Small businesses are bracing for costly new legal battles born of this month’s Supreme Court ruling that expands workplace sex discrimination claims to include lesbian, gay and transgender employees. The decision threatens to hit some small businesses with litigation in an area that they haven’t had to deal with until now. Most big corporations —…
June 28, 2020 | 8:11am | Updated June 28, 2020 | 10:31am Enlarge Image A passenger gets tested at Bogor Station Railway, West Java, Indonesia Adriana Adie/Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic hit a grim milestone Sunday with 10 million cases worldwide — and the death toll closing in on 500,000, data shows. As of Sunday…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mississippi is the last state in the US to feature the Confederate emblem on its flag Politicians in the US state of Mississippi have taken a major step towards removing the Confederate emblem from the state flag.On Saturday, both chambers of the Republican-led state congress voted to begin the…
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U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…