Officials reconsider holidays, street names after abuse allegations tied to labor leader. In Dallas, a council member is questioning César Chávez Day ...

Mayor Karen Bass signed a proclamation on Thursday to rename the last Monday of March “Farm Workers Day” in the city of Los Angeles. “This is a very difficult day,” Bass acknowledged at the ...

Many states celebrate the civil rights icon on his birthday, March 31. Outrage and event cancellations have followed a New York Times report that he abused girls and women for years.

An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that the United Farm Workers co-founder groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the movement.

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Since returning to office, Donald Trump has been trying to flex his executive authority by changing ...

Economists also note that the report showed that wages are growing at the lowest rate in years. Although Americans’ earnings ...

Using satellite imagery, researchers have discovered that nearly 5% of Oregon and Washington’s western forest canopy — about the size of Rhode Island — was scorched and damaged in the multi-day 2021 ...

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, a judge sentenced six people involved in a fatal 2021 Labor Day shooting that killed three people in Northwest. On Oct. 30, three of the defendants were sentenced to over 100 ...

Three people involved in a triple homicide on September 4, 2021, in Washington, D.C., were sentenced to over 100 years each in prison. The sentences were handed down last Thursday, closing a case ...

Monday, Oct. 13, has the unique distinction of being the day two holidays are celebrated– Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day. Former President Joe Biden issued the first presidential ...

The US labor board has abandoned its allegations that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook violated federal labor law, one of many cases where the agency is adopting a more business-friendly ...

Inflation heated up in August to the fastest pace since January as weekly jobless claims climbed to their highest level in nearly four years — fueling worries the economy is sliding into a ...