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Miners continue strike in Alabama after contract rejected

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BROOKWOOD, Ala. (AP) — A strike is continuing at two Alabama coal mines after union members rejected a contract proposal. The United Mine...

ICU nurse Meynard Villa poses for photos in his start-up senior care home in Arcadia, Calif., Thursday, March 25, 2021. Villa was on the verge of losing his family’s $150,000 investment in his new senior care home because he couldn't hire workers while grappling with a glitchy state system designed to automate criminal background checks.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Troubled background check system delays elder care hiring

By Don Thompson Apr. 10, 2021 11:05 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Idaho

By The Associated Press Apr. 09, 2021 03:06 PM EDT
Recent editorials from Idaho newspapers: Welcome back, Idaho legislators. Wear a mask. We’re not paying for another recess ...

Senegal's President Macky Sall, left, welcomes Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez prior to a meeting at the presidential palace in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, April 9, 2021. Sanchez is on a mini-tour to Angola and Senegal that are key in the European country's new push to bolster ties with the neighboring continent and mitigate the migration flows that many fear could increase as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Senegal, Spain leaders seek to encourage legal migration

By Babacar Dione Apr. 09, 2021 02:00 PM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 30, 2021 file photo, a banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. Vote counting in the union push in Bessemer is expected to start as early as Thursday, April 8, but hundreds of contested ballots could muddy the outcome if it’s a close race. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)
Amazon warehouse workers reject union bid in Alabama

By Joseph Pisani, Alexandra Olson And Anne D'innocenzio Apr. 09, 2021 11:32 AM EDT

Demonstrators chant as they declare victory and celebrate the passage of the New York state budget with the ending their hunger strike that lasted 23 days, Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in the Manhattan borough of New York. New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status, could apply for help from a new $2.4 billion rental relief program that will offer 12 months of overdue rent and utilities, three prospective months of rent and a year of eviction protection. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
New York to offer COVID aid to immigrants excluded earlier

By Marina Villeneuve And Karen Matthews Apr. 08, 2021 03:11 PM EDT

A hiring sign is seen outside home improvement store in Mount Prospect, Ill., Friday, April 2, 2021. The pace of job openings reached the highest level on record in February, a harbinger of healthy hiring and a hopeful sign for those looking for work. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
US jobless claims up to 744K as virus still forces layoffs

By Paul Wiseman Apr. 08, 2021 08:37 AM EDT

US jobless claims rise to 744,000 as some employers keep cutting jobs amid pandemic

Apr. 08, 2021 08:32 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — US jobless claims rise to 744,000 as some employers keep cutting jobs amid pandemic. ...

Holocaust survivor Fanny Amar wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus holds a rose as she and others attend the yearly Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Haifa, Israel, Thursday, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
The Latest: US 7th Fleet: 14,000 personnel fully vaccinated

By The Associated Press Apr. 08, 2021 01:26 AM EDT

Navajo Nation finalizes solar plant leases on tribal land

Apr. 07, 2021 07:31 PM EDT
CAMERON, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation is moving forward with two more solar plants on the reservation that are expected to generate millions of dollars in...

Editorial Roundup: Florida

By The Associated Press Apr. 07, 2021 05:57 PM EDT
Recent editorials from Florida newspapers: ___ Aril 7 The South Florida Sun Sentinel on honoring...

Complaint may spur review of meat industry's virus response

By Josh Funk Apr. 07, 2021 05:42 PM EDT
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A union complaint about whether an Oklahoma meatpacking plant is doing enough to protect workers from the coronavirus could test the...

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, file photo, Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union holds a sign outside an Amazon facility where labor is trying to organize workers in Bessemer, Ala. Nearly 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, have voted on whether or not to form a union. But the process to tally all the ballots and determine an outcome will continue for a second week, according to the National Labor Relations Board, a government agency that’s conducting the election.(AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)
EXPLAINER: What to know about the Amazon union vote count

By Joseph Pisani Apr. 07, 2021 04:43 PM EDT

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signs a bill related to the American Rescue Plan Act in the Rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
Beshear signs bills to appropriate federal relief money

By Bruce Schreiner Apr. 07, 2021 03:34 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press Apr. 07, 2021 03:24 PM EDT
Plattsburg Press Republican. April 1, 2021. Editorial: Be smart, patient a little longer People may have their...

Nebraska advances unemployment benefit for family caregivers

Apr. 06, 2021 05:19 PM EDT
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska residents who stop working temporarily to care for a family member with a serious health condition could claim unemployment...

Together for Peru transgender congressional candidate Gahela Cari, campaigns in the Casachacra shanty town on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Like virtually all political candidates, Cari has had to face off attacks over her proposals during her campaign for a seat in Peru's congress, but unlike the rest, she has also had to fend off transphobic harassment. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Discrimination part of everyday life for Peru's trans people

By Regina Garcia Cano Apr. 06, 2021 09:35 AM EDT

Union, coal company reach tentative deal to end strike

Apr. 06, 2021 08:18 AM EDT
BROOKWOOD, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama coal company has reached a tentative deal with labor to end a strike that idled more than 1,100 workers in Tuscaloosa County,...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., listens to a reporters question during a press conference at a COVID vaccination site in Lexington, Ky., Monday, April 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
McConnell downplays need for aid to home state's government

By Bruce Schreiner Apr. 05, 2021 03:56 PM EDT

This artist rendering released by the New York Philharmonic shows the interior of David Geffen Hall in New York. The New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts are accelerating the reconstruction of Geffen Hall because of the novel coronavirus pandemic and plan to reopen the auditorium in fall of 2022, about 1 1/2 years ahead of the original schedule. (Diamond Schmitt Architects/New York Philharmonic via AP)
Geffen Hall rebuild speeded due to virus, reopen in fall '22

By Ronald Blum Apr. 05, 2021 12:50 PM EDT