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Bo Zaunders/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A dayslong holiday strike against Starbucks ended on Tuesday with the largest work stoppage ever carried out by the company’s unionized workers, involving strikes at more than 300 stores in dozens of cities nationwide, the union Starbucks Workers United said. “The company should be concerned because this is just […]
ABC NEWS/MICHAEL LE BRECHT II (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump has a massive personal stake in the upcoming election, which could either send him back to the White House — or to a courtroom for what could be years of legal proceedings under the looming threat of incarceration. No other presidential candidate in history has faced […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump walk together as they prepare to vote at a polling station setup in the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center, Mar. 19, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Donald Trump has boasted that his assets include the “Mona Lisas” […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday essentially rendered moot a string of ongoing state-level challenges to former President Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, also known as the “insurrection clause.” Both Colorado’s Supreme Court and Maine’s top election official had determined Trump […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — If an expulsion vote set for Friday achieves a two-thirds majority, Republican Rep. George Santos would be immediately expelled from the House of Representatives, according to the text of the expulsion resolution. Looking back at the last time a member of Congress was expelled — Ohio Democratic Rep. James Traficant […]
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson says he has a plan to keep the government open, at least for now. But if the rest of Washington doesn’t agree, a sizable portion of the federal government will grind to a halt come Saturday morning at 12:01 am EST — just […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The nation is barreling toward what could become one the largest government shutdowns in U.S. history beginning Oct. 1, with each of a dozen bills needed to keep funding flowing mired in Congress. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security payments won’t be affected. Neither will the U.S. Postal Service, which uses its […]
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