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Facebook Tweet Email Link Reuters  —  Boeing Defense and the machinists union have reached a tentative deal to end a five-week-long strike in the St. Louis area, union officials announced on Wednesday. A vote on Boeing’s five-year contract offer is scheduled for Friday, according to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. IAM District 837’s roughly 3,200 members, who …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Within a week of Donald Trump’s election, Sen. Lindsey Graham counseled the president-elect to quickly send a message to the drug cartels from the White House. “Blow up something,” Graham told Trump. The brazen military strike on a suspected drug-smuggling speedboat carrying 11 people from Venezuela this month is just what the South Carolina senator had in …

Teamsters workers picket in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota. Albert Curtis, second from the right, has worked in facilities management for 37 years and said he’s striking to support younger workers having a sustainable future. Bethel Tsegaye, second from left, said they’re fighting for living wages. (Eleanor Hildebrandt) 7:06 a.m. – The picket lines started early outside Centennial and …

Venezuelan Boat Suspected of Drug Smuggling Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Strike  The New York Times Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians  The Intercept A killing at sea marks America’s descent into lawless power  Defense One Vance defends strike on suspected smugglers off Venezuela but concedes ‘due process concerns’  Politico Eight days later, questions linger about Venezuela …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Within a week of Donald Trump’s election, Sen. Lindsey Graham counseled the president-elect to quickly send a message to the drug cartels from the White House. “Blow up something,” Graham told Trump. The brazen military strike on a suspected drug-smuggling speedboat carrying 11 people from Venezuela this month is just what the South Carolina senator had in …

Vance defends strike on suspected smugglers off Venezuela but concedes ‘due process concerns’  Politico Eight days later, questions linger about Venezuela boat strike  Reuters A killing at sea marks America’s descent into lawless power  Defense One Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians  The Intercept Venezuela Says ‘Everything’s Fair Game’ After US Boat Attack  Bloomberg Source link

Anglo American (LON: AAL) is acquiring Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A TECK.B, NYSE: TECK), Canada’s largest diversified miner, in a $50-billion all-share merger that would create the world’s fifth-largest copper producer — if regulators in Canada, the United States and China sign off. Anglo will exchange 1.3301 shares for each Teck share, a structure it called a “zero-premium” merger. The math tells a …

Trump Live Updates: Epstein’s Birthday Book, Tariffs and Israel-Qatar Strike  The New York Times Supreme Court to hear arguments over Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs  CNN Supreme Court will hear Trump tariffs case on fast track  CNBC Supreme Court will expedite Trump tariff case  Axios Supreme Court agrees to consider Trump tariffs appeal on expedited basis  MSNBC News Source link

Capitol agenda: Why this ‘nuclear’ strike isn’t blowing up the Senate  Politico Senate GOP leader moves to lower filibuster threshold for Trump nominees through nuclear option  Fox News Thune Moves to Speed Trump Nominees Past Democratic Blockade  The New York Times Blast radius of Senate GOP’s latest ‘nuclear’ move could be limited  Politico Senate Republicans eye ‘nuclear option’ for rules change to speed up …

Twenty-three people have been killed in a Russian air strike on a village in eastern Ukraine, according to a local official. The victims were ordinary people collecting their pensions in the Donetsk settlement of Yarova, said President Volodymr Zelensky. Donetsk regional leader Vadym Filashkin said emergency services were at the scene and as many people were wounded as killed. Yarova …