CHICAGO (AP) — More than 200 reporters, photographers and other staffers with the Chicago Tribune and six other newsrooms around the nation began a 24-hour strike Thursday to protest years of “slow-walked” contract negotiations and to demand fair wages. The strike, which includes 76 members of the Chicago Tribune reporting staff, photographers and some editors, […]
BERLIN — A union has called on security staff at most of Germany‘s major airports to stage a one-day strike on Thursday as it steps up pressure on employers in a pay dispute. The ver.di union announced the strikes on Tuesday. It said the strike will affect Germany‘s busiest airport, Frankfurt, as well as Hamburg, […]
After Iran-backed militants killed three American soldiers and wounded dozens of others with a drone strike, Joe Biden promised that we would “strike back.” We still haven’t seen that response, but we’ve been told that it’s on the way. Meanwhile, the Iranians do not appear to be backing down at all. In fact, they’re promising […]
A tight-lipped President Biden said Tuesday he’s decided how to respond to the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops at a remote base in Jordan on Sunday, but offered no details and again said he doesn’t want the U.S. embroiled in a wider conflict in the Middle East. Departing for Florida, Mr. Biden told […]
The Feds United for Peace protesters have popped up again. They are participating in a hunger strike to protest the Biden administration’s support of Israel in the Israel-Hamas war. It is only a one-day hunger strike so my question is, how serious are these people? C’mon. One day? People fast for a day all the […]
NEWTON, Mass. — A teachers strike in a Boston suburb entered its eighth day Tuesday – one of the longest in recent state history – with both sides still unable to agree on salaries and other issues, and tensions fraying. The Newton School Committee on Tuesday said it made another revised offer to the Newton […]
President Biden said Tuesday he’s decided how to respond to the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan, but said he doesn’t want a wider conflict in the Middle East. Departing for Florida, Mr. Biden wouldn’t elaborate on what that response would entail. He told reporters that he holds Iran partly responsible for […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Described by their parents as bubbly and constantly laughing, Spc. Kennedy Sanders and Spc. Breonna Moffett became close friends soon after enlisting in the Army Reserve five years ago. Sgt. William Jerome Rivers served a tour in Iraq before joining the same company of Army engineers. The three citizen-soldiers from different corners […]
During their last phone conversation, Spc. Kennedy Sanders told her mother she wanted to take her military career to a new level when she returned home from the Middle East. She also revealed, to her mother’s strict disapproval, that she was thinking of buying a motorcycle. The 24-year-old Army reservist and her family were already […]
Anger flowed Sunday from Republican senators after news emerged that a drone attack on a U.S. base in Jordan left three Americans dead and more than 25 wounded. The attack on the outpost identified as Tower 22 took place Sunday in northeast Jordan near Syria border. President Joe Biden blamed the attack on extremists backed […]
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