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2024 election: Your guide to all the key primaries, debates and what happens next
Five states — Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas and Ohio — are holding primaries on Tuesday.
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South Africa's ruling ANC takes rival party to court in fractious buildup to election
South Africa's ruling African National Congress is taking the independent electoral body and a rival political party fronted by a former president to court, underscoring a fractious buildup to what could be the country's most pivotal election in 30 years. The ANC says the new uMkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation) party did not meet criteria when it was registered in September. The case at the Electoral Court in the central city of Bloemfontein opened on Tuesday.
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Olympic law rewrite calls for public funding for SafeSport and federal grassroots sports office
A proposed rewrite of the law governing the Olympics in the United States calls on public funding for the embattled U.S. Center for SafeSport while also forming a new government office to oversee grassroots sports that have long been attached to the Olympics themselves. The word “amateur” would be stripped from the law's title and would also be removed throughout the legislation in a nod to the reality that professional athletes have been integral to the modern-day Olympics for at least four de
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US farms are increasingly reliant on contract workers who are acutely exposed to climate extremes
Now he typically hires about 22 every year through a local coordinator that helps farmers hire crews of agriculturally skilled, often Latino workers. “I worry about the day that comes where it’s a better choice to have contract laborers come and help me” year-round, he said. A higher proportion of U.S. farms are now using contract workers, according to the most recent U.S. agricultural census data, out last month with a five-year update from the previous 2017 data.
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Starbucks To Bargain With Delegates From Its 400 Unionized Stores
The bargaining sessions scheduled for late April are meant to set a framework for union contracts around the country.
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Iraq's former defense minister wanted in Sweden for fraud is arrested at the Stockholm airport
Iraq’s former defense minister, who holds dual Iraqi-Swedish citizenship, has been arrested in Sweden, authorities said Tuesday. Prosecutor Jens Nilsson told Swedish broadcaster SVT that Najah al-Shammari has been wanted for almost a year and a half. The prosecutor told broadcaster TV4 that al-Shammari was arrested on Monday at the Stockholm airport by upon arrival in Sweden.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro is indicted for first time over alleged falsification of his own vaccination data
Brazil’s Federal Police have accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of criminal association and falsifying his own COVID-19 vaccination data, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader with others potentially in store. The Supreme Court released the police's indictment on Tuesday that alleges Bolsonaro and 16 others inserted false information into the public health database to make it appear as though the then-president, his 12-year-old daughter and several others in his c
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