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The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.

Later this month, the umbrella organization of New York City public-sector unions will vote on a proposed cost-saving municipal health plan negotiated by city and union officials with two major insurance firms.

The planet in play

Growing divide across US as membership increasing – and wages higher – in states that protect workers’ rights.

A new book by Danish MP Pelle Dragsted argues that socialists can start building economic democracy even before capitalism is fully overcome.

The flotilla sails as a lawful act of civil society, seeking to challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza and deliver essential humanitarian aid to a starving population

The Democratic rank and file is much more aligned with Bernie, AOC, and Zohran than it is with Chuck and Hakeem.

“If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see? So now I can’t claim 100 percent [reduction in crime],” the president said Monday.

Culture wars turning from cold to hot

Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing sees the typically pretentious auteur shift gears toward fun and violence in late 1990s NYC. It’s a throwback to gritty 1970s filmmaking but set in the Giuliani era — the perfect setting for downwardly mobile 2025