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Members of the Writers Guild of America East picket at the Warner Bros. Discovery NYC office on July 13, 2023 in New York City.

Union membership grew last year, but only 10% of U.S. workers belong to a union

In 2023, unions added 139,000 members, but the share of the U.S. workforce that's unionized declined from the year before due to even faster growth in nonunion jobs.

FILE - Jennifer Crumbley, left, and James Crumbley, right, the parents of Ethan Crumbley, a teenager accused of killing four students in a shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., appear in court for a preliminary examination on involuntary manslaughter charges in Rochester Hills, Mich., Feb. 8, 2022. Jennifer and James Crumbley can face trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state appeals court said Thursday, March 23, 2023, in a groundbreaking case of criminal responsibility for the acts of a child. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Michigan school shooter's mother to stand trial for manslaughter in 4 student deaths

Prosecutors are trying to pin criminal responsibility on Ethan Crumbley's parents in the deaths of four students at Oxford High School in 2021.

Buildings in the Manhattan skyline shrouded in smoke from Canada wildfires at sunrise in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Weds., June 7, 2023. New York was the most polluted major city in the world on Tuesday night, as smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the city in haze.

Photos: Extreme Canadian wildfire smoke shrouds parts of U.S.

Unhealthy air quality grips the East Coast reaching as far south as North and South Carolina.

Suspect in killing of 8 people near Chicago has died in Texas, police say

Police in Joliet, Ill., said Monday night that 23-year-old Romeo Nance was located by U.S. marshals near Natalia, Texas, and that after a confrontation Nance shot himself.

Michigan school shooter's mom was worried he might do 'something dumb,' friend says

Jennifer Crumbley is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of four students at Oxford High School in 2021.

FILE - University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz speaks at a news conference, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, at The Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, N.C. Michigan State University's Board of Trustees unanimously approved Guskiewicz as the next president on Friday, Dec. 8. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum, File)

Michigan State selects UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor as next president

Michigan State University's Board of Trustees has unanimously approved the next president. Kevin Guskiewicz was voted in Friday morning.

A man looks out over the Colorado River near Page, Arizona on Nov. 2, 2022. The seven states that manage the river are divided about how to account for the impacts of climate change in new plans about sharing its water.

As a deadline approaches, Colorado River states are still far apart on water sharing

Ahead of a deadline next week, the seven states that share the Colorado River have revealed competing plans for how the river should be managed in the future.

What does it take to flee Gaza? Thousands of dollars, paid to an Egyptian broker

Gaza's borders are tightly controlled and most Palestinians cannot escape the war. Those who can afford it are managing to cross into Egypt by paying thousands of dollars.

Beachgoers watch as turbulent surf pounds the coast on Thursday in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

Huge surf pounds West Coast and Hawaii, flooding some low-lying areas

A high surf warning for parts of Northern California said waves would range from 28 to 33 feet and up to 40 feet at some locations, the National Weather Service said.

Jerome Guillem, mayor of Langon, and other French mayors, farmers and wine growers block highway entrances to the town of Langon, toward the A62 highway in Gironde, France, on Jan. 29.

Protests by farmers block highways to Paris and elsewhere in France

The farmers are protesting over low wages and foreign competition, among other things. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal tried to address their grievances in parliament but protests are expected to go on.

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