A strike by over 49,000 United Auto workers against General Motors could have been averted had the company made its latest offer sooner, the union's top negotiator said in a letter to the company. In the letter dated Sunday, UAW Vice President Terry Dittes told ...
UAW says its 49,000 members at GM plants will go on strike after contract talks collapse
The United Auto Workers union announced that its roughly 49,000 members at General Motors plants in the U.S. will go on strike Sunday night because contract negotiations with the automaker had broken down. The decision came after about 200 plant-level union leaders voted unanimously in ...
Cargo plane crashes in fiery wreck near Ohio Turnpike, killing only two aboard
A cargo plane crashed into a truck repair lot just short of the runway at an Ohio airport, killing both people aboard the aircraft Wednesday and narrowly missing a major highway, authorities said. The fiery wreck burned about a half-dozen unoccupied semitrailers, but no one ...
Ohio man, 20, pleads not guilty in Jewish center video threat
A 20-year-old man pleaded not guilty Monday to threatening a Jewish community center in a video that authorities say showed him shooting a semi-automatic rifle. A judge near Youngstown set bond at $250,000 for James Reardon, ordered a mental health evaluation and told him to ...
U.S. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris offers plan to curb domestic terrorism and gun sales
Kamala Harris laid out a gun control plan Wednesday that focuses on domestic terrorism, proposing action to add online gun sellers to background check requirements and expand the mission of the National Counterterrorism Center to include domestic terrorism. If elected, Harris said she would take ...
Ex-aide Anthony Scaramucci says he won't vote for Trump and GOP needs new face
Anthony Scaramucci, who only lasted as Donald Trump's communications director for 11 days, said he won't support the president's re-election and suggested the Republican Party consider a different 2020 nominee. "At this time I cannot support his re-election and we need to think about someone ...
NRA slams U.S. presidential candidates after shootings, warning against better background checks
The National Rifle Association accused U.S. presidential candidates on Thursday of trying to politicize the deadly mass shootings in Ohio and Texas, warning against enhanced background checks for gun buyers a day after Republican President Donald Trump embraced the idea. "Unfortunately, aspiring presidential candidates immediately ...
Trump blasted as pressure mounts for gun controls; shooter's mom had raised concerns
Pressure built on the U.S. Congress to pass tough gun control legislation Thursday as the mother of the man arrested for the slaughter of 22 people in El Paso, Texas, said she had called police out of concern he had a military-style weapon. But President ...
Aiming to play the traditional role of healer during national tragedy, President Donald Trump paid visits Wednesday to cities reeling from mass shootings that left 31 dead and dozens more wounded. But his divisive words preceded him, large protests greeted him and biting political ...
U.S. President Donald Trump contended Wednesday there was no political support to implement tough controls on highly lethal assault weapons that were used in three mass shootings in the past two weeks. Trump told reporters that he and leaders in Congress support legislation to prevent ...
President Donald Trump on Monday proposed tighter monitoring of the internet, mental health reform and wider use of the death penalty in response to mass shootings over the weekend that killed 31 people in Texas and Ohio. Republican Trump, who has been criticized by Democrats ...
Single murder charge filed against Texas shooting suspect, with case treated as domestic terrorism
A single capital murder charge was filed on Sunday against the man accused of killing 20 people and wounding more than two dozen others at a Walmart store in El Paso, a mass shooting authorities are viewing as a case of domestic terrorism. Texas Gov. ...
