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BALTIMORE—Destruction of the vital Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, when a city-block-long container cargo ship weighing almost 100,000 tons lost power and crashed into a central pier on March 26, will have wide ramifications for jobs, trade, and infrastructure.

President Biden came under vicious attack from Donald Trump and the GOP’s fascist MAGA religious right for celebrating March 31— which corresponded with Easter Sunday this year — as “Transgender Day of Visibility.

Editor’s note: Bill Knight from the Labor Paper is, like People's World, a member of the International Labor Communications Association. DOWNERS GROVE, Ill.

WASHINGTON—Alon-Lee Green, the founder of Israel’s first union of waiters and bartenders, is demanding the U.S. cut off all military aid to Israel to force its rabidly right-wing Netanyahu government to end its war on Gaza and its civilian population.

NEW YORK—Judges up and down the East Coast, starting with the U.S. Supreme Court, are—with one or two exceptions—greasing the skids to let Donald Trump get away with his multitude of crimes. On top of all of that Trump is celebrating the news that he is newly wealthy again, at least on paper.

CLEVELAND—Extreme right-wing Cleveland business owner Bernie Moreno, Donald Trump’s favorite candidate—who infamously stiffed his workers on overtime pay—easily won the Ohio Republican U.S. Senate primary on March 19.

ATLANTA—Donald Trump may plan to tear up the U.S. Constitution, but a former foe for the GOP presidential nomination, right-wing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, already tried—and in scathing language, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals shot him and his ‘Stop WOKE Act’ down.

WASHINGTON—Democratic President Joe Biden’s proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2025, which starts October 1, raises taxes on corporations and the rich while—among other priorities—expands federal power to cut prescription drug prices.

WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden’s last State of the Union address before the 2024 elections laid out an agenda of sharp contrasts, with economic populism dominating domestic policy and Cold War confrontation and militarism defining his international strategy.

SEATTLE—Workers at REI Cooperative stores, some from as far away as New York, Chicago, and New Castleton, Ind., marched on company headquarters just outside Seattle on March 7, demanding the co-op bargain in good faith with them, and bringing their contract goals.