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SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO, even as arresting labor’s decline remains a daunting challenge.

“It means that humanitarian organisations, church groups and various human rights organisations can now move aid to help the people in Cuba without facing any sort of US sanctions,” Fisher said.

Trump’s appeal will decide how the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling applies to his hush money case.

The rate of inflation has cooled for two years, and not everything is going up in price. So why does paying at checkout still cause such heartburn? What gives? NPR set off to answer that question at the most popular retailer in the United States.

Political cinema can sometimes be too highbrow for a mass audience. But in the 1960s and early '70s, French-Greek director Costa-Garvas showed that films with a revolutionary message can also be popular.

Judgement Day for the merchants of death

In California, policymakers have long warned that continued development in high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying fires. But real estate interests have lobbied hard against any development restrictions, helping exacerbate the LA fires.

The future of labor law has rarely looked so perilous for unions.

The incoming president and his Bitcoin-loving acolytes want to turn the government into their personal ATM.

Ain’t Gonna Play Acoustic Guitar No More (1965), 40 Acres and a Mule Was Working Fine (1865), ‘Your Heritage Is My Slavery’ (2000)