Category: NEWS
Apple store employees vote to form their first US union
In a first for Apple in the United States, retail workers at a store in Maryland have voted to unionize. The vote comes as unionization efforts are gaining ground at some of the largest corporations in the US. …read more
A Father’s Day vintage cocktail to honor dad: Try the recipe
Father’s Day is Sunday, June 19, 2022, a time to honor the dads in our lives — and on this special occasion, one book author shares a timely cocktail recipe. …read more
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/fathers-day-vintage-cocktail-dad-recipe
LAPD form skirmish line after officers pummeled with fireworks, bottles during ‘street takeover’
Los Angeles “street takeover” drivers allegedly hurled fireworks, rocks and bottles at officers attempting to disperse crowds, forcing police to establish a skirmish line. …read more
https://www.foxnews.com/us/lapd-skirmish-line-officers-pummeled-fireworks-bottles-street-takeover
DW Global Media Forum discusses journalism in a time of crisis
Media experts from around the world are coming together in the former German capital Bonn for DW’s Global Media Forum. It offers a forum to debate the future of journalism in a time of wars, crises, and catastrophes. …read more
E-scooters were supposed to fix travel in Rome. Then they became ‘death traps’
Rome, the eternal city, has been invaded, conquered and pillaged countless times since its founding nearly 2,800 years ago. Each attack has left scars throughout the city, from the ruins of the Roman Forum to the cavern of the Circus Maximus where chariots once raced.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/rome-scooter-problems/index.html
Islamic State group claims responsibility for Kabul Sikh temple attack
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a Sikh temple in Afghanistan that killed one community member and a Taliban fighter, saying it was retaliation for insults against the Prophet Mohammed. …read more
Analysis: Colombia needs a leader who’ll implement the peace accord. For women, it’s a matter of life and death
Today, Colombians will return to the polls to vote in the second round of the country’s presidential elections. Six years after the peace deal between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) brought five decades of conflict to an end, voters will choose between two different futures for Colombia.
DeSantis draws huge cash haul from Trump donors
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Ron DeSantis gears up for a likely 2024 White House bid — with or without Donald Trump in the race — the Florida governor is winning over some of the former president’s biggest benefactors.
DeSantis has attracted the attention of some of the nation’s wealthiest Republican donors, including many who were key financiers of Trump’s reelection bid or backers of high profile Republican candidates and causes, according to POLITICO analysis of campaign finance data.
A DeSantis-aligned political committee, Friends of Ron DeSantis, has received $3.4 million this election cycle from 10 donors who collectively spent $24 million on Trump’s reelection bid. Most of the high-dollar donors had never given contributions in state-level Florida elections, while those who have previously provided funds have significantly increased their spending for DeSantis during the 2022 midterms.
Though many donors are focused on November, when the governor is up for reelection, DeSantis’ fundraising signals that he is both a viable 2024 candidate who may not need the former president’s backing and one who is sapping some financial support from Trump.
“I think Ron’s fundraising really speaks for itself,” said Francis Rooney, a former construction company owner, longtime Republican donor and former Florida congressman who was open to impeaching Trump in 2019. “It is possible Trump’s percentage of the Republicans keeps going down and I think it’s possible people will start looking elsewhere.”
DeSantis has already raised more than $100 million — a record setting pace for a single election cycle in Florida — and is an overwhelming favorite to win reelection this year, a victory that could leave him with a huge war chest as the 2024 election cycle begins.
DeSantis has long been expected to run for president in 2024 but over the past year has drastically expanded his national footprint and following among conservatives across the country, who were drawn to his anti-shut down Covid-19 policies and staunch opposition to pandemic-related mandates. He has recently started to run neck-and-neck with Trump or even beaten the former president in early 2024 straw polls, leaving some of the GOP’s biggest donors writing huge checks for DeSantis at a time when that could still come with political risk.
“I know a lot of donors who are kind of in wait-and-see mode,” said Shiree Verdone, who served as Trump’s campaign co-chair in Arizona for both his presidential campaigns. “They really, really like DeSantis, who is very popular, but you don’t want to upset Trump.”
Major Trump donors contributing to DeSantis since his 2018 campaign for governor includes William Buckley, a retired venture capitalist with a home in Lost Tree Village — a wealthy Palm Beach County enclave that’s home to some of the nation’s largest political donors. Buckley gave $1 million. Major GOP donor Richard Uihlein, an Illinois-based businessman who supported DeSantis in 2018, contributed $700,000 to the governor four years ago. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have given $1.2 million in 2022.
Since his first campaign for governor, DeSantis’ committee has also received $500,000 …read more
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/19/desantis-cash-trump-donors-00040659
Yellowstone National Park to partly reopen after catastrophic floods
Yellowstone National Park will partially reopen Wednesday after catastrophic flooding destroyed bridges and roads and drove out thousands of tourists. …read more
https://nypost.com/2022/06/19/yellowstone-national-park-to-partly-reopen-after-catastrophic-floods/
Where the Shelling Never Stops: On the ‘Zero Line’ With Ukrainian Soldiers Trying to Maintain in Donbas
Inside life in a bunker with Ukrainian Ph.D. students-turned-fighters as they attempt to hold on against overwhelming firepower and devastating Russian bombardment … https://news.yahoo.com/where-shelling-never-stops-zero-140820451.html