Gift cards and donations: Homeland Security standoff has TSA workers seeking relief

Before the longest government shutdown in U.S. history last fall, Susan, who will reach her 10th anniversary as a TSA employee next month, had finally paid off all of her debts – a feat for the single mother of a teenage son. But after that shutdown, and then the one after that, and now this … Read more

Winning numbers drawn in Wednesday’s Powerball

The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the “Powerball” game were: 14-18-19-21-69, Powerball: 1, Power Play: 3 (fourteen, eightteen, nineteen, twenty-one, sixty-nine, Powerball: one, Power Play: three) Estimated jackpot: $103 million For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets Source link

Monthly cash payments could boost disaster survivors. A Maui nonprofit tries it out

Mari Younger cherished her life in West Maui. She worked hard at her career in the restaurant industry and was proudly self-sufficient, happily living in the same condo for 11 years, lovingly doting on her cat, Stella. Then came a health emergency that forced her to leave her physically demanding work. Shortly after, fire destroyed … Read more

Live Updates: Iran war escalates, energy prices spike after Israeli strike on South Pars gas field

  8m ago Stocks slide and oil prices spike as Israeli strike hits “plumbing of the global energy system” Stock prices were down early Thursday and oil prices rose sharply as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran escalated. Israel’s Wednesday strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field, which is shared with Qatar, and President Trump’s threat … Read more

César Chavez and Dolores Huerta led a movement that won better wages and conditions for farmworkers

Dolores Huerta and the late César Chavez are both labor rights icons credited with leading a movement that pushed growers to negotiate for better wages and working conditions for farmworkers. Their legacies are getting new attention after allegations emerged that Chavez, who died in 1993, sexually abused Huerta and other women and girls. Several celebrations … Read more

César Chavez Day events renamed, postponed or canceled after sexual abuse allegations

Many of the upcoming celebrations and holidays honoring the late farmworker labor leader César Chavez are being renamed, postponed or completely canceled in the wake of allegations that he sexually abused women and girls while at the helm of the United Farm Workers Union. Labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed this week she was among … Read more

Tehran intensifies attacks on Gulf energy facilities after Israel hits Iranian gas field

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran intensified its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors’ energy infrastructure Thursday, setting Qatari liquefied natural gas facilities and a Kuwaiti oil refinery ablaze as it hit back following an Israeli attack on its main natural gas field, a major escalation in the Mideast war that has sent global fuel … Read more

Many work to reconcile César Chavez’s labor rights activist legacy with sexual abuse allegations

PHOENIX — Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband marched and fasted alongside César Chavez. They helped him open a radio station in Phoenix and plastered their Mexican restaurant with photos and a mural of the widely admired Latino icon. So when Wilcox’s daughter called this week to inform them of sexual abuse allegations that were … Read more

Japan’s Prime Minister Takaichi meets with Trump as he seeks help securing the Strait of Hormuz

WASHINGTON — The meeting that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will have at the White House on Thursday originally seemed like a prime opportunity to have President Donald Trump’s ear before he embarked on a trip to China. But now, the war in Iran and Trump’s unsuccessful call for Japan and other nations to help … Read more

Trump continues to push for release of Tina Peters as Colorado governor weighs clemency

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Wednesday renewed his calls to release Tina Peters, a pro-Trump election worker who was convicted for her role in a scheme aimed at finding evidence of election fraud in the president’s 2020 election loss. Peters, a former election clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, … Read more