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9 12, 2025

Swiss Insurer Helvetia Baloise to Cut Up to 2,600 Jobs Following Merger

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Newly created Swiss insurer Helvetia Baloise plans to cut up to 2,600 jobs in the coming years to boost profitability, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. Switzerland’s largest multi-line insurer, with a combined market cap of …

9 12, 2025

Trump Ban on Wind Energy Projects Ruled Illegal by Federal Judge

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Less than a year after President Donald Trump banned new wind projects, a federal judge ruled the president’s executive order was illegal. US District Judge Patti Saris said Monday the order is “arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law,” siding …

10 12, 2025

Education Dept. Workers Targeted in Layoffs Return to Tackle Civil Rights Backlog

By | December 10th, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Education Dept. Workers Targeted in Layoffs Return to Tackle Civil Rights Backlog

The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Department of Education staffers who were slated to be laid off, saying their help is needed to tackle a mounting backlog of discrimination complaints from students and families. The staffers had been …

9 12, 2025

Jury Finds Agent Guilty of Twice Misappropriating Client’s Insurance Funds

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A Baltimore County jury has found Michael C. Okolo, of Parkville, Maryland, guilty of two counts of insurance fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. According to Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown Okolo was found to have twice …

10 12, 2025

California Again Delays Wildfire Protection Rules for Homes

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A California state agency won’t meet Gov. Gavin Newsom’s year-end deadline to finish long-delayed regulations to protect homes from wildfires, rules that experts say could have limited the destruction of the January Los Angeles firestorms. At a meeting of the …

10 12, 2025

Lawsuit Seeks Changes to Disney Parks’ Disability Policies

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Changes that Disney made to a popular program that lets qualifying disabled people skip long lines at its California and Florida theme parks are too restrictive, disabled fans contend in a federal lawsuit and shareholder proposal that seek to expand …

9 12, 2025

New York Workers’ Comp Board to Require Video for All Testifying in Virtual Hearings

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Beginning February 2, 2026, all claimants and lay witnesses testifying in virtual hearings before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board will be required to appear and testify by video with their faces fully visible on screen, and not just …

10 12, 2025

EU Strikes Deal on Climate Target to Cut Emissions by 90% by 2040

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The European Union agreed on Wednesday to set a legally binding climate target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90% from 1990 levels by 2040, and buy foreign carbon credits to cover 5% of the emissions cuts, goals that fell …

5 12, 2025

Apartment Building Fires Displace 70 Massachusetts Families; No Injuries Reported

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Both of the apartment building fires that displaced 70 families in Holyoke this week appear to be accidental but the exact causes remain under investigation, according to city and state fire officials. Holyoke Fire Chief John Kadlewicz and State Fire …

5 12, 2025

Cloudflare Says It Fixed Outage That Slowed Banking Sites, Zoom

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Cloudflare Inc. said it has fixed a problem that led to the websites for several banks, Shopify, Zoom and LinkedIn to go down Friday. “A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results,” the San Francisco-based company said …