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A majority of Tesla Gigafactory Berlin workers voted against union representatives of IG Metall in their new work council, but the union has still made significant progress. Work councils in Germany work almost like little governments within companies to represent the workers. They can work with unions or be independent of them. Workers at Gigafactory Berlin had to vote on a new worker council yesterday. Tagesspiegel reports that IG Metall has made a lot of progress with taking about 40% of the…

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, riding high on his Super Tuesday blowout with his only contender Nikki Haley dropping out of the race, took to a podium in Rome, Georgia on Saturday for a “Get out the Vote Rally” as his Democratic opponent, President Joe Biden, also appeared in the battleground state in dueling campaign visits following Biden’s rousing State of the Union address. Self-awareness does not appear to be one of Trump’s finer suits, and this speech was no exception as he opened by…

For the past two decades, geologists have wrestled with whether humans have changed the planet enough to kick off a completely new epoch in geological time called the Anthropocene. Now, a subcommittee of Earth scientists has reportedly made a decision: No, we haven't.The results mean we're still living in the Holocene, an epoch that started with the end of the last ice age 11,700 years ago.The Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) voted on the proposed Anthropocene epoch over the past month, and the results were…

Killers of the Flower Moon actor Robert De Niro was very clear about his stance against ex-president Donald Trump when he made a special appearance on the HBO talk show Real Time with Bill Maher. Wholeheartedly dumping on Trump, he urged people to vote for Biden if “you wanna live in a world …we enjoy living in.” Associating “normalcy” with Biden's administration, he struck down hard on Trump's presidential post as one that unleashed a “nightmare”. “Vote for Trump, you'll get the nightmare,” began De Niro.…

TikTok accused U.S. Senators of staging a “predetermined” vote to ban the platform in the United States. Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on legislation that gives TikTok’s owner, China’s ByteDance, six months to divest the app. If it doesn’t, TikTok could be completely banned in the United States, losing its 150 million-strong user base in America. In response, the app suggested that the outcome of the vote was already decided and voiced concern that it would cost people their livelihoods.…

The U.S. House of Representatives will fast-track a vote next week on legislation that would give China's ByteDance six months to divest from short video app TikTok or face a U.S. ban after a committee unanimously approved the measure Thursday. The Energy and Commerce Committee 50-0 vote represents the most significant momentum for a U.S. crackdown on TikTok, which has about 170 million U.S. users, since then President Donald Trump unsuccessfully tried to ban the app in 2020.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill…

Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for North Carolina’s gubernatorial election, said he wanted to go back to a time “where women couldn’t vote” in a video that resurfaced in the wake of his Super Tuesday victory. The video, recorded at a Republican Women of Pitt County event in March 2020, shows Robinson when he was a candidate for North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, which he later won.  In the clip, he says that he heard a man ask about the phrase “Make America Great Again,” which he posited implied…

American Popstar Taylor Swift has always been vocal about her political ideology. As Super Tuesday is making extreme buzz in The United States, Taylor has urged her fans & followers to cast their vote for choosing their candidate (nominations) in the upcoming United States Presidential Elections 2024. Promoting the same, Swift posted an informative political awareness note on her Instagram Story. “Today, March 5, is the Presidential Primary in Tennessee and 16 other states and territories.” She added,…

Taylor Swift took time out on Super Tuesday to implore her fans to vote in the 2024 primary elections.“Today, March 5, is the presidential primary in Tennessee and 16 other states and territories. I wanted to remind you guys to vote the people who most represent YOU into power. If you haven’t already, make a plan to vote today,” Swift shared in a post on her Instagram Story.“Whether you’re in Tennessee or somewhere else in the US, check your polling place and times at Vote.org.”Swifties around the globe, who have been…

Taylor Swift made a bipartisan Super Tuesday push to her legions of fans to get out the vote on Instagram as primary races were taking place in 17 states and territories across the U.S. “Today, March 5, is the presidential primary in Tennessee and 16 other states and territories. I wanted to remind you guys to vote the people who most represent YOU into power. If you haven’t already, make a plan to vote today,” she wrote to her 282 million followers in an Instagram story. “Whether you’re in Tennessee or…