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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has asked Congress for a lifeline amid the coronavirus pandemic that has caused applications to plummet and brought it to the brink of insolvency.A naturalization ceremony in 2019 administered by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Los Angeles. Credit...Etienne Laurent/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockMay 17, 2020LOS ANGELES — A precipitous drop in applications for…
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Donald Trump has hit back at Barack Obama’s criticism of his administration’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, accusing the former US president of being “grossly incompetent” during his time in office. It is rare for a former president to rebuke a successor, but Obama did so during an online speech to graduating university and high…
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“Big is bad.”That’s the standard refrain Temple Grandin hears when she lectures students at Colorado State University on the complexities of meat processing plants.Her standard retort: “Big isn’t bad. Badly managed is bad.”For years, she has driven home this point: that even in a rapidly consolidating sector, where many small plants processing 500 head of…
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In my January 15 column, I had discussed the death of employment law, but, as Mark Twain put it, “the reports of (its) death are greatly exaggerated.”Whether my comments were prescient or premature, employment lawyers have now been resuscitated by COVID-19.There has long been a delicate dance in my field perpetrated by its bar. The…
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WASHINGTON — U.S. retail sales endured a second straight month of record declines in April as the novel coronavirus pandemic kept Americans at home, putting the economy on track for its biggest contraction in the second quarter since the Great Depression.The Commerce Department said on Friday retail sales plunged 16.4 per cent last month, the…
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Johnny Nunez/WireImage In February, rising Brooklyn drill rapper Pop Smoke was shot and killed during an apparent home invasion in the Hollywood Hills. He had spent the preceding months spreading his deep, gravelly voice across songs with Nav, Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, and more, and though he'd dropped two successful and well-received mixtapes, he still…
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