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WASHINGTON—Congress’s top leaders were scheduled to meet with Democratic President Joe Biden on February 27 as yet another government shutdown threat loomed again, for the third time in fewer than six months.

WASHINGTON—Top union leaders Shawn Fain of the Auto Workers and Becky Pringle of the National Education Association exhorted unionists to organize workers—in and out of their own unions—to demand a ceasefire now in the Middle East war, a conflict where the Israeli military ravages Gaza and its...

WASHINGTON—Derogation of same-sex marriage by right-wing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in a statement he made this week regarding a Missouri court case underlines the danger that the High Court is preparing to end same sex marriage, the second time it would reverse a constitutional right in t...

NEW YORK—Former Republican Oval Office occupant Donald Trump not only committed massive financial frauds to build his real estate empire but his “complete lack of contrition and remorse” about them—when New York state caught him—“borders on the pathological,” the state judge who decide...

NEW YORK—Former Republican Oval Office occupant Donald Trump not only committed massive financial frauds to build his real estate empire but his “complete lack of contrition and remorse” about them—when New York state caught him—“borders on the pathological,” the state judge who decide...

WASHINGTON—After weeks of quiet consolidation of their coalition, Labor for a Ceasefire, a group of seven big unions, 220 other locals and central labor councils, and two other groups, will go public with its mass movement advocating a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War.

LONG ISLAND— Democrat Tom Suozzi’s victory in a special election in New York’s Nassau-Queens 3rd Congressional District on Long Island is one more defeat for MAGA Republicans who have been losing special and local elections ever since women and their supporters rose up against the Supreme Cour...

NEW YORK—For the first time in history an ex-president is about to go on trial for a crime. A New York State Supreme Court judge has ruled Donald Trump’s criminal trial for hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, to keep her story of their affair out of that year’s presidentia...

WASHINGTON—The nation’s unions have launched a crash drive, trying to mobilize members quickly against a Republican plan for a secretive commission to cut Social Security and Medicare, before House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can rush it through. In a jammed D.C.

WASHINGTON—Stressing the conflict’s profound impact on Palestinian and Israeli schoolkids, and others worldwide fearfully eyeing the war, the National Education Association’s board reaffirmed the union’s prior demand for a total cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.