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NEW YORK – The American labor movement will soon have something it’s never had before: a centralized strike fund.

The Union Now fund will be a centralized, national clearinghouse to get money directly into the hands of workers, Nelson told the Prospect.

“The labor movement hasn’t had a national strike fund,” Nelson said, and that lack of material support “is a fundamental issue, a fundamental roadblock to organizing.”. »

It sets up an expedited system for state-licensed medical marijuana producers and distributors to register with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

AP AUDIO: Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift In an historic shift, AP’s Lisa Dwyer reports that the Trump administration is reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana.

The Trump administration’s decision drew derision from marijuana legalization opponent Kevin Sabet, the chief executive of Smart Approaches to Marijuana. »

Shuhei Yoshida, the former long-tenured leader of Sony's first-party PlayStation Worldwide Studios, has said he was fired from the role by Jim Ryan - the boss of PlayStation - because he didn't listen to him.

"Jim Ryan wanted to remove me from first-party because I didn't listen to him.

As Yoshida later remarked, he and Ryan were part of the same PlayStation generation so they knew each other well. »

EU member states have reached agreement on unblocking an urgently needed €90bn (£78bn) loan for Kyiv and a new package of sanctions against Moscow after Ukraine resumed pumping Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, prompting Budapest to lift its veto.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine was fulfilling its obligations in its relations with the EU, including on the Druzhba pipeline, and it was now important that the European support package “becomes operational swiftly”.

Economists have said Ukraine could start to run low on money by June without the EU loan. »