Uber and Lyft drivers are not as excited about owners’ dreams of being millionaires. They want a living wage and they are going to show Uber and Lyft—and future shareholders—what disrespecting your workforce might cost. On Wednesday, May 8, from 7 AM to 9 PM, ride-hailing drivers are planning a strike. The action has been organized by the New York Taxi Workers Association and will include drivers in major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., San Diego, Philadelphia, and New York.
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz first declared that he was entertaining the idea of running for president, he was ubiquitous on the political scene, sitting for interviews with major outlets, appearing at buzzy conferences, and making various stops for a book tour across the country in which he’d persistently tease his White House ambitions.
But in the past two weeks, Schultz has largely disappeared, leaving the impression that the presidential campaign he was flirting with won’t actually come to fruition.
Robert Pear, a reporter whose understated demeanor belied a tenacious pursuit of sources and scoops during his 40 years at The New York Times covering health care and other critical national issues, died on Tuesday in Rockville, Md. He was 69.
The town of Tsagaannuur, located near the border between Mongolia and Russia, was recently sealed off following the deaths of a local couple who contracted the plague from eating the raw meat and organs of an infected marmot, Ariuntuya Ochirpurev with the World Health Organization in Ulaanbaatar, told The Washington Post. Some Mongolians believe eating the rodent’s uncooked innards to be “very good for health,” Ochirpurev said. The husband and wife reportedly ate the kidney, gall bladder and stomach of the creature, a type of large squirrel found in the region.
Trucks are guzzling ever more diesel, polluting towns and cities and fueling climate change. Germany thinks it may have found the answer by using overhead lines to power big rigs.
A system that allows trucks to draw electric power from overhead cables went into operation on 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of the autobahn on Tuesday, according to the German government.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Greg Dworkin parses the polling on impeaching the current president & electing the next one. Joan McCarter watches the Trumpsters roll out chained CPI, again. Trumpworld's Biden smear begins to unravel. As does Jacob Wohl’s latest stupid plot.