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Auto workers in Alabama are voting on joining a union. Here's what you need to know

Workers at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama start voting this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. Last month, Volkswagen workers in Tennessee voted overwhelmingly to unionize.

Inside a warehouse in Everett, Wash. the commercial fusion company Helion is building a next-generation device that it believes can revolutionize the electricity business.

Companies say they're closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work?

For decades, government scientists have toiled away trying to make nuclear fusion work. Will commercial companies sprint to the finish?

For this student newly arrived from India, Thanksgiving came to feel like home

She came to the U.S. for grad school. She was lonely. Then came an invitation for Thanksgiving — no turkey (strictly vegan) but a spirit that touched her soul. And her mango lassi was a hit!

Jerry Smith moved to Cape Coral from New Jersey because, "it was my vision of what I wanted the Florida lifestyle to be like.”

Hurricane Ian walloped Cape Coral, Fla. Two years later housing costs have spiked

Nearly two years after Hurricane Ian devastated Southwest Florida, for many, the dream of living in paradise is becoming unaffordable. Making the situation worse, because of lax permitting and development following the hurricane, FEMA is hiking the cost of flood insurance in vulnerable coastal communities like Cape Coral.

Graduate students and demonstrators at the University of Texas at Austin protest the war in Gaza after walking out of commencement at the DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium on May 11, 2024 in Austin.

Student protests caused mostly minor disruptions at several graduation ceremonies

From California to North Carolina, students staged chants and walkouts over the weekend in protest of Israel's ongoing military offensive in Gaza.

In severe pain and uncertain of its cause, Tieqiao Zhang of Dallas says he didn’t want to wait for an appointment with his regular doctor, but he also wasn’t sure if he needed emergency care. He visited a clinic on the campus of Dallas’ largest public hospital — and was charged 10 times what he expected.

It's called an urgent care emergency center — but which is it?

Suffering stomach pain, a Dallas man visited his local urgent care clinic — or so he thought, until he got a bill 10 times what he'd expected.

ExxonMobil is suing investors who want faster climate action

The oil and gas giant is suing investor groups that want it to slash climate pollution. Interest groups on both sides of the case say it could lead to more lawsuits against activist investors.

Lisa Maguire, principal at Garden Road Elementary School, gives a student a high-five on the first day of school in the Poway Unified District, Poway, Calif., August 16, 2023.

San Diego returns to school

San Diego students across the county are returning to the classroom. What changes can students and their families expect this year?

South Bay Summer Festival

The Partnerships 4 Success program led by the Institute for Public Strategies will be hosting the South Bay Summer Festival on Saturday, August 5 at Montgomery Waller Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This will be a free event featuring a Teen Corner, school supply distribution, yoga, zumba, live music and more. There will be FREE breakfast and lunch for the first 200 community members. Contact p4s@publicstrategies for more information.

Senior leaders of the ruling BJP party hold an election campaign rally at a playground outside Itanagar, the capital of Arunachal Pradesh, in the second week of April. Voting took place in the remote northeastern Indian state on April 19.

In a remote Indian state, trading cash and gifts for votes is an open secret

India's election commission says bribery is one of the biggest challenges to free and fair elections. In tiny Arunachal Pradesh, some voters receive the equivalent of up to a year's average earnings.

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