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In May 2019, she returned to bartending at the Queensboro Restaurant in Jackson Heights, Queens, to promote the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the minimum hourly wage for restaurant servers and other tipped workers from $2.13 to $15. Speaking to restaurant workers, customers and reporters, she criticized an exemption in U.S. minimum ...
In 2015, as a result of severe NATO–Russian tensions in Europe, Germany announced an increase in defence spending. In May 2015, the German government approved an increase in defence spending, at the time 1.3% of GDP, by 6.2% over the following five years, allowing the Ministry of Defense to modernise the army fully. [ 94 ]
While this list of forbidden resources is supposed to contain only known child pornography sites, the content of the list is secret. [179] Many countries, including the United States, have enacted laws against the possession or distribution of certain material, such as child pornography , via the Internet but do not mandate filter software.
QAnon flag featuring an American flag defaced with the Q logo alongside the slogan "Where we go one, we go all", at a Second Amendment rally in Richmond, 2020. QAnon [a] (/ ˈ k juː ə n ɒ n / CUE-ə-non) is a far-right American political conspiracy theory and political movement that originated in 2017.
By 4 July the continent recorded more than 251,000 new COVID cases, a 20% increase from the prior week and a 12% increase from the January peak. More than sixteen African countries, including Malawi and Senegal, recorded an uptick in new cases. [394] The WHO labelled it Africa's 'Worst Pandemic Week Ever'. [395]
Connecticut manufactured 4.1% of total U.S. military armaments produced during the war, ranking ninth among the 48 states, [91] with major factories including Colt [92] for firearms, Pratt & Whitney for aircraft engines, Chance Vought for fighter planes, Hamilton Standard for propellers, [93] and Electric Boat for submarines and PT boats. [94]
The name for Sweden is generally agreed to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(w)e, meaning "one's own", referring to one's own tribe from the tribal period. [15] [16] [17] The native Swedish name, Sverige (a compound of the words Svea and rike, first recorded in the cognate Swēorice in Beowulf), [18] translates as "realm of the Swedes", which excluded the Geats in Götaland.