Environmental groups are condemning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid and his environmental policy in new efforts on Friday, portraying him as a candidate who will increase the chances former President Donald Trump is reelected. The Natural Resources Defense Council, a climate advocacy group where Kennedy previously served as senior…

A jar of rich strawberry jam is a welcome gift, especially at the tag end of strawberry season, though that tried and true harbinger of spring is, apparently, endless in California. Nevertheless, the fifty — strategically professionally placed and presumably well-curated — friends of Meghan Markle’s who received the stately…

The United Auto Workers union won a critical vote at a plant in Tenessee. After a massive strike last year, the union set out to organize more factories that aren’t represented, including Tesla. The union’s white whale is Tesla, workers of which have never been represented by a union.  Volkswagen workers in…

By Nora Eckert CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (Reuters) -Workers at Volkswagen (ETR:)’s Tennessee plant have voted to join the United Auto Workers, in a seismic victory for the union as it drives beyond its Detroit base into the U.S. South and West. A majority of eligible workers cast ballots in favor of…

Hourly workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee overwhelming voted to join the United Auto Workers late Friday, a major breakthrough in the union’s effort to organize workers at plants nationwide. Shortly after 11 pm ET on Friday the National Labor Relations Board, the federal body that oversees such votes,…