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Supreme Court may be about to decide whether to hear a dispute over restrictions on transgender care for minors, potentially impacting laws in nearly half of states. LA Times
VOA VIEW: They should resolve the matter.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., called for the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and charge him with committing genocide during the Israel-Hamas war. Newsmax
VOA VIEW: Tlaib is a liberal racialist idiot.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) has made good on its promise to "protect the ballot" by engaging in another voter integrity case in the 2024 election cycle. Newsmax
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Traces of banned Chinese cotton were found in 19% of a sample of merchandise selling at U.S. and global retailers in the past year, highlighting the challenges of complying with the U.S. law aimed at blocking imports of cotton linked to forced labor. Newsmax
VOA VIEW: It should be banned.
Bipartisan members of Congress are seeking a refund on U.S. aid that was given to a controversial United Nations agency this year. Newsmax
VOA VIEW: As they should.
Revelations that the boxes of files recovered from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home were altered or manipulated. Newsmax
VOA VIEW: Smith is a deceptive idiot.
A Manhattan judge denied Donald Trump's bid for a mistrial over Stormy Daniels' salacious testimony but acknowledged she was a "difficult" witness to control. New York Post
VOA VIEW: The Judge is a liberal cheat.
The Biden administration is due to release a report this week on whether it believes assurances from Israel on its use of U.S. arms and protection of civilians. New York Times
VOA VIEW: Biden is a lying fool.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing to add language to the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration that would halt expansion of the technology. New York Times
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A long-awaited new policy broadens the type of regulated viruses, bacteria, fungi and toxins, including those that could threaten crops and livestock. New York Times
The Boy Scouts of America, a staple of youth organizations for over a century, is renaming itself Scouting America. Washington Times
The Israeli women and girls raped and taken hostage by Hamas have never received the same international support as the #MeToo and #BringBackOurGirls campaigns, a double standard that one women's organization seeks to rectify. Washington Times
VOA VIEW: Women groups are failing Israeli women.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she regrets making an offhand remark that suggested Black children in the Bronx do not know what the word "computer" means. Washington Times
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Thirteen federal judges said Monday in a letter to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik that they won't hire law clerks from the institution over its handling of the pro-Palestine protests that the judges said "threatened violence, committed assaults, and destroyed property." Washington Times
VOA VIEW: As they should.
The lawsuit claims that the measure, signed into law by President Biden, is unconstitutional. CBS
VOA VIEW: More reason for TIKTOK to be banned,
Approximately 450 planes potentially could be involved. CBS
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President Biden delivered the keynote address at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Annual Day of Remembrance Celebration. CBS
VOA VIEW: Biden is despicable himself.
The journal Environmental Science and Technology is raising concerns about toxic chemicals coming from the seats inside of cars. Most seats are treated with flame-retardant chemicals because of a federal fire safety standard. The new study found those chemicals in the air inside of cars, which means drivers or passengers could be inhaling them. CBS
VOA VIEW: Safety gone crazy.
A brighter economic outlook has helped push Social Security's projected trust fund depletion date to a year later. CNBC
VOA VIEW: Biden is the main cause.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Maine woman who claimed that school officials encouraged her teen's gender expression without consulting her. FOX News
VOA VIEW: A bad judgment.
California reported its first increase in groundwater supplies in years after downpours flooded the state's rivers; groundwater supplies are essential to growing much of the fresh produce in the U.S. FOX News
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The 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival drew half a million people, making it the second-most-highly attended year in the festival's history. FOX News
The security service of war-torn Ukraine revealed a foiled assassination plot on President Volodymyr Zelelsky and other top officials by two undercover Ukranian colonels. UPI
VOA VIEW: Madness thanks to Russia.
The White House announced on Tuesday that it will take additional steps to tackle anti-Semitism. UPI
VOA VIEW: Time will tell talk or BS.
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Israel's military on Tuesday said it launched an operation into Rafah overnight and gained control of the Gazan border crossing with Egypt. UPI
The Biden administration on Monday announced it will grant $285 million from CHIPS and Science Act funding for a first-of-its-kind institute to develop digital twins for the chip manufacturing industry. UPI
VOA VIEW: Designed to gain for Biden.
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Companies are using a specific legal stipulation to force their former employees to repay training costs, sometimes to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. You make a deal, you keep it or reimburse what you got paid.
Training reimbursement agreements require employees to pay back training costs if they leave within a certain period after their hiring. The Skin Cancer Institute in Delano, California, for example, filed a lawsuit against a former employee in August claiming she owed $38,000 in training costs and $100,000 for loss of business. "I thought there was nothing that could happen that would make me want to leave the contract early," the employee, Drew Lakey, told The New York Times. Nearly 10% of workers reported being covered by training reimbursement agreements in 2020, according to the Cornell Survey Research Institute. Further, a survey of 1,700 nurses found that more than a third were subjected to such agreements.
"They’re just becoming ubiquitous," Ashley Tremain, an employment lawyer in Texas, said, "as people are trying to find creative ways to move around noncompete restrictions." Tremain noticed that the use of the agreements began rising five or six years ago. Now workers contact her about them several times a month, most commonly owing $20,000. "It’s really an enormous amount of power that the employer holds in that situation," Tremain told the New York Times. Employers, however, believe the costs are justified.
"When the employee is going through the training voluntarily, primarily for their own benefit, in those situations, as a rule, the repayment obligation would be enforceable, and would be legal," Dan Pyne, a lawyer who has written and represented companies enforcing agreements, said. "When the training is required by the employer, that is the employer’s cost of doing business."
