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For the first time in Fenway Park’s 113-year history, concession and restaurant workers went on strike Friday as the Boston Red Sox begin a three-game series with the Los Angeles Dodgers.Members of UNITE HERE Local 26, who work for Aramark, providing food services in the historic ballpark and the neighboring MGM Music Hall, had set a strike deadline of noon …

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On Monday, the Department of Defense announced that it had awarded a massive new contract to build the nation’s largest migrant detention camp on the Fort Bliss military base, a facility that will play a key role in …

Agriculture Department to Move Most Remaining Washington Workers Out of City  The New York Times USDA to relocate more than half of D.C. area employees under reorganization plan  Federal News Network Outcry as US agriculture department to cut salaries and relocate staff  The Guardian USDA will relocate most of its D.C.-based workforce  The Washington Post USDA reorganization will move most of its Washington staff …

Christina Chapman, 50, an Arizona woman who pleaded guilty to charges connected to the global North Korean IT workers scheme, has been sentenced to 8.5 years in federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge Randolph D. Moss also ordered Chapman to forfeit proceeds of $284,000 that was to be paid to the North Koreans. She was also ordered to pay a …

Arizona woman sentenced to eight years in prison for hosting ‘laptop farm’ for North Korean remote workers  Politico Woman learns fate after DOJ guilty plea admitting she helped North Korean tech workers infiltrate US companies  Fox News US woman gets 8-year sentence for stealing identities to give North Koreans jobs  BBC Confessions of a Laptop Farmer: How an American Helped North Korea’s Wild …

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent  The New York Times 149 science agency staffers sign dissent letter against Trump  E&E News by POLITICO National Science Foundation staffers express concerns about ‘politically motivated and legally questionable’ Trump actions  The Hill Research halted by the Trump administration: ‘Sad and shocking’  ScienceNorway Federal Employee Protests Spread Across Scientific Agencies  NOTUS Source link

A Trump Executive Order Prompts Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans  The New York Times Brooks: Minnesota archivists scramble to document national park signs before they’re gone  Star Tribune Park Service Forced to Report Information on Slavery, Climate Change, For Potential Erasure from National Parks  National Parks Conservation Association Public outcry over NPS’ call for public input  Nichi Bei News Minnesota Group …

A group of 287 scientists and current and former NASA employees has issued a declaration lambasting budget cuts, grant cancellations and a “culture of organizational silence” that they say could pose a risk to astronauts’ safety. The document — titled “The Voyager Declaration” and dedicated to astronauts who lost their lives in tragic spaceflight incidents of the past — is …

CNN  —  A group of 287 scientists and current and former NASA employees has issued a declaration lambasting budget cuts, grant cancellations and a “culture of organizational silence” that they say could pose a risk to astronauts’ safety. The document — titled “The Voyager Declaration” and dedicated to astronauts who lost their lives in tragic spaceflight incidents of the past …

Employees at Starbucks’ corporate headquarters who are unhappy about CEO Brian Niccol’s strict return-to-office mandate are making their displeasure known. On Friday, a flyer created by “Partners for the Preservation of Starbucks Culture, Mission, and Values” was taped inside an elevator at the corporate offices in Seattle. Featuring two photos of Niccol and a list of grievances, the flyer calls …