Backed by the grassroots labor group that secured the first-ever union victory of an Amazon warehouse in the U.S., workers of another warehouse filed a petition on Tuesday for an election in upstate New York in the hopes of a similar outcome. Read More...
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Exclusive-Inside the Alex Jones jury room: tensions, pizza and ‘lizard people’
As the jury in the Alex Jones defamation trial gathered in a conference room in a Texas courthouse on Aug. 5 to decide how much the U.S. conspiracy theorist owed to two parents of a murdered Sandy Hook first-grader, sums at first ranged from $500,000 to $200 million, a juror told Reuters. “We saw those numbers on the board and someone said, ‘Well, I guess we’re never leaving this room,'” said Sharon, a juror who asked that her last name be withheld because she fears harassment by Jones’ followers. Sharon, the first juror to speak publicly about the case, wrote her preferred number on a strip of paper and passed it to the front.
