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Protesters hold signs in solidarity with the American Federation of Government Employees of District 14 at a rally in support of federal workers at the Office of Personnel Management in Washington

Federal judge halts Trump’s order to end collective bargaining rights for many federal workers

By Tami Luhby and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to terminate the collective bargaining rights for more than a million federal employees. Judge James Donato of the US District Court in San Francisco granted the preliminary injunction requested by a coalition of unions whose

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Switzerland’s ebbing glaciers show a new, strange phenomenon: holes reminiscent of Swiss cheese

By FANNY BRODERSEN, MATTHIAS SCHRADER and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (AP) — Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland’s vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes. Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring group GLAMOS offered a glimpse of the Rhone Glacier, which feeds the eponymous river that flows

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POWs, abductees, defectors and separated families are the legacy of the Korean War

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press GIMPO, South Korea (AP) — Prisoners of war held for decades after the fighting stopped. Civilian abductees. Defectors. Separated families. They are Koreans who symbolize the decades of division and bitter animosities between North and South Korea, which have been split by a heavily fortified border since

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Alvin Bragg, Manhattan prosecutor who took on Trump, wins Democratic primary in bid for second term

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor who oversaw the historic hush-money case against President Donald Trump, won Tuesday’s Democratic primary as he seeks reelection. Bragg defeated Patrick Timmins — a litigator, law professor and former Bronx assistant district attorney — to advance to November’s general

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