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EMBED >More News Videos Texas Sen. Ted Cruz addressed calls for his resignation after the state's Democratic Party said his leading role in efforts to block the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's electoral victory empowered the pro-Donald Trump rioters.

She said it is no exaggeration that she and others were prepared for the possibility of dying during the siege.

"I want to be clear that this doesn't start or end at Capitol police but we need to know what happened with the National Guard. »

Some Amazon employees had called on the company to be the next tech giant to cut off the controversial social media platform Parler.

The group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice posted a tweet overnight demanding that “Amazon deny Parler services until it removes posts inciting violence, including at the Presidential inauguration.”.

Amazon Web Services' acceptable-use policy bars customers from using its services for “illegal, harmful or offensive” content. »

Gig economy companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash rely on a model that resembles anti-labor practices employed decades before by the U.S. construction industry, and could lead to similar erosion in earnings for workers, a researcher found.

The article, titled “Misclassification in Construction: The Original Gig Economy,” was first published on Nov. 26 in the ILR Review. »

147 Republicans in Congress voted to try to keep President Donald Trump in power based on what many knew were lies about the election.

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress are demanding “unity” after 147 of them voted to try to overturn the election, propping up the very lies that led a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters to violently attack the US Capitol on Wednesday.

The 147 Republicans voted separately to undermine the will of voters in Arizona and Pennsylvania; the vast majority of them voted for both. »