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Uber and Lyft drivers across California gathered in Los Angeles on Tuesday, where they claimed what they call one of the "largest new organizing victories in modern labor history." Members of the California Gig Workers Union said they expect to be certified as the collective bargaining representative for California Uber and Lyft drivers after a 30-day waiting period. They say they were informed that they'd reached the threshold required to represent California drivers by the Public Employment Relations Board on Friday. ... In statements, Uber and Lyft vowed to work closely with the newly formed union. "This certification is the...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Perseverance Pays Off! Airman 1st Class Aaron Aliou, 341st Medical Group Aerospace Medical Technician, poses for a picture as a child with his family in Senegal. This was the last time Aliou saw his mother until 16 years later when he and his siblings joined her in the United States. (Courtesy Photo) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. ”Old Crow” Leading The Way! A P-51 Mustang conducts flybys as part...

Paramount Skydance (PSKY.O), is keeping all options, including a possible sale of CNN, "on the table" to resolve California's antitrust suit challenging ​its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O), the company's ‌chief legal officer said. Speaking at Politico's California Agenda conference on Tuesday, Makan Delrahim also became the first Paramount executive to publicly acknowledge the Los Angeles-based company may ​leave California, after recent media reports cited unnamed sources about a potential ​relocation.

Here’s a bit of appalling footage showing just who the Democratic Party is choosing to associate with in 2026. The Michigan Senate race sees Republican candidate Mike Rogers taking on Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, the latter of whom has garnered attention for a myriad of reasons, his association with popular leftist internet personality Hasan Piker among them. For those unfamiliar with Piker, he’s a millionaire Marxist nepo-baby who gained notoriety through working for his uncle, Cenk Uygur of left-wing media outlet The Young Turks. Piker is not the most discerning, articulate, cunning, or even presentable figure. When watching him, the viewer...

A Denver District Court judge has given Secretary of State Jena Griswold until Thursday to comply with an open records request, or she could be held in contempt. The records involve consulting work, paid for with public funds. Griswold's office says it doesn't have the documents and it refuses to ask the consultant for them, claiming that would impose an undue "burden." Instead, the Secretary of State's office sent four employees and the Attorney General's Office sent three attorneys to court. The consultant was brought in two years after Griswold became Secretary of State. The office had become a revolving...

They can't win without CHEATING! The modern Democrat Party is completely LAWLESS. Former Lumberton Township Mayor and current Committeewoman Gina LaPlaca, along with her husband, Democratic operative Jason Carty, are facing a new round of criminal charges after prosecutors say they submitted fraudulent signatures to place LaPlaca on the June Democratic primary ballot for the Lumberton Township Committee. Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw’s office announced the charges this week. An investigation found that multiple people whose names and purported signatures appeared on LaPlaca’s nominating petition never signed it and never authorized anyone to sign on their behalf. Without those...

Police say “graphic and dark” evidence leads them to believe two women were killed in Eugene and Raymond Horsch's house. Philadelphia police now believe at least two women were killed inside the decrepit Olney home at the center of a sprawling missing persons investigation, officials said Wednesday — a stunning breakthrough in a probe that began nearly two months ago after a chance encounter near Independence Mall. Inspector Raymond Evers said homicide detectives had recovered photos and videos on hard drives inside the home that appeared to show the deaths of two women who had been reported missing — neither...

DSA is an amalgamation of progressive, socialist, communist, open borders mayhem, and Muslim ideology including “free Palestine.” This movement offers disturbing changes based on their platform (www.program.dsausa.org), TV interviews, history of such movements, and logical inference: 1. DSA proponents have said they want to disband the U.S. Senate, the Supreme Court, and the Electoral College with the Presidential elections decided by the House of Representatives. Why is that? Because they want a one-party system of government with elections ultimately controlled by themselves. Thus, they would dismantle our system of checks and balances built into America’s Constitution―desiring instead a government modeled...

