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International Brotherhood of Teamsters president Sean O'Brien is in hot water with his own members after giving a speech at the Republican National Convention this week. And it could now cost him his position.

According to In These Times labor reporter Kim Kelly, O'Brien is drawing a challenger in John Palmer, the union's VP-at-large, who tore O'Brien to shreds in an announcement of his candidacy for the union's leadership election in 2026, urging members to vote for him to "send Sean O'Brien back to the truck."

The Teamsters is one of America's largest umbrella union organizations, representing 1.3 million workers, or about 10 percent of the entire unionized labor force....

The Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry, continued this weekend to play coy about whether he will throw his ten-gallon hat in the ring for the GOP nomination for the presidency.

WASHINGTON — Ex-US ambassador to China Jon Huntsman said on Sunday he is close to throwing his hat in the ring for the Republican presidential nomination, distancing himself from former boss Barack Obama.

MOSCOW (AFP) – A Russian court on Monday began hearing the case of a former top secret service agent accused of treason and defecting after he blew the cover on a sleeper spy ring in the United States last year.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's domestic intelligence agency said on Tuesday that it had established the guilt of a man local media have identified as the spymaster who betrayed a ring of agents operating in the United States last year.

PARIS — The longer a man's fourth or ring finger is compared to his index finger, the more likely he is to be judged attractive by women, according to a study released Wednesday.