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Facebook owner chops more than 1,500 Bay Area jobs as tech layoffs soar

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:59:21 GMT

Facebook app owner Meta Platforms has disclosed plans to chop more than 1,500 jobs in the Bay Area, layoffs that suggest the region’s waves of tech cutbacks have yet to relent.The most recent Meta Platform layoffs are slated to affect the tech company’s workers in Menlo Park, Sunnyvale, Burlingame, San Francisco and Fremont, according to WARN notices filed on April 24 with the state Employment Development Department.Meta Platforms has now revealed plans to eliminate slightly over 4,000 jobs in the Bay Area, based on filings during 2022 and so far in 2023.During late 2022, Meta Platforms revealed plans to chop 2,564 jobs in the same five cities as the latest round of layoffs. The 1,506 layoffs that Meta Platforms disclosed in April means that the tech titan has decided to chop 4,070 jobs in the Bay Area, this news organiztion’s review of the EDD WARN notices shows.The most recently disclosed layoffs are slated to occur around June 23. Some of the Menlo Park layoffs ...

Trader Joe's union vote at Oakland location certified by National Labor Relations Board

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:59:21 GMT

(BCN) -- The National Labor Relations Board certified the newly formed union of employees at an Oakland Trader Joe's Friday. Employees at the store on College Avenue voted 73-53 on April 20 to become the first Trader Joe's location in California, and fourth in the nation, to unionize. Caught on Video: French bulldog stolen during smash-and-grab in Oakland "We are thrilled to be certified and can't wait to sit at the bargaining table and work toward a contract that will improve our pay, benefits, and working conditions," said Dominique Bernardo, a crew member and organizer at the Oakland store. The store joins three others around the country that have joined the Trader Joe's United union. Trader Joe's has filed objections to one of those elections, at a store in Kentucky, and a final ruling is still pending. The certification of the Oakland vote by the labor board means that Trader Joe's must negotiate a new contract in good faith with the union, which will join negotiations...

Redwood City police search for suspect in fatal hit-and-run

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:59:21 GMT

(KRON) -- The Redwood City Police Department is searching for information on a suspect connected to a deadly hit-and-run that happened in March. Officials said the incident occurred on March 31 around 9:23 p.m.The hit-and-run took place on the 1100 block of Veterans Boulevard near Walnut Street and Maple Street. KRON4 previously reported that officers responded to a collision involving a bicyclist and a vehicle. Pedestrian killed in crash in San Jose Police said they have limited information on the suspect. But they believe the suspect vehicle is a late 1990's Toyota or Honda sedan, either gold or white in color. There is no description of the driver available.If anyone has any information regarding this case, contact Detective James Schneider at 650-780-7607.

Review: In ‘Homegrown,’ Jeffrey Toobin looks at far right

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:59:21 GMT

“Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism,” by Jeffrey Toobin (Simon & Schuster)In the nearly three decades that have passed since the Oklahoma City bombing, one of the most chilling aspects of the attack is how Timothy McVeigh was radicalized into the domestic terrorist he became.The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building that killed 168 people occurred long before 4chan, Twitter or Facebook. Instead, McVeigh and coconspirator Terry Nichols connected with extremist voices through much simpler means such as gun shows, right-wing publications and radio programs.In “Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism,” legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin provides the most authoritative and compelling history of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to date. But what makes it such a gripping read is how Toobin puts the attack in context of an extremist, anti-government movement that has accelerated in the Internet age and eventually led to the Jan. 6 insurrec...

The race to the Stanley Cup filled with first-round chaos

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:59:21 GMT

Chaos is usually the name of the game in the first round of the NHL playoffs, with eight series rolling and plenty of upsets. This year was no different.The Presidents’ Trophy-winning Boston Bruins who set records for the best regular season in hockey history? Gone.The defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche? Also gone.The Tampa Bay Lightning who had gone to the final each of the past three years? You guessed it, gone.The Toronto Maple Leafs are now the favorites to win the team’s first championship since 1967, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, fresh off winning their first playoff series in nearly two decades. Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers are also favored to come out of the West in another bid to end Canada’s 30-year Cup drought.With the exception of the 2020 bubble and 2021 season with only in-division play, the league has bracketed its playoffs and not reseeded after the first round since 2014. That system had led to plenty of griping about to...

