Stay updated with breaking news from Washington Post Empty. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, Republican state legislators and their allies have pushed an increasing number of measures to restrict the rights of gay and transgender Americans.
West Virginia factory is center stage in supply chain crisis, showing economy’s strains David J. Lynch PRICHARD, W.Va. — Whenever the Sogefi plant here runs out of resin or computer chips or cardboard boxes or wooden pallets or really anything at all, it’s Randy Simpkins’s problem. And whenever one of Sogefi’s customers howls about a late shipment, that’s Simpkins’s problem, too. These days, Simpkins has plenty of problems. The 42-year-old logistics manager is smack in the middle of a global supply chain crisis that reaches from factories in Europe to gia...