• Illinois vote takes center stage in battle over union rights

    Illinois vote takes center stage in battle over union rights

    Oct 20, 2022 12:51 AM EDT

    ... to use their collective clout to secure better pay, hours and working conditions. They also say it would prevent the Legislature, should it undergo a shift to the right, from passing a so-called right-to-work law that would allow workers covered by union contracts to not pay dues ...

  • What is quiet firing, and how do you know if it’s happening to you?

    What is quiet firing, and how do you know if it’s happening to you?

    Oct 18, 2022 10:11 PM EDT

    ... of Atlanta’s Wage Growth Tracker. These large-scale workforce changes have also ushered in a new dialogue about workplace culture. As part of that shift, terms like “quiet quitting” and “quiet firing” have emerged. WATCH: Why only certain people can ‘quiet quit’ Quiet quitting is when a worker slowly ...

  • #MeToo leaders take stock of the movement 5 years later

    #MeToo leaders take stock of the movement 5 years later

    Oct 14, 2022 04:31 PM EDT

    ... her first worry was that the work behind her phrase would be coopted. But she soon realized she had an enormous opportunity. “The kind of shift we need to see sustainable change, we’re still working toward. But the shift we’ve had in the last five years would have ...

  • California expands effort to eradicate illegal marijuana growing

    California expands effort to eradicate illegal marijuana growing

    Oct 12, 2022 09:21 PM EDT

    ... to prosecute underlying labor crimes, environmental crimes and the underground economy centered around illicit cultivation, said Attorney General Rob Bonta. He called it "an important shift in mindset and in mission" aimed at also aiding California's faltering legal market by removing dangerous competition. "The illicit marketplace outweighs the legal ...

  • WATCH: U.N. Security Council meets to discuss Nord Stream pipelines explosions

    WATCH: U.N. Security Council meets to discuss Nord Stream pipelines explosions

    Sep 30, 2022 05:49 PM EDT

    ... Putin’s pipeline claims as outlandish. “It was a deliberate act of sabotage. And now the Russians are pumping out disinformation and lies. We will work with our allies to get to the bottom (of) precisely what happened,” Biden promised, adding that divers would be sent down to inspect the ...

  • How Democrats and Republicans are courting Hispanic and Latino voters ahead of midterms

    How Democrats and Republicans are courting Hispanic and Latino voters ahead of midterms

    Sep 29, 2022 10:35 PM EDT

    Carlos Odio, Co-Founder, Equis Research: That's right. And the shift really, Laura, is, there were three in 10 Latino voters who voted for Trump in 2016. It was closer to four and 10 in 2020. That seems small, but, in this very hyperpolarized electorate, where most people have ...

  • Independents once ready to vote for Republicans wavering ahead of midterm elections

    Independents once ready to vote for Republicans wavering ahead of midterm elections

    Sep 19, 2022 06:34 PM EDT

    ... they are experiencing every day in their daily life. It's something they face themselves every day when they go to the grocery store." A shift by independents is particularly meaningful in Wisconsin, as Republicans work to overtake Democrats' one-seat majority in the Senate. Johnson, among the most vulnerable ...

  • Right-wing bloc wins narrow majority in Swedish parliament

    Right-wing bloc wins narrow majority in Swedish parliament

    Sep 14, 2022 07:49 PM EDT

    COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A right-wing bloc that includes a nationalist anti-immigration party won a narrow majority in Sweden’s parliament Wednesday. It was a major political shift in the Scandinavian country that had a decades-long history of welcoming refugees, but is grappling with a crime wave linked ...

  • Indiana faces a shifting abortion landscape as clinics shut down statewide

    Indiana faces a shifting abortion landscape as clinics shut down statewide

    Sep 10, 2022 06:08 PM EDT

    ... to train workers to take patients safely to its doors, creating a resource she wished she had years ago. But the program — and Knowlton’s work at the clinic — will end Sept. 15, when Indiana’s abortion ban comes into force, effectively closing down abortion clinics statewide. Indiana's Legislature ...

  • Cartoonist Art Spiegelman set to receive honorary National Book Award

    Cartoonist Art Spiegelman set to receive honorary National Book Award

    Sep 09, 2022 03:24 PM EDT

    ... the Holocaust inappropriate for the district's curriculum. Sales for “Maus” and other Spiegelman books surged, but the attention distracted him from other priorities. “My work schedule just got totally smashed to smithereens,” he said during a recent telephone interview. “I was happy to crawl back into my hideout.” Now ...