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Month: January 2024

Small biz owners scale back their office space or go remote altogether. Some move to the suburbs

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The pandemic has had a transformative effect on the office space landscape. Many businesses are shifting away from traditional spaces toward hybrid work and more flexible, collaborative spaces. About 23% of U.S. office space is available, compared with 16% before the pandemic, according to global real

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Speaker Mike Johnson’s historically narrow majority has shrunk even further

By Clare Foran and Kristin Wilson, CNN House Speaker Mike Johnson is overseeing one of the smallest House majorities in history as Congress confronts upcoming battles over government funding and contentious fights over immigration and impeachment. Republicans currently control just 219 seats while Democrats control 213 after Ohio GOP Rep. Bill Johnson resigned from Congress earlier this

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House GOP threatens Harvard with subpoena, considers expanding antisemitism investigation to Cornell and Columbia

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Republican chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, is threatening to subpoena Harvard University for documents in what appears to be a widening investigation into alleged antisemitism on college campuses. “We thought Harvard would take this more seriously,” Foxx told CNN in

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There’s a wave of new bills to define antisemitism. In these 3 states, they could become law

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Lawmakers in more than a half-dozen U.S. states are pushing laws to define antisemitism, triggering debates about free speech and bringing complicated world politics into statehouses. Supporters say it’s increasingly important to add a definition that lays out how to determine whether some criticism of Israel also amounts to hatred

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Pro-Trump network OAN execs may have ‘engaged in criminal activities’ while promoting 2020 election lies, Smartmatic alleges

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — In the wake of the 2020 election, the president of the far-right network One America News sent a potentially explosive email to former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, with a spreadsheet claiming to contain passwords of employees from the voting technology company Smartmatic, according to court filings. The existence of

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France’s protesting farmers encircle Paris with tractor barricades, vowing a ‘siege’ over grievances

By SYLVIE CORBET and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press JOSSIGNY, France (AP) — Protesting farmers encircled Paris with traffic-snarling barricades Monday, using hundreds of lumbering tractors and mounds of hay bales to block highways leading to France’s capital to pressure the government over the future of their industry, which has been shaken by repercussions of the

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