Health care industry

UAW president downplays White House involvement in strike talks

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain on Monday said the White House will have no role in brokering an agreement…

Sen. Bernie Sanders calls out automaker CEOs at UAW strike rally: ‘It is time for you to end your greed’

Sen. Bernie Sanders addressed striking autoworkers in Detroit on Friday, calling on working people across the U.S. to stand in…

Arm debut will help jump-start IPO market, early Airbnb investor Rick Heitzmann suggests

Arm Holdings will help jump-start the IPO market, according to the venture capitalist behind Airbnb and Pinterest. FirstMark Capital’s Rick…

More than 60,000 Kaiser Permanente workers vote to authorize strike

More than 60,000 health-care workers on Thursday voted to authorize a strike against Kaiser Permanente if an agreement is not…

Planned Parenthood will resume abortions in Wisconsin after court rules against 1849 ban

Planned Parenthood will resume abortions in Wisconsin next week, after a state court ruled that a 174-year-old criminal law does…

Child poverty more than doubled in U.S. after expanded tax credits, stimulus checks ended

Child poverty more than doubled in the U.S. last year after financial assistance that supported families during the earlier days…

2023 severe weather: $57 billion in damage and 253 people dead so far

The U.S. has suffered the highest number of billion-dollar weather disasters on record this year with wildfires and severe storms…

Two 9/11 victims identified more than two decades after World Trade Center attacks

Two victims who perished in the World Trade Center have been identified more than two decades after the Sept. 11,…

Congress returns with the clock ticking to avert government shutdown, fund U.S. disaster response

A deeply divided Congress returned Tuesday from a monthlong summer vacation with the clock ticking to pass spending legislation to…

Mitch McConnell brain scans found no stroke, seizures after second freeze, doctor says

Brain scans conducted on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell found no evidence he has a seizure disorder or experienced a…