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US Supreme Court Takes Up Case from IL on Fair Share Fees
He said Janus , for instance, disagrees with the notion that taxpayers in a state with severe fiscal problems should be forced to cough up more money to public employees. The case stems from a fight between Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and public-sector unions over his 2015 executive order to stop the fees.
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Catalan separatists occupy polling stations ahead of disputed vote
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government has said any vote on Catalan secession would have to be held across all of Spain , not just in Catalonia . As police methodically sealed off hundreds of schools, some parents chose to send their children home and girded for pre-dawn confrontations Sunday with police.
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UAE: Government to build Mars prototype city
The Mars Science City is just one of many designs readying mankind for its first missions missions to the Red Planet. Once completed, the Mars Science city will be the largest simulated off-world environment ever constructed and will feature laboratories for food, energy and water research and development projects as well as extraterrestrial agricultural testing.
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Railways official says stampede toll rises to 22
The police officials and medical teams have rushed to the spot. Police said the stampede at the Elphinstone railway station was triggered by a rumor that a pedestrian overpass collapsed after concrete chunks fell. Railway minister Piyush Goyal , who incidentally landed in Mumbai yesterday, was not spared either. Many people, to save themselves, had to hang precariously on the outside of the bridge to avoid being caught in the stampede.
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Russian Federation to destroy last chemical weapons on Wednesday, ahead of schedule
The head of the worldwide chemical weapons watchdog hailed Russia's destruction of its last toxic arms as a "major milestone". Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that his country had planned to complete the work by 2020 in line with its Chemical Weapons Convention obligations.
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Mom flew to Germany, left 4 kids home alone in Iowa
She had wanted to fly home on Sunday. Local police were called to Macke's home on September 21 to perform a welfare check to discover she had gone and was not planning to return until October 1. "We think leaving your kids at home at any age is a risk, from young children up to teenagers". Officer Tyler says the kids were anxious about being left alone, "They were concerned, they didn't know, they were confused, I mean we're only talking about 12-year-olds being the adults here".