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Amazon Labor Union workers vote overwhelmingly in favor of affiliation with Teamsters
Workers who are part of the Amazon Labor Union are aligning themselves with the Teamsters, overwhelmingly voting in favor of an affiliation. The ALU members voted 98.3% in favor of the affiliation, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said Tuesday. The affiliation gives the union workers access to various resources as...
When violence and trauma visit American places, a complex question follows: Demolish, or press on?
PITTSBURGH — Last week in Parkland, Florida, wrecking equipment began demolishing the building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where a gunman’s rampage in 2018 ended with 17 people dead. As the rumble of destruction echoed, people in the community set to explaining exactly why ripping the building down was...
Half a million immigrants could eventually get U.S. citizenship under new plan from Biden
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is taking an expansive, election-year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S. — aiming to balance his own aggressive crackdown on the border earlier this month that enraged advocates and many Democratic lawmakers. The White...
More than 75 million people in the country are under heat alerts. Go indoors and hydrateVideo
PHOENIX — Over 75 million people in the United States were under extreme heat alerts Monday as a heat wave moved eastward, and the mid-Atlantic and New England were likely to see highs in the 90s as the week progresses. Excessive humidity will make it feel even more oppressive. The...
Biden will announce deportation protection and work permits for spouses of U.S. citizens
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is planning to announce a sweeping new policy Tuesday that would lift the threat of deportation for hundreds of thousands of people married to U.S. citizens, an aggressive election-year action on immigration that had been sought by many Democrats. Biden will announce the new program...
Secret Service agent robbed at gunpoint during Biden’s Los Angeles trip, police say
LOS ANGELES — A U.S. Secret Service agent was robbed at gunpoint as President Joe Biden was visiting Los Angeles for a fundraising event over the weekend, officials said. The agent was returning from work Saturday night when he was accosted in a residential community in Tustin, about an hour’s...
Nashville court grapples with details on school shooter that were leaked to media
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Attorneys fighting over the release of documents involving a 2023 Nashville elementary school shooting pleaded with a judge Monday to finally issue a ruling settling the matter, their request taking on a more desperate tone amid the recent publication of leaked records about the shooter. It was...
Authorities across U.S. grapple with rash of violence in final days of spring
Communities across the country are grappling with a rash of violence in the final days of spring that included at least four mass shootings in one weekend, and continued Monday with stabbings outside an Indiana strip mall. On Saturday, a lone gunman opened fire at a recreational splash pad in...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signs order for over 175K pardons for marijuana convictions
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore ordered more than 175,000 pardons for marijuana convictions on Monday, saying the “most sweeping state-level pardon in any state” will help reverse harms from the past caused by the war on drugs. During a news conference, Moore said the executive order will affect...
Biden’s Title IX law expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students is dealt another setback
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Biden administration’s effort to expand protections for LGBTQ+ students hit another roadblock Monday, when a federal judge in Kentucky temporarily blocked the new Title IX rule in six additional states. U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves referred to the regulation as “arbitrary in the truest sense...
Tobacco-like warning label for social media sought by surgeon general who asks Congress to act
The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms and their effects on young people’s lives, similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday opinion piece in the The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is...
The trial of a U.S. reporter charged with espionage in Russia is to begin June 26
MOSCOW — The espionage trial in Russia of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will begin on June 26 and will be held behind closed doors, a statement from the court that will hear the case said Monday. Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, has been behind bars since his March 2023...
Severe weather forecast around U.S. with high Southwest temperatures, Gulf rain and Rockies snow
PHOENIX — Heat and cold extremes are expected this week in the U.S. Officials warned Southwest residents to take precautions as a heat wave moves east, while heavy rains and flooding could drench the Gulf states and snow threatens parts of the Rockies and Northwest. Extreme heat spread across Arizona,...
The war in Gaza has wiped out entire Palestinian families. AP documents 60 who lost dozens or more
BEIRUT — He is among the very last survivors of his Gaza family, a clan so close they knew without thinking how blood and marriage bound them across generations and city blocks. Then, branch by branch, 173 of Youssef Salem’s relatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes in a matter of...
Israeli officials say Netanyahu has dissolved the War Cabinet after key partner bolted government
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the influential War Cabinet tasked with steering the war in Gaza, Israeli officials said Monday, a move that comes days after a key member of the body bolted the government over frustrations surrounding the Israeli leader’s handling of the war....
American tourist found dead on small Greek island west of Corfu. 3 other tourists are missing
ATHENS, Greece — A missing American tourist has been found dead on a beach on a small Greek island west of Corfu, local media reported. The body of the man was found Sunday on a rocky, fairly remote beach on the island of Mathraki by another tourist. He had been...
Police identify Michigan splash pad shooter but there’s still no word on a motiveVideo
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. — Authorities on Sunday identified the man who opened fire at a splash pad in suburban Detroit before taking his own life, but his motives remained unknown as investigators worked to determine if he left behind any hint of his plans. Oakland County Sheriff’s spokesperson Stephen Huber...
The anti-abortion movement is making a big play to thwart citizen initiatives on reproductive rights
CHICAGO — Reeling from a string of defeats, anti-abortion groups and their Republican allies in state governments are using an array of strategies to counter proposed ballot initiatives intended to protect reproductive rights or prevent voters from having a say in the fall elections. The tactics include attempts to get...
4 Florida officers indicted for 2019 shootout with robbers that killed a UPS driver and passerby
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Four Florida police officers have been indicted for manslaughter in connection with a 2019 shootout on a busy rush-hour street that left a hijacked UPS driver and a passerby in a nearby car dead. A grand jury indicted Miami-Dade County officer Rodolfo Mirabal, 39, with two...
80 countries at Swiss conference agree territorial integrity of Ukraine must be basis of any peace
OBBÜRGEN, Switzerland — Eighty countries jointly called Sunday for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine to be the basis for any peace agreement to end Russia’s two-year war, though some key developing nations at a Swiss conference did not join in. The joint communique capped a two-day conference at the Bürgenstock...
Maine police kill armed man after a night of gunfire, burned homes
AUBURN, Maine — A Maine State Police tactical team fatally shot a man on a rooftop early Saturday after an hourslong standoff in which authorities said he opened fire at officers, two homes burned down, and a person who fought with him apparently died. Police issued a shelter-in-place order, evacuated...
Shooting at splash pad in Detroit suburb injures 8, including 2 children
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. — Eight people were injured after a shooter opened fire at a splash pad in a Detroit suburb where families gathered to escape the summer heat Saturday, authorities said. Law enforcement tracked a suspect to a home, where the person died by suicide. At least two of...
U.K. royals unite on palace balcony, with Kate back at her 1st public event since cancer diagnosis
LONDON — Britain put on a display of birthday pageantry Saturday for King Charles III, a military parade that marked the Princess of Wales ’ first appearance at a public event since her cancer diagnosis early this year. The annual event was also a show of stability by the monarchy...
U.S. supports ‘a just and lasting peace’ for Ukraine, Harris tells Zelenskyy at Swiss summit
OBBÜRGEN, Switzerland — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday pledged America’s full support in backing Ukraine and global efforts to achieve “a just and lasting peace” in the face of Russia’s invasion, representing the United States at an international gathering on the war and meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy to...
Haitian leaders oust police chief and appoint a new one as gang violence claims officers’ lives
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian leaders on Saturday ousted Frantz Elbé, the beleaguered director of Haiti’s National Police, following months of criticism that he wasn’t doing enough to protect officers under assault by gangs. Former Haitian police chief Normil Rameau, who also was dismissed from the post nearly four years ago...
