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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Labor Secretary Steps Down, Blames Deep State

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The Best of the Week’s News

  • Trump’s labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, steps down amid allegations that she, her husband, and her father were inappropriate with staffers, blames the deep state. (NYT, MS Now)

  • Sidney-winner Anat Rubin on CA sheriff and gubernatorial hopeful Chad Bianco’s seizure of the ballots from the recent redistricting vote based on bogus charges of voter fraud. (Hill, CalMatters) 
     

  • Trump-appointed NLRB general counsel stopped a trial that was likely to find Amazon guilty. (Prospect)
     

  • New gas-powered AI data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than some countries. (Wired)
     

  • Thousands of Samsung workers strike in South Korea. (AP)