Google fired 28 employees on Wednesday after a number of workers at the company participated in a sit-in protest against its cloud contract with the Israeli government‚ a day after nine staffers were suspended and then arrested for participating in the protest. The company announced the firings in an internal memo alleging the protesting workers “took over office spaces‚ defaced our property‚ and physically impeded the work of other Googlers.” The protests took place on Tuesday...

President Joe Biden will accept endorsements from at least 15 members of the Kennedy political family during a campaign stop Thursday in Philadelphia as he aims to undermine Donald Trump and marginalize the candidacy of independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kerry Kennedy‚ a daughter of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy‚ niece of former President John F. Kennedy and sister of the current presidential candidate‚ will deliver the endorsements of Biden‚ according to the Biden campaign....

Google fired 28 employees on Wednesday after sit-ins at the company's offices in protest of its cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. Why it matters: The protests stemmed from long-brewing discontent among a group of Google and Amazon workers over claims that Israel is using the companies' services to harm Palestinians. Context: The group of workers‚ called No Tech For Apartheid‚ organized sit-in demonstrations earlier this week at Google...

Republican leaders in the House are having an ongoing discussion about possibly changing the requirements for removing the speaker from power‚ a source confirmed to NewsNation on Thursday. The discussions involve making it so one person alone could no longer trigger a vote to oust a speaker. At this point‚ such a change is just being floated preliminarily‚ and no final decisions have been made yet‚ the source told NewsNation. The discussions come as House Speaker Mike Johnson’s position...

Existing home sales fell in March by the most in over a year as mortgage rates lurched upward amid higher inflation readings. Existing home sales in March fell 4.3% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.19 million‚ the National Association of Realtors reported on Thursday‚ as higher mortgage rates priced out many would-be buyers and led many homeowners to avoid selling and having to reenter the home loan market. The rate of...

Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale‚ California‚ to protest the company’s business ties with the Israel government‚ The Post has learned. The pro-Palestinian staffers — who wore traditional Arab headscarves as they stormed and occupied the office of a top executive in California on Tuesday — were terminated late Wednesday after an internal investigation‚ Google vice president of global...