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Teamsters head warns his union not ‘beholden’ to Democrats in RNC speech

Union chief shouts out Trump, JD Vance and Josh Hawley as leaders of populist right

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Teamsters Union President Addresses Broken System At RNC

Sean O’Brien, Teamsters president, highlights challenges faced by American workers at the Republican National Convention.

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Biden meets with the Teamsters today. But don't expect an endorsement any time soon

The 1.3 million member union is in every battleground state. Former President Donald Trump has also met with the organization and made his pitch. But don't expect an endorsement any time soon.

WEKU

Alan Brownjohn obituary

Prolific poet, novelist and critic who was an astute and sometimes satirical observer of life in modern Britain

The Guardian - UK

Teamsters union pays $2.9m to settle racial discrimination lawsuit

Exclusive: union’s president, Sean O’Brien, accused of having ‘publicly humiliated’ Black and Hispanic workers

The Guardian - US

‘A slap in the face’: progressive anger as Teamsters union chief meets Trump

Leftwing members of 1.3m-strong labor union unhappy with Sean O’Brien for private meeting with Republican frontrunner

The Guardian - US

‘There won’t be any beer come March’: US Anheuser-Busch workers threaten strike

Represented by Teamsters, 5,000 workers at 12 breweries prepare to strike after voting 99% in favor

The Guardian - US

Liars, expulsions and near-fistfights: Congress plumbs the depths in 2023

From removing a House speaker and expelling an indicted member, it was not a great year for America’s representatives

The Guardian - US

Brawny billionaires, pumped-up politicians: why powerful men are challenging each other to fights

Musk and Zuck challenged each other to a fight; the former House speaker allegedly shoved a colleague. It was a bumper year for male insecurity

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A year in congressional chaos: The craziest moments from 2023

From falsely activated fire alarms to lunging lawmakers and criminal indictments, here are the moments that defined 2023 in Congress. Ariana Baio reports

The Independent UK

GOP lawmaker accused of picking colleagues’ noses on Israel trip

‘It was just middle school,’ former Congressman David Trott’s wife said

The Guardian - AU

Australian supermarket vanilla ice-cream taste test: the best tub is from Aldi (so is the worst)

From velvety specimens to ‘watery’ experiences, Nicholas Jordan has the inside scoop on ice-cream tubs – the good, the bad, and the simply vanilla

The Independent UK

Senator who threatened fight during hearing blames union boss: ‘He started it’

Markwayne Mullin, a former mixed martial arts fighter, said he ‘did not deal good with bullies’

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GOP senator boasts about almost getting in a fight with union leader

Near-brawl during Senate hearing was stopped by Bernie Sanders

Salon

Bernie, Ingraham torch "pathetic" Mullin

Markwayne Mullin in another interview reminisced about the days when you "used to be able to cane" in Congress

The Guardian - US

Offering to fight union leader was just ‘Oklahoma values’, senator claims

Republican Markwayne Mullin accused of ‘acting like a 12-year-old’ by Teamsters leader Sean O’Brien during Senate confrontation

Salon

GOP's institutional tantrum gets violent

It's hard to see how this ends well — for any of us

The Independent UK

Daily Show guest host reveals three GOP lawmakers she’d like to fight

Leslie Jones said she ‘wants in’ in the physical fights breaking out among GOP lawmakers in Congress

The Independent UK

Jimmy Kimmel renames Capitol live-stream ‘UFC-SPAN’ after GOP fights

Jimmy Kimmel joked the Republican party had turned into ‘UFC-SPAN all of a sudden’

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A GOP senator challenges Teamsters head to a fight in a fiery exchange at a hearing

A congressional hearing devolved into an angry confrontation between Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin and Sean O'Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

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