Union workers booed Republican Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder during a celebration for the 2012 Ford Focus at the Michigan Assembly Plant.
"Snyder has taken heat from organized labor in recent weeks over plans to tax pensions and his support for a new law allowing state-appointed emergency financial managers to void public union contracts deemed unaffordable for struggling municipalities or school districts," Mlive.com noted.
This video is from WXYZ, broadcast March 17, 2011.
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A Turkish court trying 26 Saudi suspects in absentia for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Thursday refused to admit a US report blaming the kingdom's crown prince for the killing.
An Istanbul court is trying two close former aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a case that has gained added attention after the delayed release last week of the declassified US report.
Queen Elizabeth II's 99-year-old husband Prince Philip has undergone a successful heart procedure, Buckingham Palace said Thursday after he was transferred to a cardiac unit in London.
Royal officials said the Duke of Edinburgh, as he is formally known, "underwent a successful procedure for a pre-existing heart condition at St Bartholomew's Hospital" on Wednesday.
Qanon followers have become convinced that Washington, D.C., has been "dissolved" ahead of the purported re-inauguration of former president Donald Trump.
Some conspiracy theorists believe the former president will be restored to power Thursday, on the March 4 date that had been Inauguration Day until the 20th Amendment was passed in 1933 and established that date as Jan. 20, and they're pointing to the absence of "D.C." on Google and Apple maps to support their clams, reported Newsweek.
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