Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A California judge on Monday granted the state’s request for a preliminary injunction blocking Uber and Lyft from classifying their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. Uber and Lyft had been accused of violating Assembly Bill 5, a new state law requiring companies to classify workers as employees […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A supposed new dinosaur species, named Vectaerovenator inopinatus, discovered by the University of Southampton seems to belong to the same group as the Tyrannosaurus rex. Four bones recovered last year from an isle off England known as the Isle of Wight, were found on three separate occasions and delivered […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it would no longer provide data when it was requested from Hong Kong authorities. This move follows the enforcement of China’s new national security law in Hong Kong. This now means Google will effectively treat Hong Kong the same as mainland China in such dealings. […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A fire broke out in Lake Hughes, located near Los Angeles, on Wednesday. The California Fire Department is still working on containing the blaze, some of which have ignited areas that have not caught fire since 1968. There is currently no known cause of the now-dubbed Lake Fire. California […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Justice Department has found Yale to be in violation of United States Civil Rights law, saying that the university discriminates against Asian and Caucasian applicants in their admission process. The DOJ says Yale’s receiving of taxpayer funding is conditioned on the college agreeing to Title VI of the […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalize diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship, a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to the fight against Iran. The UAE is the first Gulf Arab country to […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] According to the Government Accountability Office, the current leaders of the Department of Homeland Security were not validly appointed to their positions. The GAO reports that these leaders are violating the Homeland Security Act, which details successions within the Department outside of the existing Federal Vacancies Reform Act. The […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] In a statement, Apple announced that it had removed the popular video game “Fortnite” for supposedly violating Apple’s payment features. According to Apple, “Fortnite” creator Epic Games, who has had their apps on Apple for over 10 years, “enabled a feature in its app which was not reviewed or […]
