Employees, supporters and labor organizers hold signs as they strike a Starbucks location in Los Angeles. The Supreme Court ruled for Starbucks Thursday and limited the power of the judges and the National Labor Relations Board to protect union organizers. In a 9-0 decision, the court overturned a ruling by a federal judge in Tennessee who sided with the NLRB and ordered Starbucks to rehire the so-called “Memphis Seven.” In doing so, the justices set a higher legal standard to prevent judges...

San Francisco recognized Pride Month differently this year — by declaring itself a sanctuary for transgender and gender non-conforming people. The city's Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday in favor of the sanctuary status, making San Francisco one of the first major cities in the nation to do so. The resolution symbolically indicates those identifying as transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex and two-spirit are safe to seek transitioning health care and that providers...

Howard Fineman, a witty, encyclopedic political reporter who dominated the fast-evolving world of Washington journalism for nearly 40 years, moving effortlessly from daily news coverage to the pages of Newsweek magazine to cable news punditry and later to the frontiers of online journalism, died on Tuesday at his home in Washington. He was 75. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his son, Nick, said. After beginning his career at The Louisville Courier-Journal in Kentucky in the early 1970s,...

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, June 13 (Reuters) - One late afternoon in mid-May, a half dozen Hispanic day laborers were paid $20 each to parade in front of the White House on camera, holding signs with slogans like "I Love Biden" and "I Need Work Permit for My Family." The stunt was orchestrated by Nick Shirley, a pro-Trump online influencer who often asks migrants on camera if they support Democratic President Joe Biden or think he made it easier for them to come to the U.S.

Bill Gates has a new technology he’s excited about. The New York Times reports that the Microsoft co-founder is very excited about TerraPower, a nuclear power company working on a new type of reactor that’s smaller and could be more easily assembled than traditional nuclear power generators. “If you care about climate, there are many, many locations around the world where nuclear has got to work,” Gates told the newspaper. “I’m not involved in TerraPower to make more money. I’m involved in...

Senate Democrats have launched a probe into Jared Kushner's business activities as the GOP continues its investigation of Hunter Biden. Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, has come under scrutiny for receiving money from foreign governments including $2 billion from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in 2021, six months after he left his role as a White House adviser to the former president in January 2021.

American journalist Evan Gershkovich will stand trial in Russia on charges of spying for the CIA, prosecutors announced Thursday. Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was arrested in March 2023 on what many in the West consider trumped-up charges by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s repressive government. President Joe Biden has repeatedly called on Putin to release Gershkovich, 32, who was arrested while on a reporting trip in the Ural Mountains...

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a challenge to the common abortion drug mifepristone, saying the plaintiffs lacked standing. The ruling means the drug, used in the majority of abortions, may continue to be prescribed online and shipped by mail, upholding recent regulatory changes made by the Food and Drug Administration. The decision by the high court was unanimous and written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, an appointee of former President Donald Trump. It marks a major victory...

The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision Thursday ruled that a group of anti-abortion doctors does not have any legal basis to challenge access to mifepristone, one of the two common drugs used in medication abortion.  As a result, access to mifepristone won’t change.   The opinion, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, sided with the Biden administration and Danco, the manufacturer of the branded version of mifepristone. It reversed a lower court decision that would have made it...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled a group of doctors lacked legal standing to challenge the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of the abortion pill mifepristone, preserving access to the medication nationwide. The unanimous opinion was authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The case put abortion access back in the spotlight for the court after its conservative majority voted to overrule Roe v. Wade in 2022.