FTC bans noncompete agreements, making it easier for workers to quit. Here's what to know.
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CBS News ^
| 4/23/24 | Kate Gibson
Federal regulators on Tuesday enacted a nationwide ban on new noncompete agreements, which keep millions of Americans — from minimum-wage earners to CEOs — from changing jobs within their industries. The
Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday afternoon voted 3-to-2 approve the new rule, which will ban noncompetes for all workers when the regulations take effect in 120 days. For senior executives, existing noncompetes can remain in force. For all other employees, existing noncompetes are not enforceable. The FTC heard from thousands of people who said they had been harmed by noncompetes, illustrating how the agreements are "robbing people of their...
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Vaping May Help People Quit Smoking Cigarettes After All
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MEDPAGE TODAY ^
| April 4, 2024 | Elizabeth Short
— Study shows cigarette smoking discontinuation rates increased for e-cigarette users over timeA photo of an electronic cigarette in a cloud of vapor Combustible cigarette smokers are now more likely to quit if they start on e-cigarettes, a trend not seen a decade ago, according to longitudinal data from adults in the
Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study. Between 2016-2017 and 2018-2019, 20.1% of adult smokers who used electronic nicotine delivery systems discontinued cigarette smoking at follow-up compared with 16.5% of those who did not use e-cigarettes (P<0.05), reported Karin Kasza, PhD, of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center...
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REPORT: 24 women quit Aussie soccer league after trans athletes injure players, dominate league
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Breitbart.com ^
| 4/2/2024 | Warner Todd Huston
Two dozen young women have quit an Australian soccer league after officials allowed one team to add five transgender athletes, some of whom went on to injure girls on other teams. Parents
rose up in anger last month after the Flying Bats Football Club added the five male-born players to their girl’s soccer team and then went on a tear winning every single game for the pre-season Beryl Ackroyd Cup tournament in the Sydney, Australia-based league. “Flying Bats FC won every game they played over the course of the four-week competition, winning the grand final 4-0 at Macquarie Park on...
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Trump's potential VP pick Tulsi Gabbard, 42, and husband Abraham Williams, 35, buy $675,000 rustic single-story home in Texas - 18 months after Hawaiian native sensationally quit Democratic Party
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Dailymail ^
| April 01, 2024 | David Thompson
Political turncoat and Hawaii native Tulsi Gabbard – now on Donald Trump's shortlist for his VP running mate – could be making the red state of Texas a permanent home, DailyMail.com can reveal. The
former Congresswoman and one-time Democrat put down roots in the Lone Star State in mid March after she and husband Abraham Williams bought a rustic but charming single-story house in a suburb of Austin.
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EXCLUSIVE Taylor Swift-backed Vote.org in crisis as nearly half the staff is abruptly FIRED and others quit in protest after funding dries up amid claims new CEO spends more time promoting herself than getting voters to register
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Daily Mail ^
| 3/30/24 | Shawn Cohen
One of the nation's most prominent get-out-the-vote groups – which Taylor Swift endorsed – is experiencing a mass exodus of staff as it faces a fiscal and leadership crisis in the middle of a presidential election year, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Vote.org,
which began the year with up to 20 paid positions, has lost nearly half its staff since February, when the communications director quit while expressing frustration with management, insiders tell DailyMail.com. The chief operating officer resigned in early March and late last week five employees were let go including the vice president of development, director of partnerships, program...
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Lizzo Says 'I Quit' and I Can't Stop Laughing
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PJ Media ^
| 30 Mar 2024 | Rick Moran
Pop superstar Lizzo has had enough. She's
had enough of the "lies." She's tired of being "the butt of the joke every single time because of how I look." "I didn’t sign up for this s— — I QUIT [peace out emoji]," she posted on Instagram. The singer is the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit by three of her dancers who claim they had been “exposed to an overtly sexual atmosphere that permeated their workplace,” and that Lizzo created a "hostile work environment." She appeared at the Joe Biden mega-dollar fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday night,...
