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Overnight News Digest October 11, 2022 [1]

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Date: 2022-10-11

Chicago Sun-Times: Amazon workers walk off the job in Joliet by David Roeder

Amazon employees at an important distribution hub in Joliet walked off the job Tuesday, calling attention to their demands for higher pay and new workplace safety rules. The walkout by some employees on the day shift was timed to disrupt the retailer’s operations during its Prime Day promotion, which lasts Tuesday and Wednesday. It was part of a national pressure campaign, supported by pro-labor groups, that included job actions near Atlanta and a walkout planned Friday in San Bernardino, California. Organizers said more than 600 workers in Joliet signed a petition demanding that the company raise base hourly wages to $25. Amazon has said it has raised average starting pay for warehouse staff to $19 an hour. The workers also are demanding a more robust company response to death threats directed at Black employees that they said were posted in an employee washroom last May. Cesar Escutia, a warehouse associate for about three months at Amazon, said a manager was dismissive about the threats despite widespread employee concerns. Escutia also said his hourly wage is $18.50.

LAWeekly: White House Calls On L.A. City Council Members to Resign by Isai Rocha

The Biden Administration suggested the Los Angeles City Council members involved in a recently leaked racially insensitive conversation, should resign. During a Tuesday media briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden heard the audio and felt that Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo, should all resign. “The president is glad to see that one of the participants in that conversation has resigned, but they all should. He believes that they all should resign,” White House “The language that was used and tolerated in that conversation was unacceptable and it was appalling. They should all step down.” President Biden joins a list of officials calling for their resignations, which include multiple L.A. City Council members, multiple L.A. County Supervisors, Mayor Eric Garcetti and both 2022 Los Angeles mayoral candidates.

x Woman at LA City Council meeting:



“First of all - fuck you. Fuck De Leon. Fuck Nury, and fuck Cedillo. Fuck this whole meeting.” 💀 pic.twitter.com/2jBMhioBJv — chris evans (@notcapnamerica) October 11, 2022

The guidance from the Florida Health Department came in a terse release at 6:12 on Friday evening, ahead of a three-day weekend: Joseph A. Ladapo, the state’s top health official, warned young adult men to stop taking coronavirus vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, citing an “abnormally high risk” of heart-related deaths. a short state analysis that has not been peer-reviewed, carries no authors and warns that its findings are “preliminary” and “should be interpreted with caution” — was swiftly condemned by medical and public health leaders, who said the Florida surgeon general’s announcement was politics masquerading as science and could lead Americans to forgo lifesaving interventions. But Ladapo’s recommendation — extrapolated fromthat has not been peer-reviewed, carries no authors and warns thatits findings are “preliminary” and “should be interpreted with caution” — was swiftly condemned by medical and public health leaders, who said the Florida surgeon general’s announcement was politics masquerading as science and could lead Americans to forgo lifesaving interventions. More than a dozen experts interviewed by The Washington Post — including specialists in vaccines, patient safety and study design — listed concerns with Florida’s analysis, saying it relies on information gleaned from frequently inaccurate death certificates rather than medical records, skews the results by trying to exclude anyone with covid-19 or a covid-related death, and draws conclusions from a total of 20 cardiac-related deaths in men 18 to 39 that occurred within four weeks of vaccination. Experts noted the deaths might have been caused by other factors, including underlying illnesses or undetected covid. NBC News: Justice Department urges Supreme Court to reject Trump request over seized Mar-a-Lago documents by Lawrence Hurley The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject former President Donald Trump's request to give the special master reviewing documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate access to those marked as classified. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said in court papers that Trump would suffer "no harm at all" if the documents are temporarily withheld from the special master. Addressing Trump's potential ownership stake in the documents, including possible assertions of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege, Prelogar said Trump had "no plausible claims." Whatever the court decides in weighing Trump’s relatively narrow request, it will not affect the Justice Department’s access to the same documents in its criminal investigation. The more than 100 classified documents are just a small part of the 11,000 records federal agents seized amid concerns that Trump had unlawfully retained official White House records after he left office.

Guardian: Zelenskiy asks G7 for monitoring of Ukraine’s border with Belarus by Peter Beaumont and Julian Borger

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has asked G7 leaders to supply more air defence systems and for an international monitoring mission on the Belarusian border, as Russia continued to attack key infrastructure in Ukraine with a new wave of missile strikes on Tuesday. Zelenskiy’s comments came amid warnings from the UN and some Nato countries that Moscow may be committing a war crime with its continuing deadly blitz on civilian targets. Warning that the Russian president “still has room for further escalation”, Zelenskiy added that the prompt supply of more air defence systems would accelerate the end of the war. “When Ukraine receives a sufficient quantity of modern and effective air defence systems, the key element of Russia’s terror, rocket strikes, will cease to work,” Zelenskiy said in a video-streamed address.

BBC News: Iran protests: Alarm at crackdown by security forces in Kurdish city

Human rights activists have expressed alarm at a crackdown on protests in a Kurdish-populated city in western Iran. Amnesty International said there were reports that security forces had used firearms indiscriminately in Sanandaj. Kurdish group Hengaw posted a video which it said showed police shooting at homes in the city and another in which gunfire and cries could be heard. It reported that at least five civilians had been killed and 400 injured across the region since Sunday. But it warned that the death toll might be higher because authorities were disrupting local internet and mobile networks. Protests against the clerical establishment have swept across Iran since the death three weeks ago of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman from the western city of Saqqez who fell into a coma after being detained by morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating the strict hijab law.

The Hollywood Reporter: Angela Lansbury, Entrancing Star of Stage and Screen, Dies at 96 by Mike Barnes

Angela Lansbury, the irrepressible three-time Oscar nominee and five-time Tony Award winner who solved 12 seasons’ worth of crimes as the novelist/amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher on CBS’ Murder, She Wrote, has died. She was 96. Lansbury, who received an Emmy nomination for best actress in a drama series for each and every season of Murder, She Wrote — yet never won — died in her sleep at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, her family announced. She was five days shy of her birthday. Lansbury went 0-for-18 in career Emmy noms but did get some love from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who gave her an honorary Oscar in 2013 for her career as “an entertainment icon who has created some of cinema’s most memorable characters, inspiring generations of actors.” The London-born Lansbury , then 19, received a best supporting actress Oscar nom for her very first film role, as the young maid Nancy in the home of Charles Boyer and his new bride Ingrid Bergman in George Cukor’s Gaslight (1944). Gaslight

x #Alabama drops two spots to No. 3 in the AP Top 25 Poll following its 24-20 home win over Texas A&M.



1. Georgia (32)

2. Ohio State (20)

3. Alabama (11)

4. Clemson

5. Michigan

6. Tennessee

7. USC

8. Oklahoma State

9. Ole Miss

10. Penn State — Charlie Potter (@Charlie_Potter) October 9, 2022

#10 Penn State @ # 5 Michigan

#3 Alabama @ #6 Tennessee

#8 Oklahoma State at #13 TCU

Just some of the marquee games this coming weekend.

Have a good evening, everyone!

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