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ST. CHARLES COUNTY — As union workers earn $250 a week in strike pay picketing the Wentzville auto plant for better wages and benefits, a St. Charles man is defending himself against claims that he and other union bigwigs used hundreds of thousands of dollars in union funds for lavish, booze-soaked resort stays and the purchase …

Hundreds of Apple workers across Europe who were employed to check Siri recordings for errors have lost their jobs after the company announced it was suspending the programme earlier this month. More than 300 employees have had their contracts ended in the company’s Cork facility alone, according to former employees, with more sent home from …

Hundreds of people showed up Friday for the memorial service for El Paso shooting victim Margie Reckard. Reckard’s husband, Antonio Basco, had invited the community to attend, saying he had no family in the area and did not want to be alone. Perches Funeral Homes told CBS El Paso affiliate KDBC that it has gotten …

EL PASO — Just about every morning for the past two weeks, Antonio Basco has risen before dawn to buy as many floral bouquets as he can fit in his car and carried them to a makeshift memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in El Paso. He places the flowers one by one …

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided seven Mississippi food processing facilities and arrested around 680 undocumented immigrants. The operation was carried out by ICE Wednesday in coordination with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi. Mike Hurst, the U.S. attorney for the district, said in the operation was of historic proportions …

The Boy Scouts of America are continuing to cover-up a “pedophilia epidemic within their organization,” a group of lawyers alleged Tuesday in a new lawsuit. The Abused in Scouting lawyers said they’ve identified 350 previously unknown scoutmasters and volunteers who allegedly preyed on boys — and whose names were not known to law enforcement or …

More than 200 landlords from across Scotland have breached a law designed to protect the deposits of tenants in the last 18 months, according to research. Legislation introduced in 2012 requires landlords who take a deposit from a tenant to lodge the deposit with one of three government-approved schemes within 30 working days of the …

Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing their homes in Mali, where deadly attacks on villages are destabilising an already critical situation in the country’s centre. More than 200,000 people have fled since the start of the year, almost six times the number that were displaced in the same period last year, according to the …

One of the largest school districts in Mississippi is losing more than 200 teachers over the summer because they did not fulfill the requirements of an alternative license program — a route to qualification many states and schools have turned to as the country faces a major teacher shortage. Jackson Public School District, which serves …

Joshua Wong walked free Monday after serving one month of a two month sentence related to protests in 2014. “It’s really good timing to join the fight for freedom and democracy,” he told CNN after his release. “Five years ago after the end of the Umbrella Movement, we claimed we would be back. Yesterday 2 …