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Hollywood crew unions have endorsed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in her bid for reelection, claiming she has been committed to labor issues. The California IATSE Council, the political wing of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, endorsed Bass due to “her consistent commitment to labor and the issues affecting union workers.” “The same day, the American Federation of Musicians Local 47, representing a workforce of professional musicians including those working in film and television, also came out in favor of the incumbent mayor,” per The Hollywood Reporter (THR). In its explanation of its support, the California IATSE Council cited Bass’ frequent communication…

Fixing the acute demographic crisis would lessen the country’s dependence on a foreign workforce, Italian Deputy PM Antonio Tajani believes Italians should focus on having more children to replenish the country’s dwindling workforce so as to avoid bringing in more migrants in the future, Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has suggested.Over the past decade, Italy has had one of the lowest birthrates in Europe, and its demographic crisis continues to worsen. The country’s fertility rate hit a new record low last year, standing at 1.14, down from 1.18 the previous year, provisional figures from Italy’s national…

A major study from France’s premier public research institute found “a society profoundly marked by long-term immigration,” with around a third of the population estimated to have been born abroad or to have been the child or grandchild of immigrants. Research from the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris has perhaps provided the clearest picture of France’s demographic makeup, a country officially governed by a colourblind doctrine that prohibits the collection of racial or ethnic statistics in its census, making systematic tracking of immigrant groups difficult. According to the findings, which were based on interviews with 27,000 people in mainland France…

The CEO of fintech company Bolt revealed he fired his entire human resources department as part of sweeping layoffs, telling the audience at a Fortune magazine event the “HR team was creating problems that didn’t exist.” Ryan Breslow, Bolt’s 32-year-old co-founder and chief executive officer, announced at the Tuesday conference in Atlanta that he “got rid of our HR team,” and that the “problems disappeared when I let them go.” Bolt sliced its workforce by 30 percent in April after Breslow said productivity hit a slump. “We need a group of people who are very oriented around getting things done,…

Former comedienne Chelsea Handler is lashing out at comedians Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe over jokes they told at The Roast of Kevin Hart. “I knew enough about Tony [Hinchcliffe] and Shane [Gillis]… They’re racists, they’re bigots, they’re sexist… I don’t find those jokes funny. Lynching Black people is not a joke. It’s worse than rape… Them making fun of Sheryl Underwood’s dead husband who committed suicide is gross,” Handler went on. “You know, she’s fine with that. If she says she’s fine with that, she’s fine with that. I wasn’t fine with that. I wasn’t fine with that. There…

Washington is using a familiar script: Sanctions, then threats. Next comes force – under a trumped-up false pretext American imperialism may be absolutely lawless and perfectly immoral but it does have its favorite and predictable routines. One of them is what can be called the Washington Three-Step of ‘blockade, blackmail, invade’.The Three-Step is by no means foolproof. Witness, for instance, the recent de facto defeat of the US (and its occasional overlord Israel) at the hands of Iran, which even arch neocon warmonger Robert Kagan has as good as admitted in, of all places, The Atlantic. But failure has never…

A vaccine to tackle the runaway Ebola virus now surging through central Africa can be developed within 100 days, an international disease response group vowed Friday. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) funds the development of new vaccines and is looking at potential candidates for the Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no current known vaccine. Jane Halton, CEPI’s board chair, highlighted an urgent need for a vaccine, saying the number of cases recorded so far may be only the tip of the iceberg and a swift response is essential. “I can guarantee you that we will be in a…

Maine and New Hampshire have installed their first Safe Haven Baby Boxes, bringing the total number of states that offer the option to 26. The Safe Haven Baby Boxes organization announced the two new boxes last week, marking the first devices in New England, Live Action News reported. The boxes were recently installed in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Rumford, Maine.  Safe Haven Baby Boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns in unsafe places, potentially leaving them to die. Baby boxes are temperature-controlled incubators, often built into exterior walls of fire stations, police stations, and hospitals, and can…

A group of seven Spanish ex-nuns will face trial on charges of embezzlement and a litany of alleged abuse inflicted against five elderly nuns under their care, a Bilbao court ruled. The seven women are part of a group of excommunicated Poor Clare nuns of the Monastery of Belorado that declared in 2024 that they were leaving the Catholic Church to align with sedevacantist groups. Their schism led to a two-year battle over control of the monastery that culminated with their eviction from the historic building in March. The Spanish newspaper La Razón reported on Thursday that it obtained a copy of…

President Donald Trump attends the swearing-in ceremony of new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh on Friday, May 22. Warsh was confirmed by the Senate to replace outgoing Chairman Jerome Powell last week. Powell, who has clashed with President Trump, remained the temporary chairman between Warsh’s confirmation and today’s swearing-in. Read the full article here