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By Emmett Lindner and Rebecca Lieberman Illustrations by Vincent Kilbride May 21, 2026 Since the war with Iran broke out, the average American household has spent an extra …$187.41 on gasoline.For many households, that is the equivalent of a month’s electricity bill.Or a week’s worth of groceries for a couple.The gasoline calculation is part of an analysis conducted by researchers at Brown University as they and others try to assess the economic costs of the prolonged fighting. Calculating the cost of war — a skipped meal or a drive not made — is an imperfect science. But these estimates can…
The US President promises his Warsaw colleague troops. Is the federal government supporting sanctions against Israel’s security minister? The Republicans in the Senate are no longer going along with everything. This is the situation on Friday morning.
The Catalan Government of Salvador Illa is holding an extraordinary meeting this Friday to approve the draft budget and send it immediately to the Parliament of Catalonia, where it already has sufficient support to be approved, after the agreements reached with ERC and Comuns. In addition, the Supreme Court is holding five hearings to study whether it paralyzes the regularization of immigrants in a precautionary manner, as requested by the Community of Madrid, Vox, Hazte Oír, the Association for Reconciliation and Historical Truth and the Freedom and Justice Association, while resolving their appeals against the Government’s royal decree. Continue reading
The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, called this Thursday for “intelligent collaboration” between the left to stop PP and Vox in the next elections. In front of a packed Ateneo theater in Madrid, where he participated in an event under the demand of “Stop the extreme right”, the minister explained that this collaboration does not have to imply that all the forces go “under the same acronym”, although he could be in favor of such a union. Puente has shared the stage with the president of Facua, Rubén Sánchez; the former vice president of the Government and former leader of…
Church institutions are allowed to reject applicants based on their denomination. However, only if there is a justified professional requirement for it. What exactly this can include is also made clear by a recent ruling by the Federal Labor Court (BAG). Here the Diakonie was allowed to reject the candidate Vera Egenberger because the advertised position contained externally representative tasks. The case had previously been processed by a wide variety of courts – including the European Court of Justice (ECJ) – for around 14 years. Canon law: The Egenberger case in detail On November 29, 2012, the plaintiff applied for…
Iran is said to have planned attacks on Josef Schuster and Volker Beck, the heads of the Central Council of Jews and the German-Israeli Society. Nagelsmann names the German World Cup squad. And Stephen Colbert presents his “Late Show” for the last time. This is the situation on Thursday evening.
The salary increase has become the main obstacle in the negotiations between educational unions and the Government to resolve the conflict with teachers in Catalonia. This Thursday, both parties sit down at the table again and the unions calling the strikes – Ustec, Aspepc, CGT and Intersindical – have prepared a joint proposal that they want to serve as a basis in these negotiations. In terms of wages, the unions demand a progressive increase until they reach around 500 euros more per month within four years. Continue reading
Israel has deployed a flotilla of Gaza activists, and images of Security Minister Ben-Gvir mocking prisoners are causing outrage. Lawyers denounce the violent actions and there is also talk of sexual harassment.
The PP of Andalusia has taken this week to digest the consequences of last Sunday’s election results and prepare to face a negotiation with Vox full of unknowns, despite the fact that they are starting from the clear path that the ultra have marked in the agreements of Extremadura and Aragón and that they have also imposed in Castilla y León, where they are in the final stretch of the negotiation. And although the acting president of the Board, Juan Manuel Moreno, has insisted throughout the campaign on the importance of not delaying to avoid the obstruction that has been…
When Tobias Voegele started as head of human resources at the insurer Signal Iduna in 2020, he found a department that was capable of everything – but not agile. The company had grown inorganically over many years, and with it the human resources department. The result: a unit that was organized along locations rather than functions. “I took over a classic administrative area at the time,” he remembers his beginnings. “For example, there were two different departments in Hamburg and Dortmund that had comparable tasks, but carried out many of them completely independently of each other.”For Vogele there was a…