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Kaiser Permanente mental health workers and supporters march outside during a 2022 event at a Kaiser facility in Sacramento, California. Roughly 75,000 health care workers at the Kaiser Permanente hospital system are poised to go on a three-day strike at hospitals in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Thousands of US health care workers go on strike in multiple states over wages and staff shortages

Some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walked off the job Wednesday in multiple states, kicking off a major health care strike in an extraordinary year for U.S. labor organizing and work stoppages.
Associated Press Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media Wednesday before entering the courtroom at New York Supreme Court in New York.

Trump lawyers go after accountant and appeal major pretrial ruling in New York fraud case

Warned to mind his out-of-court comments, former President Donald Trump returned to his New York civil fraud trial Wednesday as his defense lawyers closely questioned an accountant who prepared financial statements at the heart of the case. Outside the courtroom, Trump's lawyers appealed a key pretrial ruling that Trump engaged in fraud by inflating the values of prized assets including his Trump Tower penthouse.
Morgan State University Police Chief Lance Hatcher speaks Wednesday at a news conference after a shooting on campus in Baltimore. Multiple people were wounded, none critically, in a shooting that interrupted a homecoming week celebration at the university in Baltimore on Tuesday and prompted an hourslong lockdown of the historically Black college.

5 people were wounded in a shooting after a homecoming event at Morgan State University in Baltimore

A shooting interrupted a homecoming week celebration at Baltimore's Morgan State University on Tuesday, wounding five people and prompting an hourslong lockdown of the historically Black college.
President Joe Biden promised to help alleviate the burden of student debt while running for president, and he’s been under pressure to follow through even though his original plan was overturned by the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court.

The US is forgiving more federal student loans in a bid to tackle 'unsustainable debt' for borrowers

President Joe Biden announced another wave of federal student loan forgiveness on Wednesday as borrowers brace for payments to restart after a three-year pause that began during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, leaves the House floor Tuesday after being ousted as speaker of the House at the Capitol in Washington.
House speaker chaos stuns lawmakers, frays relationships and roils Washington
For the first time ever, a House speaker had been voted out of the position, plunging Congress into a new degree of turmoil. "Now what?" someone in the chamber yelled out.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves federal court during a July appearance in New York.
Prosecutor opens trial for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried saying he stole at least $10 billion
A prosecutor opened a fraud trial Wednesday by telling jurors that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was on top of the world a year ago, hobnobbing with celebrities, before his historic fraud was exposed, leaving customers and investors without at least $10 billion they thought was secure. A defense lawyer insisted his client didn't steal from anyone.
The Emergency Alert System is a national public warning system that’s designed to allow the president to speak to the American people within 10 minutes during a national emergency via specific outlets such as radio and television.
That blaring noise you heard? It was a test of the federal government's emergency alert system
The Emergency Alert System is a national public warning system that's designed to allow the president to speak to the American people within 10 minutes during a national emergency via specific outlets such as radio and television.
Emergency services attend the scene of a passenger bus accident late Tuesday near the city of Venice. Italian authorities say multiple people have been killed and others injured in a bus crash near Venice. The crash happened Tuesday when the bus fell from an elevated street in the Mestre borough on the mainland opposite the old city of Venice.
Italy launches an investigation after a bus with tourists plunges from a Venice overpass, killing 21
Residents of the Italian city of Venice stopped in dismay Wednesday to pay respects to the 21 foreign tourists who were killed when an all-electric shuttle bus crashed through an overpass guardrail and fence, plunging more than 30 feet to the ground.
The Supreme Court is taking up a case Wednesday that could make it harder to sue hotels when their websites are not clear enough about their accommodations for people with disabilities.
A test case of another kind for the Supreme Court: Who can sue hotels over disability access
The Supreme Court is taking up a case Wednesday that people with disabilities worry could make it harder to learn in advance what accommodations are available that meet their needs.
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. The U.S. State Department in a first-of-its-kind report has laid out Beijing’s growing efforts to reshape the global narrative on China, while spending billions of dollars to do so.
The U.S. warns of a Chinese global disinformation campaign that could undermine peace and stability
For much of the world, China's Xinjiang region is notorious, a place where ethnic Uyghurs face forced labor and arbitrary detention. But a group of visiting foreign journalists was left with a decidedly different impression.
Toddlers dance during play time at Living Water Child Care and Learning Center as center director Jackie Branch looks on in Williamson, West Virginia.
Child care programs just lost thousands of federal dollars. Families and providers scramble to cope
Kaitlyn Adkins is studying law to help families in her community impacted by the opioid epidemic at the heart of West Virginia coal country.
Copies of Pope Francis’ latest encyclical letter on environment “Laudate Deum” are on sale in a bookshop in Rome. Francis shamed and challenged world leaders on Wednesday to commit to binding targets to slow climate change before it’s too late, warning that God’s increasingly warming creation is fast reaching a “point of no return.”
Point of no return: Pope challenges leaders at UN talks to slow global warming before it's too late
Pope Francis shamed and challenged world leaders on Wednesday to commit to binding targets to slow climate change before it's too late, warning that God's increasingly warming creation is fast reaching a "point of no return."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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