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WASHINGTON—Once again waiting till the last minute, Congress approved a temporary money bill, called a continuing resolution (CR), to keep the government going, its lights on, and its functions continuing through early March. The measure averts a scheduled shutdown.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —It’s a presidential election year, and that means Cabinet secretaries often deviate from official duties to laud their presidential bosses, while the secretaries speak out on the hustings.

DES MOINES, Iowa  — A 90-times-criminally indicted and confirmed sexual abuser, Donald Trump, won the Republican caucuses in Iowa last night leaving far behind spineless rivals who never once during the campaign posed any kind of challenge to him or his ideas.

WASHINGTON —Fed up with the big Class I freight railroads’ incessant drive to put profits over people, and safety, and with federal regulators’ piecemeal and often pro-corporate responses, a coalition of rail freight unions issued a comprehensive analysis of the problem, with key recommendatio...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate is apparently tone-deaf to the rising popular demand for ending U.S. military aid to the Jewish state due to its massive bombing and other attacks on the people of Gaza. The deafness appeared January 16 when senators defeated a resolution by Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt.

CHICAGO — Worker centers and migrants’ advocates are demanding that President Biden, and particularly his Department of Homeland Security, publicize and publicly advocate a little-known DHS waiver of deportation for undocumented people who become whistleblowers about worker exploitation and abus...

MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Unionists at the AFL-CIO’s annual Martin Luther King conference, held January 12-14 in Montgomery, Ala., tackled what one panelist called a decades-long problem for the labor movement: Organizing the South.

DETROIT —As the Auto Workers embark on their massive campaign to organize the 150,000 non-union autoworkers in the U.S., 33 senators—one of every three—demand workers’ bosses, several of them intensely anti-worker, pledge company neutrality during its drive.

WASHINGTON—Frustrated that few politicians pay attention to closing the pay chasm between CEOs and the rest of us. the Congressional Progressive Caucus and an outspoken progressive think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies, teamed up to craft a plan to do just that.

VALLEY FORGE, Pa.—This time, Joe Biden didn’t pull punches: His GOP White House predecessor, Donald Trump, and Trump’s MAGA Republicans are an overwhelming threat to U.S. democracy and the U.S. Constitution, he has declared.