Oakland Officer Fatally Shot on Duty

TL/DR - Oakland police officer Tuan Le was fatally shot while intercepting a burglary at a cannabis dispensary. He was a four-year veteran of the force, originally from Saigon, Vietnam, and had been serving as the Community Resource Officer in West Oakland. Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the burglary, but it is not confirmed…

Five Non-Events of 2023

TL/DR - In a retrospective of 2023, Atlantic Council experts discuss five significant events that didn't occur: a U.S. recession, Russia using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, China invading Taiwan, Russia stopping Ukraine from exporting grain, and the U.S. and EU entering a trade war. The article suggests that these non-events had real-world…

NLRB Rules Health Care Firm’s Pay Freeze Illegal

TL/DR - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that a health-care company broke federal labor law by unilaterally stopping nurses’ shift differential pay after agreeing to a collective bargaining agreement with the nurses’ union. The company, Twinbrook OpCo LLC, argued that continuing the shift differential pay would have constituted…