Salt Bae Nusr-Et steakhouse chain sued for unpaid additional time pay

Turkish restaurateur Nusret Gokce aka Salt Bae arrives for the screening of the film “The Traitor (Il Traditore)” at the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 23, 2019. Loic Venance | AFP | Getty Images Christy Reuter, a lawyer for Gokce, had no immediate comment but said she …

On the identical day, Greg Abbott pronounces he has COVID, Texas has requested 5 hearse trailers from FEMA

Texas is the county’s largest red state. Because of this, many of its residents have refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Governor Greg Abbott certainly didn’t help. Like Ron DeSantis, his Florida counterpart, Abbott is more focused on making the virus a culture war issue than actually doing anything about it. And the falls are …

Flights from Kabul Airport resume amid the scramble to depart Afghanistan

French and Afghan nationals face off on the 17th (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo by STR / AFP via Getty Images) STR | AFP | Getty Images Flights from Kabul International Airport resumed Tuesday after a hectic and panicked Monday with thousands of Afghans swarming the tarmac to leave Afghanistan. Pictures from Hamid Karzai …

Some Trump Resorts Are Now Requiring Masks on Their Properties, Even in Pink States

Donald Trump always had a major problem with the use of masks to combat COVID-19. He thought is was a major insult to say that Joe Biden was wearing the “biggest mask I’ve ever seen.” And during his return to the White House from the hospital after suffering from COVID, he made a point of …

Chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as Afghans flee the Taliban

Thousands of Afghans gathered on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport in the hours after the Taliban captured the capital. The chaotic scenes on Monday at Hamid Karzai International Airport, recorded by news crews and cell phones, convey a terror and desperate escape from the country now overrun by Taliban fighters in the run-up to …

No. three Republican Steve Scalise Says “Shaming” Will not Make Republicans Get Vaccinated

At this moment, the delta variant of COVID-19 is devastating areas in the South East portion of the United States. Not surprisingly, many of these states are led by Republicans. But while those Republican voters want Donald Trump to get credit for the vaccine, they aren’t interested in taking it. Steve Scalise, the number 2 …

Federal choose denies landlords’ request to dam CDC nationwide eviction ban

New York City housing advocates and tenants march to demand Gov. Andrew Cuomo cancel rent amid the pandemic on Oct. 10, 2020. Andrew Lichtenstein | Corbis News | Getty Images A federal judge rejected on Friday a request by landlord groups to block the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new eviction moratorium. The decision …

Republican crime hit a brand new low when a teen was arrested for serving to intercourse trafficker GOP strategist

A teenage girl who chaired her university’s College Republicans was arrested for helping a Republican strategist in sex trafficking in young girls. The Daily Beast reported: Florida law enforcement officers arrested Gisela Castro Medina, a 19-year-old who is accused of helping a wealthy, young Republican strategist in Minnesota capture girls and recruit them for paid …

Rand Paul’s spouse purchased shares in Covid therapy maker Gilead as virus unfold

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Rand Paul and his wife had not bought or sold stock in an individual company in at least 10 years when Kelley Paul purchased shares of the drug company Gilead Sciences in early 2020. The purchase came early in the novel coronavirus’ initial wave through the United States — and one …

Homeland Safety Warns That Trump/Republican Election Lies Promote Violence

The Department of Homeland Security issued a new bulletin that contained a warning that election fraud lies like those promoted by Trump and the GOP promote violence. The Department of Homeland Security warned: Foreign and domestic threat actors, to include foreign intelligence services, international terrorist groups and domestic violent extremists, continue to introduce, amplify, and …