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WASHINGTON—A major investigation by the news site ProPublica has—by sifting through thousands of documents, poring over 111 court cases over 15 years about safety issues and interviewing hundreds of rail workers willing to talk--revealed in detail how the nation’s major freight railroads have...
WASHINGTON—The first Jewish House member to break ranks with President Joe Biden, Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., says Israel cannot and should not bomb heavily populated areas of Gaza, but also that Hamas must be ousted from power.
Appellate Judge David Stras spoke for the two-judge-majority. Former Republican Oval Office occupant Donald Trump, a white nationalist sympathizer, put Stras on the bench. Stras’s decision backed a lower court judge—also Trump-named—against the Voting Rights Act.
SAN FRANCISCO—Building on the provisions of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact, the White House says the Biden administration launched a “whole-of-government initiative,” via an executive order, to use trade pacts and other leverage to advance worker rights worldwide.
WASHINGTON—It says something about today’s congressional Republicans that one GOP representative elbowed another in his kidney and that a hotheaded MAGAite Republican senator tried to fight a union leader during a committee hearing.