Los Angeles teachers begin strike, 640,000-student school system shuts
More than 30,000 Los Angeles teachers demanding higher pay walked off the job in the second-largest U.S. school system on Monday, leaving hundreds of thousands of students in limbo, union officials said.
UPS says police responding to shooter at New Jersey facility
Police were responding to an “active shooter situation” on Monday at a United Parcel Service Inc processing facility in Logan Township, New Jersey, the company said.
Volkswagen to invest $800 million, build new electric vehicle in U.S.
Volkswagen AG said on Monday it was investing $800 million to build a new electric vehicle at its plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and scheduled a briefing with Ford Motor Co for Tuesday on their efforts to forge a global alliance.
U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to consumer protection bureau
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Texas bank’s constitutional challenge to the structure of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, passing up a case that could have led to more presidential power over an independent agency that Pre…
Supreme Court rejects U.S. troops’ appeal over ‘burn pits’ illnesses
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a bid by U.S. troops sickened by smoke from open-air pits used to burn waste in Iraq and Afghanistan to revive a lawsuit against defense contractors KBR Inc and Halliburton Co.
Accused captor of 13-year-old Wisconsin girl to face murder, kidnap charge
The man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl after murdering her parents is due in court on Monday to face charges, days after the teen ended her 88-day-ordeal by escaping the rural home where she was held hostage.
U.S. government shutdown drags into fourth week amid stalemate
President Donald Trump on Monday rejected a Republican call for temporarily reopening shuttered U.S. government agencies in order to encourage negotiations with Democrats on border security issues, as a partial government shutdown limped through its 24…
LA teachers’ strike all but certain as talks stall
More than 30,000 teachers are expected to walk off the job in public schools across Los Angeles early on Monday in the first teachers’ strike in the city in 30 years.
Worst is over for winter storm that clobbered U.S. Midwest, D.C. and New England
The deadly winter storm that clobbered a swath of the U.S. Midwest and East Coast over the weekend is blowing out to sea, but leaves as much as 13 inches of snow in Washington, D.C. and Virginia, and frigid arctic air parked over New England.
President Trump can’t stop U.S. coal plants from retiring
More U.S. coal-fired power plants were shut in President Donald Trump’s first two years than were retired in the whole of Barack Obama’s first term, despite the Republican’s efforts to prop up the industry to keep a campaign promise to coal-mining stat…
