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Customers queue up to order at an In-N-Out restaurant Sunday, June 2, 2024, in Lone Tree, Colo. On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, the Labor Department issues its report on prices at the consumer level in May. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

In-N-Out hikes prices, cites California’s $20 minimum wage

By Staff - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Scranton, Pa. Biden has begun three straight days of campaigning in Pennsylvania in his childhood hometown of Scranton. The Democratic president is using the working class city of roughly 75,000 as the backdrop for his pitch for higher taxes on the wealthy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump, Biden plans expose deep divisions in tax law philosophies

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

FILE - The NASA moon rocket rolls back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center Sept. 27, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. In Washington, a city that revolves around the federal government, the annual Best Places to Work survey is a closely-watched annual event worthy of bragging rights, provided you're one of the agencies like NASA or the Government Accountability Office who topped the survey. The survey, released Monday, May 20, 2024, uses information from the Office of Personnel Management's Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

What a blast to work at NASA. Space agency is sky-high again in latest survey of federal employees

By Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

Visitors follow Mickey Mouse for photos at Disneyland, Jan. 22, 2015, in Anaheim, Calif. Disneyland performers who help bring Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and other beloved characters to life at the Southern California resort chose to unionize following a three-day vote culminating on Saturday, May 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Disneyland character and parade performers in California vote to join labor union

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Chicago Tribune newsroom employees picket outside the newspapers Freedom Center newsroom and printing plant Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune is being sued, Thursday, May 16, by some of its staffers, who say they and other women and Black journalists are being paid less than their white male counterparts. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Chicago Tribune staffers’ unequal pay lawsuit claims race and sex discrimination

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The seal for the Justice Department is photographed in Washington, Nov. 18, 2022. The Justice Department has announced three arrests in a complex stolen identity scheme that officials say generates enormous proceeds for the North Korean government, including for its weapons program. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Justice Dept. makes arrests in North Korean identity theft scheme involving thousands of IT workers

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

White coffee cup on background. File photo credit: Dima Sobko via Shutterstock.

Popular D.C. coffee shops close amid union push

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Americans attending trade schools illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

America needs more people to attend trade schools

By Laura Johnston Clark

A woman walks past a pile of uncollected garbage near Eiffel Tower in Paris, Friday, March 24, 2023. Paris garbage collectors have lifted the strike notice that threatened to leave the French capital city under piles of junk during the Olympic Games after striking a deal that will improve their pay. Paris City Hall said in a statement on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 it sealed a deal with the workers and that the strike notice covering several days in May and a period from July to Sept. 8 had been lifted (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla, File)

Garbage collectors in Paris lift strike threat ahead of Olympic Games

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A Model X sports-utility vehicle sits outside a Tesla store in Littleton, Colo., June 18, 2023. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Tesla continues layoffs, zeroes in on California

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Former University of Alabama Head football coach Nick Saban, from left, speaks as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listens during a roundtable on the future of college athletics and the need to codify name, image and likeness rights for student-athletes, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 12, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Ex-coach Nick Saban says pro-union comments taken out of context

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

In this March 29, 2019, photo, a man smokes marijuana at a Spleef NYC canna-cocktail party in New York. Many employers in New York City could no longer require job applicants to be tested for marijuana use under legislation approved this week. The Democrat-led City Council passed a measure Tuesday, April 9, 2019, that would ban pre-employment testing for the drug, with certain exceptions. The law has the support of Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) **FILE**

Reports of workers swapping urine in drug tests surged sixfold last year as marijuana use grew

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Anna Lange, a sheriff's sergeant in Houston County, Ga., poses for a picture, Nov. 14, 2023. A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Georgia county illegally discriminated against the sheriff’s deputy by failing to pay for her gender-affirming surgery. In its ruling Monday, May 13, 2024 the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it was tasked with determining whether a health insurance provider can be held liable under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for denying coverage for a procedure because an employee is transgender. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, file)

Appeals court upholds ruling requiring Georgia county to pay for a transgender deputy’s surgery

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Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz testifies at a Senate committee on FISA investigation hearing, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

FBI pressured to give recourse to suspended whistleblowers; joblessness seen as means of punishment

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Peruvian Julia Paredes, center in white hat, listens to instructions from a Border Patrol agent with others seeking asylum as they wait to be processed after crossing the border with Mexico nearby, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Boulevard, Calif. Mexico has begun requiring visas for Peruvians in response to a major influx of migrants from the South American country. The move follows identical ones for Venezuelans, Ecuadorians and Brazilians, effectively eliminating the option of flying to a Mexican city near the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Just 46% of new immigrants are working, census data show

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Restaurant owners support Trump illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Restaurant owners indicate stronger support for Trump

By Gene Marks

United Auto Workers union supporters attended a May 4, 2024 rally in Birmingham, Ala.. A month after workers at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee overwhelmingly voted to unionize, the United Auto Workers is aiming for a key victory at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama. More than 5,000 workers at the facility in Vance and nearby battery plant will vote next week on whether to join the UAW. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

United Auto Workers faces a key test with upcoming vote at Alabama Mercedes plant

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The Maine State House is seen at sunrise, March 16, 2023, in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine governor’s vetoes sustained while lawmakers address late spending proposals

By David Sharp - Associated Press

La Scala theatre square is filled with 172 coffins, as many as the number of deaths at work that Lombardy recorded in 2023, during a flash mob organised by UIL trade union organization, in Milan, Italy, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Mock coffins fill a square in Milan in a protest over workplace safety in Italy

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United Auto Workers members walk in the Labor Day parade in Detroit, Sept. 2, 2019. More than 1,500 employees at Mercedes-Benz's Tuscaloosa, Alabama, plant have signed union cards with the United Auto Workers, the largest step yet in the union's effort to organize nonunion auto shops. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Mercedes denies accusations of union busting at Alabama plant

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times