PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — Last Friday, Teamsters in practice picket lines in major cities across the country, including this one, sent a message to the United Parcel Service that they will strike if their demands are not met.

Enforcing the law regarding smaller crimes is not just a quality-of-life issue. Often, it helps apprehend dangerous or violent criminals who have a similar disregard for minor legal infractions as they do major crimes.

Last Monday, Russia exited a deal that allowed Ukraine to export its grain products through the Black Sea to the global market. Russia is now targeting Ukrainian grain storage facilities with heavy air and drone strikes.

Ukrainian drones struck buildings in Moscow on Monday. The buildings targeted apparently included one just across the street from a Russian GRU intelligence service facility. Alongside last week's Ukrainian strike on the Crimean Bridge, these strikes paint a picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin's vulnerability.

A perturbed employee is tired of being instructed to use his or her social media account to broadcast what the company wants to broadcast. The employee wrote into the New York Times workplace-advice column to ask: “Can the employer require employees to share on their personal social channels a post about a new person being hired to lead the organization, or about open jobs for which the organization is recruiting?”

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House Republicans are bracing for fights over spending as GOP leadership aims to bring the first two of 12 appropriations bills to the floor this week, despite vocal criticism from the party’s right flank over not cutting enough spending. Democrats are not expected to give the GOP any help with passing the funding bills, leaving...

Surging labor activity across the U.S. is laying the groundwork for the “summer of strikes,” as hundreds of thousands of workers get ready to hit the picket line. After more than two years of rising prices and corporate profits, workers across major industries are taking a stand for better compensation and working conditions. 5 things...

A pair of GOP lawmakers are blocking the State Department from providing $75 million in food assistance for Palestinian refugees, as civil society groups raise alarm over a worsening humanitarian crisis compounded by grain shortages from Russia’s war in Ukraine. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the top Republican lawmakers on the...

“There is no time to waste.” These are the final six words of the 2022 National Security Strategy—a clarion call for every American. The scale and scope of the challenges and opportunities we face as a country are exactly why the National Security Strategy calls this time the “decisive decade.” Those challenges and opportunities, our...