Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, gave a great sign of the strength he would need to lead the Union through the Civil War in his first act before taking the oath of office: He named his top competitors for the Republican nomination to his Cabinet.

PHOTO, WITH CAPTION BELOW IT, FROM HER OFFICE VIA THE NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS. DOUBLE BYLINE WITH DON MCINTOSH OF THE PAPER. WASHINGTON—An Oregon Republican lawmaker opposed by organized labor, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who narrowly lost her U.S.

WASHINGTON—By lopsided margins, while President Biden was escalating the war in Ukraine, senators rejected more attempts by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., to cut off U.S.

BALTIMORE—Short-staffing, low pay and the resulting revolving door of registered nurses joining and then leaving Ascension Health Care's St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore led RNs there to take their case to the ultimate authority over the Ascension chain: The nation's Catholic bishops.

WASHINGTON—Unions and progressive organizations of all types are threatened with massive dollar losses by losing their tax-exempt status as non-profit organizations in a bill the House passed on November 21, News Guild President Jon Schleuss warns. It also could be an instrument of repression, he adds. The measure could, for example, be used against an organization a Trump administration decided was in support of Palestinians.

SHERMAN, Texas—Once again, a Trump-named federal judge in rural Texas has ruled for the corporate class, this time by rolling back the Biden administration’s expansion of overtime pay eligibility for an estimated four million workers. In his Nov.

WASHINGTON—One by one, the criminal cases against Donald Trump are falling by the wayside, with the most important—federal prosecution for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attempted

WASHINGTON—Faced with the looming prospect of a second right-wing Donald Trump regime, more than a hundred Washington, D.C., activists met Nov. 21 to strategize how to battle the president and a hostile congressional majority.

WASHINGTON—Fouled up weather forecasts. Staff shortages slowing services. More workers dying of heat stroke on the job. More pollution, which leads to more asthma and unclean water. Cut down school lunches, with none in the summer. Veterans not getting VA health care. More hate crimes. Weaker labor laws and enforcement.

WASHINGTON—Trade unions offered mixed reactions to Republican President-Elect Donald Trump's most recent two Cabinet nominees: Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., who lost her re-election bid to a labor-endorsed Democratic state lawmaker in an anti-MAGA tide in Oregon, and retired Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., the second Fox “News” commentator Trump wants in his Cabinet.