On Thursday morning, southwest Japan was struck by a strong and powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake that has left many dozens injured and homeless. The earthquake was so strong that it threw people around and shut down both electricity and water supplies. In the Japanese city of Kumamoto, the Red Cross reports that nearly 50 people …
On Thursday, hundreds of McDonald’s restaurants across the United States, as well as in many foreign locations, will be the sight of picketers and protesters. Employees at the world’s largest fast food chain are demanding a minimum wage of $15 per hour as well as the company recognizing their right to form a union. …
The state legislature of South Carolina has taken one step closer to making an unborn fetus declared a human at conception thus making abortion illegal in that state in the future. In a vote by the state legislature’s Senate Judiciary Committee, a measure was approved that will give unborn children legal status at conception. …
On Wednesday morning at 6AM, an estimated 40,000 Verizon Wireless employees on the East Coast went out on strike. Negotiations between the employees and the company have broken down and has initiated one of the largest labor strikes in American history. The 40,000 Verizon workers are represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and …
People who smoke, regardless of gender, are finding it more difficult to locate a job that those who don’t smoke. In addition, smokers tend to make more money than their non-smoking counterparts. That’s been the findings of some recent research just published in the Journal of the American Medical Society. The research was conducted …