US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
Senate panel to vote on Blanche for attorney general after he shuts down $1.776...
Two Republican senators who had blocked the nomination demanded the fund be killed in writing. A second order narrows the tax settlement that created it.
El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary after AIPAC’s super PAC spends a record $30.6 million
Outside groups supplied 88 percent of the money spent on the Democratic side of a contest AdImpact ranks as the third most expensive Senate primary in US history.
James Talarico Accused Ken Paxton of Voter Fraud. His Own Voter Registration Is Raising...
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s review of the Democratic Senate candidate’s residency records found that he may have voted in up to five elections using an address where he no longer lived.
Two-thirds of US workers expect AI to make their jobs worse, Ipsos survey finds
Use of the tools is concentrated among college graduates and six-figure earners. Six percent of workers said they expect workers to be the main beneficiaries.
Trump announces capture of Maduro after U.S. military strikes on Venezuela, prompting congressional war...
As the captured Venezuelan leader was flown to New York to face federal charges, Senate Democrats moved to check what they called an unauthorized march toward another open-ended war.
Congress leaves Washington without a healthcare deal as subsidy deadlines and FY2026 funding fight...
Lawmakers head into the new year with enhanced ACA tax credits already lapsed and a Jan. 30 government funding deadline still unresolved.
The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
Major strikes drew 13% more workers in 2025 as sanitation, aerospace and health care...
Federal figures count only stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers, which EPI says leaves out many people who walk off the job, while a broader university tracker recorded a slight decline in total work stoppage activity.