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Hotel workers picket outside the Westin St. Francis Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy)

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Labor Day hotel strikes reflect the frustrations of a workforce largely made up of women of color
By DEE-ANN DURBIN - AP Business Writer
Mon,09/02/24-10:17AM , 99 Reads
More than 10,000 workers at 25 hotels across the U.S. were on strike Monday after choosing Labor Day weekend to amplify their demands for higher pay, fairer workloads and the reversal of COVID-era cuts.
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A woman buys eggs at a Walmart Superstore in Secaucus, New Jersey, July 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

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The Fed welcomes a 'soft landing' even if many Americans don't feel like cheering
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER - AP Economics Writer
Mon,09/02/24-8:54AM , 74 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Jerome Powell delivered a high-profile speech last month, the Federal Reserve chair came the closest he ever had to declaring that the inflation surge that gripped the nation for three painful y
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This image released on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, shows the bow of the Titanic with a large section of the deck railing now missing photographed this summer by a company with salvage rights to the wreck site on its first expedition there in many years. (RMS Titanic Inc. via AP)

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Titanic expedition yields lost bronze statue, high-resolution photos and other discoveries
By PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press
Mon,09/02/24-8:03AM , 130 Reads
A bronze statue from the Titanic — not seen in decades and feared to be lost for good — is among the discoveries made by the company with salvage rights to the wreck site on its first expedition there in many years.
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Today in History: September 14, Roosevelt becomes youngest US president
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mon,09/02/24-6:24AM , 44 Reads
Today in History

Today is Saturday, Sept. 14, the 258th day of 2024. There are 108 days left in the year.

Today in history:
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