Thursday, November 5, 2026
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, which serves Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Sabrina Dalton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water

A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
A polling place on election day. Photo: Tony Webster

NAACP sues Trump administration over armed agents at the polls

The suit cites a fatal Minneapolis shooting by federal agents as evidence of the fear such deployments can create.
The Las Vegas Strip, where Culinary Union members work in hotels and casinos. Photo: Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0

Hundreds of Las Vegas Culinary Union members are protesting their own union over health...

Dissidents say the new clinic-based plan limits their choice of doctors, while leaders describe a small group spreading misinformation about a plan with no premiums, copays or deductibles.
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Labor department sues Oklahoma nonprofit coffee chain over wages and tips

The lawsuit covers more than 320 employees, some with disabilities, going back to 2023
Parliament House in Canberra, where the federal Senate inquiry was held. Photo: jjron / GFDL 1.2

Australia’s youth justice crisis needs national leadership. The Senate inquiry is helpful but isn’t...

The federal Senate inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system should have mandated a minimum age of criminal responsibility.
An Allina Health hospital in Minneapolis. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0

Minnesota doctors strike for four days in a first for US hospitals

About 150 physicians at two Allina Health hospitals walked out this week after three years of bargaining over sick days, pay and a role in patient care.

Minnesota hospital doctors stage what union calls first private-sector physician strike in US history

Doctors at two Minneapolis-area hospitals say they're striking over artificial intelligence in patient care, not just pay.
Evanston, Illinois, home to the nation's first municipal reparations program. Photo: Nutmegger, public domain

Justice Department joins lawsuit to end the nation’s first reparations program

A legal fight in a Chicago suburb could decide whether any American city can ever pay reparations for housing segregation.
An Amazon fulfillment center. Photo: Tedder / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Leaked Amazon documents show warehouses ranked by union risk

The same warehouse where the documents surfaced already won union certification without a vote, after the labor board found Amazon's conduct during the campaign was deliberate and pervasive.
The U.S. Capitol, home to the House Oversight Committee. Photo: FEMA/Bill Koplitz, via Wikimedia Commons

Top Oversight Dem Opens Investigation of Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian Oligarch-Funded Wedding

Rep. Robert Garcia said the revelations that Umar Kremlev had bankrolled the wedding raise “serious national security and public corruption concerns” and requested the president’s son provide financial and other records about the arrangement.