Condo owners in a section of southeast Minneapolis say they are being held hostage by groups of teens with guns. They say the intersection of Sixth Avenue and Second Street turns into a war zone when darkness falls Thursday through Sunday nights

Two people were killed Wednesday when a Fort Hood AH-64 Apache attack helicopter violently crashed into a field in Central Texas, sparking a wildfire that forced evacuations and sent emergency crews racing to the scene, authorities said. Bell County Sheriff's Office spokesman Cliff Coleman said authorities received the call about the crash at approximately 1:34 p.m. The helicopter went down in a field south of Salado, roughly 30 minutes from Fort Hood. KWTX reported the crash occurred off Dove Hollow Lane. Coleman described the crash as violent and confirmed two people were killed. No one else was injured. Coleman identified...

With election officials insisting there was nothing really seriously wrong, results in Tuesday’s primaries in Milwaukee were delayed by what was labeled “human error.” Milwaukee Election Commissioner Paulina Gutierrez said that when she arrived at the Milwaukee County Courthouse to hand off about 28,000 absentee ballots, five of nine USB drives she brought with her contained the wrong data. Election audit logs, not ballot results, were on the drives, she said, according to Urban Milwaukee.

With recent wildfires causing widespread destruction in Southern California, how would you feel about someone profiting off of the devastating loss of your home or community? It turns out, people are placing bets on wildfires on prediction markets like Polymarket, and now California lawmakers are calling for a crackdown on the concerning new trend, warning those bets could create an incentive for arson. ... They’re urging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to implement what they call “common sense guardrails” to prevent people from profiting off of the suffering and devastation on digital gambling sites. “It’s important to point out that...

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Though the terms are often used interchangeably, coffins and caskets are actually completely different things. The same goes for ghosts and ghouls, though I have to admit that the difference between the latter pair is significantly gorier. And since we’re on the subject of spooky, not-quite synonyms, I wondered – wait, are cemeteries the same thing as graveyards? Apparently, not, it seems. Though both refer to burial sites for the dead, they are actually distinct (I had no idea). What’s the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s site, it has to do with size,...

For over two years, a 16-year-old transgender girl says she was bullied, excluded and discriminated against by her teammates and coaches at the Capital Crew youth rowing program housed at the Sacramento State Aquatic Center.

Videos found at a "mystery house" in Philadelphia's Olney neighborhood show two missing women who are believed to be dead, investigators revealed Wednesday. Philadelphia Police Inspector Raymond Evers shared new details during an afternoon press conference on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. Evers broke down what started this extensive investigation and what detectives have found so far This all began on June 19, 2026, when a park ranger stopped a BMW on the 600 block of Market Street near Independence Mall that had a male driver and female passenger inside, Evers said. The driver was identified as 44-year-old Eugene Horsch, officials...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholic governor met Pope Francis, then signed abortion up to birth — Excommunication?Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a law that removes the requirement for specific medical justification for abortions after 24 weeks. She is Catholic. She met with Pope Francis in 2024 and spoke of caring for “the most vulnerable among us.” Now she has celebrated the expansion of abortion access up to birth.Archbishop Richard Henning of Boston called the law a “grave offense against the sanctity and dignity of every person” and urged Catholics to continue proclaiming the value of life. But many Catholics are demanding stronger...

The Fifth Circuit restored nine provisions of Texas's 2021 election law, including mail-ballot ID and voter-assistance rules, largely finding that groups challenging them under federal disability laws lacked standing. Judge Oldham said the challengers lacked standing to attack Texas's mail-ballot ID rules because they failed to show that any member faced a substantial risk of future harm. The court noted ID-related rejection rates fell from 11-12% to 2.7% The court also rejected claims that groups had standing because they diverted resources to help voters comply. Citing the Supreme Court, Judge Oldham wrote that an organization cannot establish standing simply by...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has overtaken California Governor Gavin Newsom in prediction market odds for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination for the first time, according to data from Polymarket highlighted Wednesday by the political-tracking account InteractivePolls. The market showed Ocasio-Cortez at 18 percent, narrowly ahead of Newsom at 17 percent. Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff ranked third at 16 percent, while former Vice President Kamala Harris stood at 8 percent. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro each came in at 5 percent. The shift marks a notable moment in the still-early race to shape the Democratic field ahead...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave that post by the end of August, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday. Leavitt’s departure was announced less than a month after she returned to the White House after having been on maternity leave for the birth of her daughter on May 1. Leavitt, 28, is resigning “so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect!” Trump said in a Truth Social post announcing her planned departure. The president said that Leavitt will become “one of my top outside advisors” and...