National News

By Brenna Powers             CHATTANOOGA (mocsnews.com) – According to a survey by Starbucks union members and supporters, Starbucks is cutting employee hours across the board, with two to 15 hours being cut from their weekly schedules.             There are many concerns as to why Starbucks would randomly cut employee hours, …

By Bailey Tate CHATTANOOGA, TENN (mocsnsews.com)- Philanthropic grants are changing the game when it comes to journalists covering climate issues. More than two dozen journalists from across the world have been hired to focus on how climate change impacts agriculture, migration, urban planning, the economy, culture and other areas around …

By Thea Marshall CHATTANOOGA, TN (mocsnews.com)- Joe Rogan put Spotify in a tough situation after Anti-coronavirus vaccine comments and racial slurs in his podcast. Now the streaming service has to make difficult decisions. Spotify must now decide where they stand on these issues because of heightened sensitivity regarding both issues. …

By MICHAEL WARREN Associated PressATLANTA (AP) — There’s a problem with putting someone on a pedestal: Exposed on all sides, a hero to some can be seen as a traitor to others.Atlanta plans to install a statue of a Native American man atop a 110-foot (34-meter) column in its new …

By MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., apologized Tuesday for suggesting things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house …

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden responded to a question about inflation by calling a Fox News reporter a vulgarity. The president was in the East Room of the White House on Monday for a meeting of his Competition Council, which is focused on changing …

CHATTANOOGA, TN (mocsnews.com)- If you haven’t known by now COVID-19 is a part of each one of our lives. COVID-19, has affected each of us emotionally and physically. Coronavirus has played a part in our daily lives, stopping us from doing normal things such as working at our jobs, kids …

Chattanooga, Tenn. (mocsnews.com) — Recently Gabby Petito, the once missing “van life” blogger, was coined as “America’s Daughter”, which has brought awareness to how frequent women face Domestic Abuse in intimate relationships.  Petito disappeared while on a cross-country van trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie and was reported missing on …

By Grace James             CHATTANOOGA, TN (mocsnews.com)—With the recent speculations in the Gabby Petito case, discussions on domestic violence among college-aged students are at an all-time high.             Prior to the 22-year-old’s death, domestic violence experts said Petito showed behavior of a victim in the Utah bodycam video taken on …

By JONATHAN MATTISE and MARK HUMPHREY Associated Press COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A gunman attacked a grocery store in an upscale Tennessee suburb on Thursday afternoon, killing one person and wounding 12 others before he was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the store, authorities said. Collierville …