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Information about Wednesday night’s mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine is still taking shape, but officials confirmed Thursday that 18 people were killed and more than a dozen were wounded when a gunman who remained at large Thursday evening brought madness to an unsuspecting town. Should that death toll stay where it is, the massacre will be the nation’s 10th deadliest mass shooting in modern times. This is a rundown of the top 10. 1. Route 91 Harvest Music Festival — Las Vegas (2017) Sixty people were killed in an October 2017 shooting when a gunman, whose motive still remains unclear, fired a......

Days after President Joe Biden joined a picket line of striking autoworkers in Michigan in an unprecedented public display of support, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have given unemployment benefits to striking workers in California — a blow to organized labor in a state that typically embraces it. “Now is not the time to increase costs or incur this sizable debt,” said Newsom in his veto statement over the weekend. Senate Bill 799 was backed by the Writers Guild of America, which recently reached a deal to end a months-long strike, and SAG-AFTRA, the union representing thousands o......

He was called the n-word. He was turned away from a table of white students. He was told to “go back to picking cotton.” But after reporting these acts of racism to school officials in the rural town of Ottawa, Kansas, the mother of the 12-year-old bi-racial boy being targeted said her son didn’t trust adults at the school to protect him from his bullies. In fact, the mom said since the family moved to Ottawa in 2019, he’d dealt with repeated acts of racism and bullying. The Star is withholding their names for their safety. Time after time, his mother said she told school officials to address ......

MIAMI -- On the edge of the Everglades, among plant nurseries, fields of avocado trees and dragon fruit cactuses, migrant workers rest under a plastic tent, sitting at long picnic tables eating chili-rice tamales wrapped in banana leaves or carnitas with tortillas out of reusable containers. They talk about their children and they laugh at each other’s jokes. But there is one thing on everyone’s mind that nobody really wants to talk about. And when it comes up, the playful banter stops. Florida’s new immigration law, set to take effect on July 1, has undocumented workers worried — and afraid. ......

OAKLAND, California — Children as young as 13 worked illegally, female teen employees were subjected to sexually suggestive comments, and security guards contributed to violent mayhem at a Popeye’s fried-chicken restaurant in Oakland, newly filed worker complaints to state regulators claim. Popeyes said it learned Thursday morning about the worker complaints filed Wednesday with CalOSHA and the California Labor Commissioner, and immediately shut down the restaurant. “Our employer has violated almost every law put in place to protect young workers like us,” employees Johmara Romero and Karla Pa......

NEW YORK — Jesus O. was a skilled HVAC technician and business owner in Venezuela who thought his skills would easily secure him work when he came to New York last October amid a flood of migrants flowing into New York. But now, each day, he wanders the streets looking for work. “I have the experience. And I have the ability,” he said. “And there is this passion and desire to work. I’m just waiting for someone to let me work.” More than 45,000 migrants have come to New York City since last spring, straining the city’s shelter system and sparking conflict over policy and funding between New Yor......