California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping new labor law Wednesday extending wage and benefit protections to about a million workers and aimed primarily at drivers contracted by ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft. Newsom had argued that when workers are misclassified as independent contractors rather than as employees, they lose basic benefits such…
Anxious about their future on a hotter planet and angry at world leaders for failing to arrest the crisis, masses of young people poured into the streets on every continent on Friday for a day of global climate protests. Organizers estimated the turnout to be around four million in thousands of cities and towns worldwide….
NEW YORK—Following her U.N. address about the existential threat posed by a rapidly warming planet, citizens across the United States confirmed Monday they were perplexed by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old who apparently has no desire to see the world end. “I know she’s from another country, but she’s still a teenager, right?”…
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — There was a strange atmosphere at the edge of Africa. Cloudless skies and balmy spring breezes greeted the delegations of regional and business leaders who met last week for a major annual summit on the future of the continent. But they gathered in a city reeling from trauma. After news…
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, clashed in personal terms Wednesday over calls for universal background checks and other gun control measures in the wake of the mass shooting in Texas that left seven dead and at least 25 injured. Ocasio-Cortez went after Crenshaw for a tweet about a Houston-area woman who used a handgun to…
