.
Stanley Campbell, a Palm City businessman, has landed the state AFL-CIO's endorsement.
Rich Templin, director of politics and public policy at the AFL-CIO Florida, said the endorsement required a two-thirds vote by members at an endorsement conference over the weekend.
Read more: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/24/afl-cio-endorses-democrat-stanley-campbell-for-florida-senate/74190902007/
Teamsters President To Address Republican Convention At Trump's Invitation
Source: Huffington Post
International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien plans to address the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next month, in what would be a rare appearance by a high-profile labor leader at the GOP’s quadrennial meeting.
Former President Donald Trump announced the news on his social media platform Truth Social on Friday, saying O’Brien had “accepted my invitation.”
“Sean, I look forward to seeing you represent the Teamsters in Milwaukee,” Trump said. “Together we can Make America Great Again.”
A Teamsters spokesperson confirmed the planned appearance in an email and said O’Brien had asked to speak at both the Democratic and GOP conventions.
Read more: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/teamsters-president-address-republican-convention-192206487.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACgrdn9CSBUFnJ7s47S2zlP7Qw2H97jJfd0ubrooNnRVa6eJfAlRtkL72li0FRVYOaHQj7r-_UQdJWReiE-UB5I7oCe95FtCzFwvOzHn0m_Rb0i2itHv1qlN3gglxG7c09x3Q2qxX7Qj2xMaEz7yXAaNjlgLH8QfNP93hbxYHO7Y
Top Florida law enforcement official sues DeSantis, alleging he was fired for blowing the whistle
Source: ABC News
A former top law enforcement official in Florida is accusing Gov. Ron DeSantis and his top aides of forcing him to retire after he refused to carry out orders he says were illegal or inappropriate, according to a lawsuit filed overnight.
Shane Desguin, a career employee of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, rose to become the agency's chief of staff. He alleges his retirement in November was actually a "wrongful termination" and was the result of him blowing the whistle on a host of issues, including violations of state public records laws, illegal orders to arrest demonstrators without probable cause and directives to obtain photos and personal information of migrants flown to the Sunshine State without legal justification.
"Despite his stellar work performance during his employment," the lawsuit says, Desguin "was subjected to disparate treatment, different terms and conditions of employment, and held to a different standard because he reported Defendants' malfeasance, gross misconduct and unlawful employment activities and was subject to retaliation thereafter."
The lawsuit was filed in state Circuit Court in Tallahassee and names DeSantis and FDLE, long viewed as one of the nation's premier state-level law-enforcement agencies. Desguin is seeking unspecified damages and names both FDLE and DeSantis as defendants.
Read more: https://abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/top-florida-law-enforcement-official-sues-desantis-alleging/story?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&id=111258138&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17189047807782&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FUS%2Ftop-florida-law-enforcement-official-sues-desantis-alleging%2Fstory%3Fid%3D111258138
South Africa's ANC and opposition announce a unity government, in a big power shift
Source: NPR
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The African National Congress party has signed a deal to form a coalition government with the main opposition, party officials announced Friday after weeks of fevered negotiations.
Dubbed the government of national unity, this marks a seismic shift in South African politics, which has been dominated by the ANC since the end of apartheid 30 years ago. It aligns the party of the late legendary leader Nelson Mandela with its rival, the white-led, pro-business Democratic Alliance (DA) party. The coalition also includes the smaller Inkatha Freedom Party.
Will it be “good gnus or bad gnus?” has been a joke making the rounds in South Africa the past two weeks — playing on the initials of government of national unity — as political parties engaged in lengthy backroom talks to form a GNU or coalition of some sort, a necessity after the ANC lost its outright majority in May elections.
The ANC got 40% of the national vote, a wakeup call from citizens expressing their frustration with a struggling economy, high unemployment, service delivery failure and corruption.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/14/nx-s1-5003237/south-africa-anc-da-national-unity-government-coalition
Supreme Court Ruling in Starbucks Case Curbs Labor Regulation
Source: New York Times
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Starbucks on Thursday in a challenge against a labor ruling by a federal judge, making it more difficult for a key federal agency to intervene when a company is accused of illegally suppressing labor organizing.
Eight justices backed the majority opinion, which was written by Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a separate opinion concurring with parts of the majority opinion, dissenting from other portions and agreeing with the overall judgment.
The ruling came in a case brought by Starbucks over the firing of seven workers in Memphis who were trying to unionize a store in 2022. The company said it had fired them for allowing a television crew into a closed store, while the workers said that they were fired for their unionization efforts and that the company didn’t typically enforce the rules they were accused of violating.
After the firings, the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint saying that Starbucks had acted because the workers had “joined or assisted the union and engaged in concerted activities, and to discourage employees from engaging in these activities.” Separately, lawyers for the board asked a federal judge in Tennessee for an injunction reinstating the workers, and the judge issued the order in August 2022.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/economy/supreme-court-starbucks-nlrb.html
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas fails in challenge to rules that bar her from elite women's races
Source: Yahoo News
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas failed in her challenge against rules that stop her from competing in elite women’s races because judges ruled she did not have standing to bring the case.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport panel of three judges dismissed Thomas’ request for arbitration with the World Aquatics governing body, in a ruling released Wednesday.
World Aquatics banned transgender women who have been through male puberty from competing in women’s races. It also created an “open” category for which transgender athletes would be eligible.
Thomas had asked the sports court in Switzerland to overturn the rules approved in 2022 that she said were invalid, unlawful and discriminatory.
Read more: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://sports.yahoo.com/transgender-swimmer-lia-thomas-fails-163407586.html&ved=2ahUKEwiHhauuq9eGAxXWmIQIHfcfDGEQxfQBKAB6BAgHEAI&usg=AOvVaw3Zdjm0_9eNCh26ZlhGBeKg
Pro-Palestinian Campus Protesters Hit With Felony Charges
Source: Newsweek
Thirteen pro-Palestinian protesters who barricaded themselves in the office of Stanford University's president were charged with felony burglary on Friday, with some of them suspended and not able to graduate.
The incident took place early Wednesday morning when protesters occupied President Richard Saller's office before they were forcibly removed by the Stanford Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) and the County Sheriff's Office.
Demonstrators intended to remain inside the building until their demands were met, but police cleared the encampment within three hours.
Approximately 50 students, most dressed in black with their faces wrapped in kaffiyehs, linked arms and surrounded the building in solidarity with the occupying students.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/stanford-palestine-israel-protests-felony-burglary-1909853?ref=upstract.com
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