The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
Disneyland workers from SEIU, UFCW, BCTGM local 83, and Teamsters local 494 unions protest July 3, 2018 over the lack of progress from negotiations with Disneyland Resort. Union leaders and resort officials announced a tentative agreement for a contract on July 23. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Disneyland Resort hotel workers approve a new contract with a $15-an-hour minimum wage

By Hugo Martin | Los Angeles Times • September 23, 2018

After months of demonstrations and protests, hotel workers at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim overwhelmingly approved a contract that boosts hourly salaries by at least 40 percent over two years and clears...

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg poses during a group photograph at the Supreme Court building on June 1 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

GOP congressman jokes Ruth Bader Ginsburg was groped by Abraham Lincoln

By By Lindsey McPherson | CQ-Roll Call • September 21, 2018

South Carolina Republican Rep. Ralph Norman opened an election debate Thursday by cracking a joke that attempted to play off the controversy over the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee...

Clean up work underway at Duke Energy's Sutton coal ash site, near Wilmington after Hurricane Florence. Equipment is seen on site on Sept. 19, 2018. (Kemp Burdette/Cape Fear Riverkeeper/Waterkeeper Alliance)

Duke Energy confirms new coal ash spill in North Carolina

By Will Doran | The News & Observer • September 20, 2018

Duke Energy reported over the weekend that enough coal ash had spilled near one of its Wilmington power plants to nearly fill up an Olympic-sized swimming pool — and that a second coal ash site near...

U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be attorney general on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Ron Sachs/CNP/Sipa USA/TNS)

Analysis: Primary challengers aren’t always more partisan in Congress

By Shawn Zeller | CQ-Roll Call • September 19, 2018

It's often said that conservative challenges to Republican incumbents in primary elections — the prime example being Dave Brat's victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in 2014 — have led to...

From left, Mike Haddock, 48, Justin Humphrey, 24, Katlyn Humphrey, 19, and Michelle Haddock, 45, remove possessions from the Haddocks' flooded home using a jon boat on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018 in Trenton, N.C. following Hurricane Florence. (Travis Long/Raleigh News & Observer/TNS)

Rising waters continue to frustrate rescue efforts and residents, FEMA chief says after NC tour

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske | Los Angeles Times • September 18, 2018

Rivers continued to rise out of their banks across the Carolinas on Tuesday, frustrating rescue efforts and residents hoping to return home. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Brock Long, administrator...

A view of the U.S. Capitol Building on July 25, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Evan Golub/Zuma Press/TNS)

Obscure Pentagon fund nets $2 billion, sets pork senses tingling

By John M. Donnelly | CQ-Roll Call • September 18, 2018

The Pentagon will soon have received about $2.3 billion in the last nine years — money the military never requested — for a special fund intended to help replace earmarks after Congress banned them,...

Democratic primary winner Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the darling of progressive U.S. politics, takes questions from constituents in the Parkchester section of The Bronx on August 8, 2018. (G. Ronald Lopez/Zuma Press/TNS)

Why even moderate Democrats are moving left and changing what it means to be centrist

By Alex Roarty | McClatchy Washington Bureau • September 17, 2018

Betsy Rader's political agenda includes a check-list of liberal priorities: She unequivocally supports abortion rights, believes in universal health care, talks forcefully about the importance of gay rights,...

Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. (Christy Bowe/Globe Photos/Zuma Press/TNS)

Brett Kavanaugh and accuser say they will testify about assault allegations

By Jennifer Haberkorn | Los Angelas Times • September 17, 2018

Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh's carefully planned confirmation — once seen as a sure bet — slipped into limbo Monday after he and the woman accusing him of a decades-old sexual assault offered...

The audience at the Department of Interior reacts as President Barack Obama signs the Violence against Women Act, Thursday, March 7, 2013. (Pool/Dennis Brack/Black Star/MCT)

Violence Against Women Act extension included in stopgap spending deal

By Katherine Tully-McManus | CQ-Roll Call • September 14, 2018

The Violence Against Women Act, which was set to expire Sept. 30, will be extended through Dec. 7 under a stopgap spending bill released Thursday. "Any program, authority or provision, including any pilot...

Three years after the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansion took effect, the number of Americans without health insurance fell to 28.1 million in 2016, down from 29 million in 2015, effectively closing the book on President Barack Obama's record on lowering the number of uninsured. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Household incomes hit new high, but rate of health coverage flattens

September 12, 2018

With unemployment steadily declining and more people working full time in year-round jobs, household incomes in the United States rose moderately last year, and the nation's poverty rate fell to the lowest...

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