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Disney finds itself in balancing act amid walkout

With some workers across the U.S. threatening a walkout Tuesday, The Walt Disney Co. finds itself in a balancing act between the expectations of a diverse workforce and demands from an increasingly polarized, politicized marketplace. On the one side are activists and Disney employees calling for a walkout in protest… Read More

Ukraine retakes key Kyiv suburb as battle for Mariupol rages

Ukraine said it retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv early Tuesday, as Russian forces squeezed other areas near the capital and their attack on the embattled southern port of Mariupol raged unabated. Explosions and bursts of gunfire shook Kyiv, and black smoke rose from a spot in the north…. Read More

Embarrassing Kamala Harris video has critics roaring

On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Louisiana to tout last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law — and critics pounced on what she had to say. Harris was speaking about the law’s potential to provide high-speed broadband to rural areas, some of which have previously needed to access internet through… Read More

Republicans divided over Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Senate Judiciary Committee opened Supreme Court confirmation hearings Monday, with Republicans promising pointed questions for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and Democrats full of praise for the first Black woman nominated for the nation’s highest court. Jackson, 51, was to give her opening statement later Monday and answer questions on… Read More

Hospitalized Justice Thomas status updated by SCOTUS

Justice Clarence Thomas, who remains hospitalized in Washington, does not have COVID-19, the Supreme Court said Monday. The court provided no additional information about the infection that put Thomas in the hospital on Friday, other than to say he is responding to intravenous antibiotics. The 73-year-old justice has been vaccinated… Read More

Top GOP lawmaker dead at 88

Don Young, a blunt-speaking Republican and longest-serving member of Alaska’s congressional delegation, has died. He was 88. His office announced Young’s death in a statement Friday night. “It’s with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we announce Congressman Don Young, R-AK, the Dean of the House and revered champion for… Read More

Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized for medical emergency

Supreme Court Justice Thomas was rushed to the hospital and has remained there since Friday, according to the court. At 73, Thomas ranks as the current court’s second-oldest justice, behind only the retiring Stephen Breyer. Sponsored: Discover the 3 foods that contain powerful blood pressure-improving nutrients “Justice Clarence Thomas was… Read More

Russian astronauts: We inadvertently wore the Ukraine flag

When three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station wearing yellow flight suits with blue accents, some saw a message in them wearing the colors of the Ukrainian flag. They shot that down on Saturday. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev said each crew picks the color of the flight suits about… Read More