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DETROIT — The United Auto Workers strike against General Motors is over.   The union and GM reached a four-year labor contract after a 40-day strike, which cost the company over $2 billion.  In exchange for bonuses and raises for the auto workers, the union agreed to not block GM’s plans to shut down four facilities […]

    WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence is speaking out about the NBA’s relationship with China.  During an event yesterday Washington DC, Pence said the National Basketball Association is, “acting like a wholly-owned subsidiary” of the Chinese Communist Party.  He noted that a number of the league’s top players and team owners, who frequently use their freedom […]

WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence says U.S. troops in Syria are “coming home.”  Pence spoke at a gala in Washington, DC Tuesday, and insisted that a ceasefire he helped broker between Syria and Turkey “has held.” “In the midst of all of it, our troops are coming home,” he told the gala. “That is […]

WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience in California on Monday that even after she was diagnosed for the fourth time with cancer, she never stopped working out, although she couldn’t always complete her full routine. “I do pushups,” the 86-year-old told an audience at Berkeley Law, adding that she planks, “both front and side,” […]

DALLAS — Police went door to door in parts of northern Dallas on Monday after a weekend tornado touched down, knocking out power and causing severe damage before moving on to lash parts of the Great Plains. The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado touched down around 9:30 p.m. Sunday. The twister damaged buildings, uprooted trees and snapped […]

(CNN) — NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch conducted the first all-female spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. The spacewalk officially began Friday at 7:38 a.m. EDT and lasted for seven hours and 17 minutes, ending at 2:55 p.m. EDT. The spacewalk went well, according to both astronauts, and they were even able […]

DETROIT — There are reports that General Motors and United Auto Workers have reached an agreement to end a strike.  The deal on a four-year agreement comes on day 31 of a strike that has kept tens of thousands of workers from their jobs and cost the company more than a billion dollars.  The union said […]

WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg fired back at his opponents in the 2020 race. The South Bend mayor had some heated exchanges in Tuesday night’s Democratic debate in Ohio.  In an argument about gun policy, former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke accused him of being limited by polls and focus groups, and Buttigieg told […]

  WASHINGTON — President Trump has ordered Vice President Mike Pence to visit Turkey in order to persuade the president of Turkey to call off their invasion of Kurdish lands in Syria.  Pence told reporters yesterday that Trump has spoken with President Erdoğan (AIR-doo-WAHN) asking him for an immediate cease-fire and for the Turks to […]

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling for a vote this week on President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.  The New York Democrat said yesterday he believes Trump’s decision could put the United States at risk of a terror attack.  Schumer says his proposed resolution would be bipartisan and have a plan to […]