Moore se compromete a firmar leyes para el control de armas en Maryland

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:59:21 GMT

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — El gobernador de Maryland, Wes Moore, anunció el jueves que planea firmar medidas de control de armas aprobadas por los legisladores en respuesta a un fallo de la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos el año pasado.El fallo del tribunal superior en Nueva sobre el caso New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen puso fin a un requisito similar a una ley de Maryland para que las personas demuestren una necesidad particular de obtener una licencia para portar un arma oculta en público.“Estamos revisando y verificando la constitucionalidad ahora, pero sí, planeo firmarlos pronto”, anticipó Moore.Una de las medidas elimina el lenguaje de “razón buena y sustancial” de la ley de Maryland que el tribunal consideró inconstitucional en el caso Bruen. Pero la Asamblea General de Maryland, controlada por los demócratas, también endureció las leyes sobre armas en otros aspectos. Por ejemplo, los legisladores aprobaron una medida que evitaría que alguien porte...

Palestinian boy mauled to death by lion in private Gaza zoo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:59:21 GMT

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian boy was mauled to death by a lion in a private zoo in the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the coastal territory’s police force, run by the militant Hamas group. Police officers said 6-year-old Hamada Iqtiet had climbed the fence in the zoo in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, and reached an opening in the cage before the lion mauled him. An investigation was underway, they said.The boy’s family disputed the account, saying Hamada — who was visiting the Asdaa Park with his mother and other family members, according to relatives — had only reached an outer fence, where the lion was standing, when he was attacked.It was the first known fatality from animals kept at private zoos in the crowded and impoverished Palestinian territory. Gaza has several small private zoos where animals are kept in deplorable conditions. The animals have suffered from repeated fighting between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers, neglect, starvation a...

Judge blocks Missouri rule that would limit transgender care

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:59:21 GMT

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge on Monday temporarily blocked a first-of-its-kind rule that would restrict access to gender-affirming health care to children and adults, just hours before it was set to take effect.St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Ribaudo issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule until a lawsuit challenging it is resolved.In her ruling, Ribaudo wrote that those suing to block the ruling from taking effect “will be subjected to immediate and irreparable loss, damage or injury if the Attorney General is permitted to enforce the Emergency Rule, and its broad, sweeping provisions were implemented without further fact-finding or evidence.”She wrote that patients “are at high risk of having their medical care interrupted for an unknown length of time; once the Rule goes into effect, they may lose access to medical care through their current providers until such time as the provider can ...

Democratic Sen. Cardin of Maryland announces retirement

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:59:21 GMT

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland announced Monday that he will not seek reelection at the end of his third term in 2024, triggering what is likely to be a highly competitive primary to replace him in the blue-leaning state.“I am proud of all I have done for Maryland. I have given my heart and soul to our great state, and I thank Marylanders for trusting me as your representative for all these years,” the 79-year-old said in a statement. Cardin has served in the Senate since 2006 when he won a seat to replace retiring Democrat Paul Sarbanes. Before that, he was a congressman who represented a large part of Baltimore and several nearby suburbs, winning his first U.S. House race in 1986.During his tenure in the Senate, Cardin has been a leader in health care, retirement security, the environment and fiscal issues. The senator has also been a leading advocate for clean water and the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary, which flows through his h...

US House speaker in Knesset amid fraught US-Israel ties

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:59:21 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. House speaker addressed Israel’s parliament on Monday, a rare honor awarded to the highest-ranking Republican in U.S. politics at a time of fraught relations between Israel’s government and Democratic President Joe Biden.Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portrayed the speech as a nod to bipartisan U.S. support for Israel as it marks 75 years since its creation. Critics say the platform given to McCarthy — he’s only the second House speaker to address the Knesset, after Newt Gingrich in 1998 — is a pointed jab at Biden.McCarthy spoke to the Knesset, greeted by frequent applause and a standing ovation, as lawmakers returned from a month-long recess. They are expected to resume the fight over a contentious plan, promoted by the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, to overhaul the judiciary. The plan has split Israelis and drawn a rare public rebuke from Biden. Amid the tensions, Biden has so far denied Netany...