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| DATE: FRIDAY, 05.10.24 LAST UPDATE: 08:42 AM ET PREPARED BY: CB, RR, JB, SK, BM |
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We have the following scheduled for today's program:
No guests slated for today's show. Subject to change.
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| Here are some highlights from this day on previous shows:
May 10, 2010 - EU’s $1 trillion bailout… Climate bill… Taliban directed plot for Times Square?… Revolutionaries and radicals… The hijacking of our country… 8/28 rally … Net neutrality... FTC and free press target internet… Cass Sunstein... |
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Weekly jobless claims jump to 231,000, the highest since August “One week does not a trend make, but we can no longer be sure that calm seas lie ahead for the US economy if today’s weekly jobless claims are any indication.” ‘Seriously Underwater’ Home Mortgages Tick Up Across the US Roughly one in 37 homes is now considered seriously underwater in the U.S., and that share is much higher across a swath of Southern states. Biden's Labor Board Goes After Amazon CEO for Suggesting Workers Might Be 'Better Off' Without Unions The National Labor Relations Board stretched its speech-policing powers to new highs last week when an in-house administrative judge ruled that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had violated federal labor law by expressing anti-unionization views during several televised interviews in recent years. Tesla accused by Biden's NLRB of creating policies to chill workers’ unionizing efforts in Buffalo Tesla “promulgated and maintained” an acceptable-use policy for workplace technology in 2023 that was meant to “discourage its employees from forming, joining, or assisting the Union or engaging in other concerted activities,” after allegations were raised by members of Workers United. No, Unions Aren't Having a Resurgence — and That's Good for Workers Union membership as a share of wage and salary workers has declined steadily from 28.3% in 1967 to an all-time low of 10% in 2023. Although the absolute number of union workers has recently risen, it hasn't kept up with the growth of the total number of American workers. American Families Can’t Get A Grip On Their Budgets Until Washington Fixes Its Own Reports confirm Washington has created a vicious cycle for struggling families, not to mention the federal government as a whole. |
‘We Fought the Nazis When Europe Worked for Hitler’ – Top 5 Highlights from Putin’s Victory Day Monologue From ensuring a “free, safe future for Russia” to accusing the West of colluding with the Nazis in WWII, here are five highlights from Putin’s speech on Victory Day. In First, Drone Attacks Oil Refinery in Russia’s Bashkortostan Thursday’s drone strike was the first to ever target the republic of Bashkortostan, which is located around 1,500 kilometers from the border with Ukraine. In early April, drones attacked Russia’s third-largest oil refinery in the neighboring republic of Tatarstan, some 1,300 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. Pentagon Teams Up with SpaceX to Block Russia from Using Starlink Pentagon officials working with Elon Musk's SpaceX have blunted the Russian military's unauthorized use of Starlink internet terminals on the battlefield in its war with Ukraine, according to the Defense Department's space policy chief. Mother of detained US soldier Gordon Black claims he was ‘lured’ to Russia by girlfriend "My motherly instincts told me something was wrong with her," Melody Jones said of her son's Russian girlfriend. |
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