When former Amazon worker Chris Small recounted his experience leading the first successful union campaign at the online retailer earlier this year, the government’s top labor lawyer was listening — and dismayed by what she heard.  “I was frustrated to hear that one of the greatest obstacles he faced was …

Smith & Wesson’s CEO is faulting “politicians and their lobbying partners in the media” for increased gun violence across the U.S., saying weapons manufacturers are being unfairly blamed. The written comments by Mark Smith, posted Monday in a statement on the company’s website, came weeks after the executive refused to testify before …

Lester Bonner, a tobacco farmer in Virginia, opened his mailbox one morning last June to find a letter from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The five-page missive said the remaining balance on a $50,000 federal loan he’d received to help him buy his farm would soon be wiped clean.  “It was going …

An independent journalist found dead in northern Mexico was killed by a blow to the head, authorities said Tuesday, reporting the latest in 14 slayings of Mexican reporters and media workers so far this year, the deadliest in recent memory for the profession. Prosecutors in the border state of Sonora …

The legal and political battles over the search of former President Trump’s Florida residence this week are just beginning, and among the questions to be settled are those revolving around the classified documents he is alleged to have taken with him from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.  FBI agents seized …

Investors are taking encouragement from another economic signal showing that inflation is cooling. An index that measures the price sellers get for their goods and services fell 0.5% in July, the Labor Department said Thursday. That marks the first decline in the Producer Price Index since April 2020, as COVID-19 …

A man accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in a taxi in the Dallas area in 2008 told jurors in his capital murder trial on Monday that he fled the vehicle before they were killed because he thought someone wanted to kill him. A family member has said …

On this “Face the Nation” broadcast moderated by Margaret Brennan: Sen. Rick Scott, Republican of FloridaDr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissionerMary Daly, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San FranciscoRep. Gregory Meeks, Democrat of New YorkTaiwanese Rep. to the U.S. Bi-khim HsiaoRep. Peter Meijer, Republican of Michigan …

Houston restaurant Bludorn is often mentioned as one of the city’s best, serving French-inspired cuisine — but you wouldn’t know it by some of the one-star reviews posted recently on Google. According to co-owner and Chef Aaron Bludorn, all the bad reviews appeared at the same time. “Someone was, you …

It’s one of the seafood industry’s most gruesome hunts. Every year, the fins of as many as 73 million sharks are sliced from the backs of the majestic sea predators, their bleeding bodies sometimes dumped back into the ocean where they are left to suffocate or die of blood loss. …