The battle to unionize Alabama's Amazon warehouse started here.
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TOP STORIES
Wednesday, March 17
MASSAGE SPA MASSACRE NEAR ATLANTA At least eight people, including six of Asian descent, were killed during three shootings at massage spas in the Atlanta area. Police arrested 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock, Georgia. While there still aren't concrete details about the killer's motive, the country has seen a “documented pattern of recent attacks against our community,” said Stop AAPI Hate, a collective of advocacy organizations for Asian American and Pacific Islander people. [HuffPost]
INCIDENTS OF ANTI-ASIAN RACISM SOAR For more than a year, Asian Americans have faced an alarming deluge of racist attacks and harassment, such as being shunned, spit on and denied services. While the current wave of racism is tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, it's one chapter of a long history of racism and discrimination against Asian Americans, writes HuffPost's Marina Fang. [HuffPost]
BIDEN BREAKTHROUGH President Joe Biden said in an interview he supports changing the filibuster rules to require lawmakers to talk on the Senate floor in order to delay a bill's passage. The move could make the filibuster more difficult and help get Biden's legislative agenda back on track. [HuffPost] |
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BIDEN: CUOMO SHOULD GO IF ALLEGATIONS TRUE Biden also said Tuesday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) should resign if the sexual misconduct allegations against him are confirmed. An independent investigation commissioned by New York Attorney General Letitia James is underway. [HuffPost]
TRUMP SAYS AMERICANS SHOULD GET VACCINE Former President Donald Trump said he recommends that people get the coronavirus vaccine, even as a poll shows Republican men are the most likely group to say they won't get it. Trump and his wife, Melania, quietly received the shot at the White House in January. [HuffPost]
CHILD TAX CREDIT MYSTERY The expansion of the child tax credit might be the most important part of the COVID-19 rescue plan. But how often will it get paid out — monthly? Biannually? Who knows! HuffPost's Arthur Delaney and Igor Bobic explain. [HuffPost] |
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WHAT'S BREWING
FBI ACCUSED OF 'FAKE' KAVANAUGH BACKGROUND CHECK Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said the FBI in 2018 conducted a "politically constrained and perhaps fake" background check on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after women accused the then-nominee of sexual assault. Whitehouse said witnesses couldn't get through to the bureau and contacted senators for help. [HuffPost]
RITZY HOTEL SHOWDOWN TELLS BIGGER STORY The Diplomat Beach Resort in South Florida will remain closed until at least this summer due to the pandemic and has refused to promise workers they would get their jobs back. It's representative of a worry felt by older blue-collar workers across the nation: Will they get replaced by younger workers as the economy reopens? [HuffPost]
DEMS WONDER: WHAT'S THE HOLDUP? Congressional Democrats don't know why Biden is delaying restoring U.S. refugee admissions, as he promised. Nearly a month after saying he would raise the refugee cap from Trump's record low, Biden has yet to formally sign off on it, keeping refugees around the world in limbo. [HuffPost]
JAPAN RULING ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE A Japanese court ruled Wednesday the government's ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, recognizing the rights of same-sex couples for the first time in the only Group of Seven country that doesn't acknowledge their legal partnership. [AP]
UN PAINTS GRIM PICTURE OF YEMEN CRISIS Intensified fighting in Yemen has escalated the nearly six-year conflict in the Arab world's poorest nation, U.N. officials warned. Last week, U.N. World Food Program chief David Beasley said Yemen was “hell on earth in many places” and warned that “we are heading straight toward the biggest famine in modern history.” [HuffPost]
IT HAS TO START SOMEWHERE, IT HAS TO START SOMETIME The most closely watched union campaign in years began at the entrances to an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, in October, reports HuffPost's Dave Jamieson. If the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union wins the fight to create the first union within Amazon's U.S. workforce, the victory will have been seeded right here. [HuffPost] |
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