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Half of senior staffers in Congress are so fed up that they may quit
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The Washington Post ^
| March 30, 2024 | Paul Kane
When it comes to job satisfaction, members of Congress aren’t the only ones considering calling it quits. Only
about one in five senior aides on Capitol Hill believe that Congress is “functioning as a democratic legislature should,” and about the same margin believe that it is “an effective forum for debate” on key issues. Given those assessments by the people who live and breathe these issues, this particularly glum finding should not come as a surprise: Almost half of senior congressional aides are considering leaving the Hill because of “heated rhetoric from the other party.” These are just some of...
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Dutch darts players quit national women's team over transgender teammate
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ABC(Australia) ^
| 3/25/24 | Lara Smit
Darts players Anca Zijlstra and Aileen de Graaf have announced their departure from the Dutch women's darts team because they refuse to team up with trans woman Noa-Lynn van Leuven. Zijlstra announced she was quitting the team in a post on Facebook. "The moment you're embarrassed to be a part of the
Dutch Team, because a biological man is playing in the women's team, it's time to go," she wrote. "I have tried to accept this, but I can not condone or justify this." "I think that with sports there has to be an equal and level playing field which...
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I was a teen vaping addict — I finally quit after my lung collapsed twice
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NY Post ^
| 03/25/2024 | Tracy Swartz
A self-proclaimed “vaping addict” is calling for the devices to be banned after her right lung collapsed twice and she suffered permanent scars. “You
never think this type of thing will happen to you — but it happened to me. It felt like my lung was on fire,” Wisconsinite Karlee Ozkurt, 20, told SWNS. “I fell into the trap of thinking vaping was cool,” Ozkurt confessed. “But it’s stupid. I didn’t realize until it was too late.” Ozkurt’s plea follows a recent study that found that 11.3% of American high school students reported using e-cigarettes in the past 30 days...
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Arizona elections chief who quit in a ballot-counting dispute just got a top state job
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AZ Family ^
| 3.16.2024 | AP
The former elections director for a rural Arizona county who resigned last year because of a flap over the hand-counting of ballots has been elevated to a top electoral post for the state. Lisa
Marra left her job in southeastern Arizona’s largely Republican Cochise County last year after she refused to follow the directives of the area’s two GOP supervisors who wanted a hand count of ballots cast in the 2022 election. Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, in recent days appointed Marra as the state’s elections director. She had been a state assistant elections director since 2023....
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Op-ed: One possible reason many CEOs want remote workers back in the office is they want some to quit
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Fast Company ^
| October 19, 2023 | Matt Higgins
According to a survey from Resume Builder of over 1,000 decision-makers, 90% of companies plan to urge employees back to the office by the end of 2024. Almost
30% of these leaders say they will threaten to terminate employees who don’t oblige with the new return-to-office plans. These sentiments couldn’t be more at odds with the preferences of employees. In a Bankrate survey of 2,000 workers, roughly 68% of full-time employees prefer a hybrid work schedule. Ultimately, I believe the real reason leaders are trying to force workers to return to the office is not because they actually believe it...
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Gold bar Bob Menendez will not run for re-election to Senate in November — but still refuses to quit
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NY Post ^
| March 7, 2024 | By Isabel Vincent
Embattled New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez will not run for re-election in November, although he still refuses to hand in his resignation, The Post has learned. “He
will not be running,” said a source close to Menendez. The three-term federal senator, who resigned his powerful position as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee following the initial indictment last year, faces an 18-count indictment — and stiff competition from a group of Democratic primary challengers.
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Yes, Covid came from a lab. When will the mainstream media quit gaslighting us?
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Life Site News ^
| 3/1/24 | Steve Mosher
The Wall Street Journal just breathlessly reported that the Covid virus was manufactured in a lab. It
even hinted that the lab in question might have been — drumroll, please — the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Of course, this is not news to anyone but those who still read the mainstream media. Those benighted souls have been kept in the dark about the origins of the recent pandemic for four long years. LifeSitNews readers, on the other hand, have known the truth from the beginning. Why? Because right after the outbreak of Covid in China — when Anthony Fauci was...
