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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 ■ Today's Top News  tRUMP NEVER PROTECTED WORKERS! "R" VOTERS are uninformed and want to pretend tRump stood up for them....tRump DID NOT! Biden Labor Department Finalizes Pro-Worker Rules on Overtime, Retirement Savings "Democrats are delivering for working people!" declared Rep. Pramila Jayapal as the AFL-CIO noted that GOP ex-President Donald Trump "gutted the rules that required overtime pay for millions of workers." By Julia Conley More Than 4 Dozen Unions Demand 'End of Repression' of Columbia Protests "The right to protest is necessary for every struggle, and the direct attack on this right is an attack on labor as well," said the labor groups. "An injury to one is an injury to all." By Julia Conley Plastics Summit 'Die-In' Highlights Need to Cut Production "This week governments have a choice: Stand up to this slash-and-burn approach by agreeing to radically reduce plastic output, or let the world be held to ransom by a dying industry." By Jessica Corbett South Korean Court Hears First Asian Youth Climate Case "Carbon emission reduction keeps getting pushed back as if it is homework that can be done later," said one plaintiff's mother. "But that burden will be what our children have to bear eventually." By Brett Wilkins UN Rights Chief Demands International Probe of Mass Graves Near Gaza Hospitals "Hospitals are entitled to very special protection under international humanitarian law," said Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights. By Jake Johnson 'Shameful': UK Conservatives Push Through Plan to Deport Asylum-Seekers to Rwanda "The U.K. government could literally pay every refugee a £30,000 annual salary for life, and it would be cheaper," said one critic. "We're burning money just to enjoy the cruelty." By Julia Conley

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