The number of Americans applying for unemployment fell last week, police in Spain detonated a suspicious envelope discovered at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid and the U.S. House moved to avert a rail strike by passing a bill binding companies and unions to a proposed settlement from September. Annabel Lyons has today’s News in :90.
President Joe Biden asked congress to intervene in contract talks ahead of a potential railroad strike, Houston officials lifted an order calling for residents to boil their water and the University of St. Thomas had its annual tree lighting ceremony. Madeline Mussay has today’s News in :90.
One of the biggest rail unions rejected a deal Monday and raised the risk of a national rail strike, hundreds gathered in a vigil in a Colorado Springs park to honor those killed and wounded during Saturday’s attack and Ukraine could face rolling blackouts through March. Sebastian Yang has today’s News in :90.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rail companies and their workers reached a tentative agreement Thursday to avert a nationwide strike that could have shut down the nation’s freight trains and devastated the economy less than two months before the midterm elections.