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Putin’s vision for Russia’s next 6 years: Keep fighting, quit drinking, have babies
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Politico ^
| FEBRUARY 29, 2024 | BY EVA HARTOG AND DENIS LEVEN
The Kremlin promised entertainment.Western analysts feared Vladimir Putin would declare another war.But the Russian president’s more than two-hour-long address on Thursday delivered on neither expectation, though Putin presented Russians with a vision of the future that alternated between nuclear saber-rattling and grand social promises. ###Putin,
who cut a relaxed figure, also called for the safeguarding of “traditional family values.”“We see what is happening in some countries where moral norms and family institutions are deliberately being destroyed, pushing entire peoples to extinction and degeneration,” he said. “We choose life.”
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‘I refuse to quit’: Nikki Haley vows to stay in the presidential race after South Carolina
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NBC News ^
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley made clear in a Tuesday address on the state of the GOP presidential primary that she's not going to drop out soon even as she significantly trails former President Donald Trump."Some of you — perhaps a few of you in the media — came here today
to see if I’m dropping out of the race," she said. "Well, I’m not. Far from it."Haley said "we all know where" calls for her to drop out are coming from, pointing to "the political elite, the party bosses," and "cheerleaders in the commentator world."
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I Quit Participants Can Be Prosecuted If Caught Vaping [Smoking Cessation Program]
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AsiaOne ^
| FEBRUARY 16, 2024 | David Su
Participants in the I Quit programme, designed to help them quit smoking, need not worry about being fined or prosecuted as it does not presume they have or use vaping products. But
if they are caught using or possessing such products, then they will not be immune from criminal prosecution. Senior Minister of State for Health Janil Puthucheary said this on Feb 16 in Parliament when responding to a question from Associate Professor Jamus Lim (Sengkang GRC). Prof Lim had asked whether participants in I Quit, the smoking cessation programme by the Health Promotion Board, were offered immunity from prosecution....
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Mitch Landrieu: Biden ‘Is Never, Ever Going to Quit’
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Breitbart ^
| 02/11/2023 | Pam Key
Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that questions about President Joe Biden’s mental fitness would not cause him to “quit” the presidential race. Anchor
Kristen Welker said, “Our NBC news poll found that 76% of voters are concerned about whether the president has the necessary mental and physical health to be president for a second term. What is the plan to convince voters otherwise?”
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Neurologist explains why he quit powerlifting after learning of its life-wrecking effects
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Daily Mail ^
| 2 February 2024 | Caitlyn Tilley
A neurologist has explained why he regrets powerlifting after he learned about the potential life-wrecking effects. Dr
Sergej Stjepic, a neurologist in Chicago, Illinois, revealed on TikTok three things he would never do, knowing what he knows now about health. 'I wouldn't have powerlifted so much,' he said. 'For example, squatting very heavy weights.' Powerlifting describes using a barbell while squatting, bench pressing or deadlifting. It involves lifting a certain amount of weight in one go, rather than repeated exercises. But it is harmful because it can 'decrease your overall disc height in your spine,' he said. When height in...
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REPORT: Barack Obama Is Telling Joe Biden to Quit the 2024 Race
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PJ Media ^
| | 3:15 PM ON JANUARY 24, 2024 | MATT MARGOLIS
Earlier this month, we learned that Barack Obama advised Joe Biden on how to beef up his reelection campaign. Now,
he appears to have given up all hope for Biden's struggling campaign. The former president and other allies of Biden's have advised him "to quit the 2024 race to save America and the Democratic Party," according to a report from RadarOnline. "Insiders snitched that tensions between the two presidents recently exploded after irate Obama rushed to a secret meeting and confronted Biden about his fading chances to fend off surging Republican candidate Donald Trump in the upcoming November election," explains...
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Sarah Longwell Wants to Help Republicans Quit Donald Trump
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Time ^
| 1/18/24 | Charlotte Alter
Sarah Longwell is one of the most powerful anti-Trump Republican strategists in the country. As
a lifelong conservative, she’s seen firsthand how the GOP has transformed over the last 20 years. Longwell is the publisher of The Bulwark, an anti-Trump conservative news and opinion website. She was also the first female national board chair of the Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP group representing LGBTQ conservatives. And she helped launch America’s foremost coalition of anti-Trump Republicans, called Defending Democracy Together. That’s the group behind initiatives like Republican Voters Against Trump and Republicans for the Rule of Law. Last week, we heard...
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