#Remote employees work longer and harder, studies show

#Remote employees work longer and harder, studies show

Remote work became possible long before the pandemic. Many employers resisted it on a hunch that employees working from home might spend too much of their workday watching Oprah and shopping on eBay.  Then came COVID-19, which launched a vast, forced experiment in telework. The results are in: As it turns out, most remote workers…

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#Four things to know about the Texas A&M controversy

#Four things to know about the Texas A&M controversy

The president of Texas A&M University resigned on Thursday amid the fallout from the botched hiring of a Black editor to run the school’s journalism program. After publicly celebrating the hiring of former New York Times editor Kathleen McElroy with an official signing ceremony in June, the deal fell apart last week, with McElroy saying…

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#DeSantis claims White House ‘obsessed with Florida’ after Black history standards commentary

#DeSantis claims White House ‘obsessed with Florida’ after Black history standards commentary

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) shot back at the Biden administration after Vice President Harris called his new Black history education standards “propaganda.” “The Harris-Biden administration is obsessed with Florida…yet they ignore the chaos at the border, crime-infested cities, economic malaise, and the military recruitment crisis,” DeSantis tweeted on Friday, adding that Harris was lying….

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#FBI ‘expressly’ opposed GOP release of unverified Biden tip

#FBI ‘expressly’ opposed GOP release of unverified Biden tip

House Oversight Committee Republicans were admonished by the FBI several times ahead of taking the action the bureau warned against — publicly releasing unverified information gained through a confidential informant. The tip from the source — memorialized in an FD-1023 form — was never corroborated by the FBI, but it was nonetheless put into the public…

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#Senate takes up controversial defense bill after House brawl

#Senate takes up controversial defense bill after House brawl

Senate lawmakers are taking up their version of the annual defense policy bill, less than a week after their colleagues in the House pushed through a highly controversial and partisan version of the must-pass legislation. The Senate must reconcile its fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with the House’s by the end of September…

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