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Former SAG-AFTRA executive director David White is interim executive director of the NFLPAAug 04, 2025 8:58 pm - Former SAG-AFTRA executive director David White was elected interim executive director of the NFL Players Association. White replaces Lloyd Howell, who stepped down last ...
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Boeing addresses more labor strife amid attempt to resuscitate its reputationAug 04, 2025 12:45 pm - A strike by thousands of workers that build fighter jets for Boeing at three U.S. plants is the second labor disruption for the plane builder in less than a year.
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Dow leaps 585 points as US stocks win back most of Friday's wipeoutAug 04, 2025 12:43 pm - U.S. stocks rallied on Monday and won back most of their sharp loss from last week, when worries about how President Donald Trump’s tariffs may be punishing the economy sent a shudder through Wall Street.
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In ‘Sinners’ and his music, Buddy Guy is keeping the blues alive. It hasn’t been easy.Aug 04, 2025 12:41 pm - For Chicago musician Buddy Guy — a stalwart and staunch defender of the blues — there’s nothing more important than keeping his chosen genre at the forefront of conversation. His new album, “Ain’t Done With the Blues,” released last week on Guy’s 89th birthday.
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Book Review: Jason Mott’s ‘People Like Us’ explores the struggles of semi-fame and American identityAug 04, 2025 10:40 am - How does one follow up writing “A Hell of a Book” that wins the National Book Award? If you’re Jason Mott, you write a sort-of, not-really, by all legal terms fictionalized — according to the forward — autobiographical story about what life is like as a semi-famous writer.
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Hank Hill returns to a changed world in new ‘King of the Hill’ episodesAug 04, 2025 10:27 am - Hank Hill is back and he’s the same ol’ Hank Hill, but a lot of things around him have changed. The lovable animated hero of “King of the Hill” has returned from a 15-year lull and he isn’t sure what boba tea is, how ridesharing works and more.
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Democratic governors may offer a path forward for a party out of power in WashingtonAug 04, 2025 8:24 am - Anderson Clayton wanted a headline name to speak at North Carolina Democrats' summer gala — but the state party chair bypassed familiar Capitol Hill figures, looking instead to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
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Texas Democrats arrive in Illinois to block vote back home on redrawn House maps sought by TrumpAug 04, 2025 8:07 am - A standoff in Texas over redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump sharply escalated Sunday when dozens of Democratic legislators left the state to block a vote, followed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott warning them that he will seek their removal from office if they don’t return.
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Thousands of Boeing workers who build fighter jets go on strikeAug 04, 2025 7:29 am - Thousands of workers at three Boeing manufacturing plants went on strike overnight less than a year after the company boosted wages to end a separate, 53-day strike by 33,000 aircraft workers.
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Texas governor threatens to remove Democrats who left state over Trump-backed redistrictingAug 04, 2025 7:25 am - Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state...