A lawsuit alleges that a boss at one facility “organized a cash-buy-in, winner-take-all, betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many plant employees would test positive.” During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, Tyson Foods supervisors bet money on how many workers at a pork processing plant in Iowa would be infected with […]
Adding to the mountain of evidence that “oil trains are a disaster for our health, our safety, and our climate”—an argument environmentalists have been making for years—a 31-car freight train derailed in Iowa and started leaking crude oil into floodwaters on Friday morning, forcing evacuations of nearby homes and raising concerns about drinking water contamination. The Sioux County Sheriff […]
U.S. billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump at first said he was honored to finish second in this week’s Republican presidential nomination caucuses in Iowa, but Wednesday he claimed the winner, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, “stole” the election. Trump, a flamboyant political novice, wrote a Twitter message alleging that Cruz, a conservative firebrand, “didn’t win […]
Saying that he does not think that he will be treated fairly by Megyn Kelly of Fox News, Donald Trump has announced that he will boycott Thursday’s Republican debate that is taking place just four days from the Iowa party caucuses. “He will not be participating in the Fox News debate on Thursday” said campaign […]