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SEIU Local 721 Workers Go on Strike in Los Angeles

Public hospitals diverted ambulances. Beach crews cleared wildfire debris without heavy equipment. Libraries closed. Thousands of nurses stayed home.A two-day strike in Los...

Dramatic Video Shows a Speedboat Flipping Through the Air at 200 M.P.H.

The high-powered speedboat skimmed across Lake Havasu in Arizona, its throttle pressed harder and harder by its operator until the boat reached more...

Trump Fires Biden Appointees, Including Doug Emhoff, From Holocaust Museum

The Trump administration has begun firing at least some of former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s appointees to the board that oversees the...

Harvard Promises Changes After Reports on Antisemitism and Islamophobia

A Harvard task force released a scathing account of the university on Tuesday, finding that antisemitism had infiltrated coursework, social life, the hiring...

Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks Mass Firings at Consumer Bureau

Federal judges have again intervened to temporarily stave off mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the watchdog agency that oversees banks...

Pittsburgh Funeral Home Tossed Pets’ Remains in Landfill, Prosecutors Say

The owner of a Pittsburgh funeral home dumped the remains of thousands of dogs and cats in a landfill after their owners had...

Republicans Freeze House Efforts to Compel Information From Trump

House Republicans on Tuesday quietly closed off a way for members of Congress to force votes demanding information from the Trump administration, the...

Federal Watchdog Reveals Dozens of Inquiries Into Trump’s Withholding of Funds

An independent federal watchdog has opened more than three dozen investigations into the Trump administration to determine if it has illegally withheld billions...

Supreme Court Considers Suit Over F.B.I.’s Raid of the Wrong House

Very early on a fall morning in 2017, F.B.I. agents knocked down the front door of a home in Atlanta with a battering...

Trump Administration’s Justice Dept. Firings Prompt a Slew of Legal Fights

Dozens of fired Justice Department lawyers are fighting their dismissals in court, part of a growing tsunami of legal cases arising from the...

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