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☆ Massachusetts pizza shop owner is sentenced to 8.5 years for forced labor and threats of deportation
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Hanna Park | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The owner of two Boston-area pizza shops has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for subjecting employees to years of violence and intimidation, according to prosecutors. In June, he was convicted on three counts of forced labor and three counts of attempted forced labor. Authorities discovered that Papantoniadis operated his pizza shops with a skeletal staff, forced workers to perform grueling shifts of 14 hours or more, often seven days a week. Papantoniadis violently choked a worker who expressed his intention to quit, causing the victim to flee in fear, investigators found. “Today’s significant sentence sends a message to employers — employees deserve to work in safety, free from harassment and abuse.”

Persons: Stavros Papantoniadis, Papantoniadis, ”, Joshua Levy, ” Papantoniadis, Levy, Papantoniadis “, ” Michael J, “ Organizations: CNN, US, Office, District of Massachusetts, Labor, Authorities, Homeland Security Investigations Locations: Boston, Norwood , Massachusetts

More than half of the nearly 580,000 eligible Latino voters in Pennsylvania are of Puerto Rican descent. Sapunar described Saturday's canvassing event as a "show of solidarity between the immigrant and the Puerto Rican community." The majority of Pennsylvania’s Latino eligible voters are of Puerto Rican descent. In a UnidosUS survey, Pennsylvania Latino voters' top policy issues included jobs and the economy, the rising cost of living, immigration and abortion. Pennsylvania voters had primarily favored Democrats in six presidential elections leading up to 2016, when Republicans won, turning Pennsylvania into a battleground state.

Persons: canvassers, there’s, ” Michael Jones, Correa, Tim Waltz, Hurricane Maria, Liza Colón, Zayas, Tina, Donald Trump, “, ”, Tim Walz, Kamala Harris, Hamilton, Anthony Ramos, Luis Gutiérrez of, Flor Sapunar, Sapunar, Jones, Harris, Puerto Ricans, Joe Biden Organizations: Puerto Rican, University of Pennsylvania, NBC News, Puerto, Latino, Politics Institute, UCLA, Democratic, Latina, Saturday, Gov, YouTube, CASA, Rep, NBC, The, AA, Puerto Ricans, Trump, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Pennsylvania, Republicans Locations: Bethlehem, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rican, Hurricane, Puerto Rico, Luis Gutiérrez of Illinois, Puerto Rican . Lancaster, Johnstown, Puerto, U.S

☆ Sha’Carri Richardson, chasing an Olympic legacy, has already made one back home
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Marcus Thompson Ii | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

On this same track, at this same school, in this same heat, Sha’Carri Richardson put in the same work. “And it’s Sha’Carri Richardson. Students practice at Carter High’s John E. Kincaide Stadium in Dallas, Texas, where Sha’Carri Richardson once plied her trade. They all know the name Sha’Carri Richardson. It’s community.”GO DEEPER Sha'Carri Richardson, with emphatic win at trials, closing in on Olympic glory(Top illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; photo: Hannah Peters / Getty Images)

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☆ RV sales are picking up. That’s a good sign for the economy
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

When consumer sentiment falters or the economy starts to teeter, RV sales follow suit, said Michael Hicks, an economics professor at Ball State University and director of Indiana University’s Center for Business and Economic Research. “People don’t make these large, luxury purchases unless they’re actually feeling better about the economy,” said Hicks, who follows the RV industry closely. “It’s so sensitive to interest rate changes, which often precede a downturn.”A Winnebago travel trailer at Motor Sportsland RV dealership in Salt Lake City on April 6, 2020. Nika Shneyder and her father and business partner, Alex Shneyder, standing by a Chill RV in Malibu RV Park, California, in 2019. They moved down to a historically strong, but noticeably smaller, 493,000 the next year, according to data from the RV Industry Association.

Persons: That’s, Nika Shneyder, “ We’re, ” Shneyder, “, Michael Hicks, ”, Hicks, George Frey, bode, ” Michael J, Happe, hasn’t, We’ve, we’ve, Covid, Alex Shneyder, Nika, they’d, Monika Geraci, David Titus, Ty Wright, there’s, Ball State’s Hicks, ’ Titus, they’re, we’ll, Titus, ” Titus Organizations: CNN, Ball State University, Indiana University’s Center for Business, Economic Research, Bloomberg, Getty, Winnebago Industries, RV Industry, Dealers, RVs, Consumers, HL Enterprise, Manufacturing, of Labor Statistics Locations: Los Angeles, teeter, Salt Lake City, YOLO, Malibu, , California, Elkhart , Indiana, The Northern Indiana, South Bend, Elkhart, “, Elkhart .

☆ How Haley, DeSantis and Other Republicans Could Beat Trump - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Kristen Soltis Anderson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

If only the field were smaller, the thinking went, surely Mr. Trump would be defeated. This line of thinking became an excuse for candidates who didn’t want to take any real swings at Mr. Trump. It was the field — not Mr. Trump — that was the problem. And even as Mr. Trump’s opponents dropped out, some of their voters wound up drifting to Mr. Trump as a second choice, keeping him at the head of the pack. While there is some truth that having more candidates helps Mr. Trump win the nomination, consolidating the field alone is not likely sufficient to defeat him.

Persons: ” Michael J, Marty McFly, Donald Trump, Trump, Ted Cruz of, Marco Rubio, Trump’s Organizations: Republican Party Locations: Ted Cruz of Texas, Marco Rubio of Florida, Michigan

With his prime-time vow to send more weapons to both Ukraine and Israel, President Biden sought to make clear on Thursday that the United States was not prioritizing one war over the other. But hours earlier, a Defense Department official said that tens of thousands of 155-millimeter artillery shells promised to Ukraine would be diverted to Israel. Here are three key weapons systems that Israel and Ukraine may need from the United States. Artillery ammunitionPerhaps more than any other weapons, the NATO-standard 155-millimeter shells will be in high demand, as both Israel and Ukraine use them against targets within a few dozen miles. In January, the Pentagon said it would tap into an American stockpile in Israel and ship hundreds of thousands of 155-millimeter shells to Ukraine.

Persons: Biden, “ You’re, ” Sabrina Singh, “, ” Michael J, Morell, Mark F, Rob Bauer, Charlie Dietz, ” Organizations: Defense Department, Pentagon, U.S, Central Intelligence Agency, White, Center for Strategic, International Studies, United States, Artillery, NATO, United, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Locations: Ukraine, Israel, United States, Gaza, Russia, Washington, United, Europe, North, Netherlands

As they do every summer, publicly traded companies posted their second-quarter results while Americans were baring their bodies on the beach. But this year, the timing was apt. On several earnings calls in August, chief executives reassured investors that the Ozempic revolution had not left them in the dust, and that they could somehow share in the blazing success of new diabetes and weight loss drugs. “We will continue to study this,” Michael Johnson, the chief executive of the nutritional supplement maker Herbalife, told investors. “And when we see an opportunity to capitalize on it, we will.”In theory, that opportunity — both for making profits and for losing fortunes — could be vast not only for the companies behind these drugs but also for some in completely different industries.

Persons: baring, ”, Dan R, “, ” Michael Johnson, — Locations: Chard

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