Trump victory boosts book sales from “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “1984” to “Hillbilly Elegy”

Trump victory boosts book sales from “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “1984” to “Hillbilly Elegy”

11/7: CBS Morning News 20:45 “The Handmaid’s Tale” is selling again. Since President-elect Donald Trump clinched his return to the White House, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian classic about a country in which women are brutally repressed has been high on the Amazon.com best seller list. “The Handmaid’s Tale” was popular throughout Trump’s first term, along with…

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Red state voters backed a progressive pro-worker issue on Trump election night ballots and national momentum is building

Red state voters backed a progressive pro-worker issue on Trump election night ballots and national momentum is building

For some workers, the decision to stay home when sneezing and coughing will no longer mean forgoing a day’s pay.  In Tuesday’s election, ballot measures passed in three red states — Alaska, Missouri and Nebraska — that would require employers to provide earned paid sick leave for employees, with certain exceptions.  This follows a similar…

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Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania voters who sent defective mail-in ballots to cast provisional ones in person

Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania voters who sent defective mail-in ballots to cast provisional ones in person

The Supreme Court on Friday handed a loss to Republicans by allowing Pennsylvania voters who sent mail-in ballots that were flagged as being potentially defective to submit a separate provisional in-person ballot. The justices with no noted dissents rejected a Republican request to put on hold a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling from last week. Justice Samuel Alito, one of…

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