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(LOS ANGELES) -- The workers union representing Starbucks baristas across the country announced members in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle will go on strike in the days leading up to Christmas.Workers United, which has unionized more than 525 U.S. Starbucks locations, said in a press release Thursday that unfair labor practices and stalled negotiations with the company are the catalyst behind the holiday season strike.The union says five days of […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- An event celebrating the top restaurants in Los Angeles left at least 80 people sickened with norovirus due to an outbreak linked to raw oysters, LA County's Department of Public Health confirmed to ABC News.The outbreak stemmed from an event at the Hollywood Palladium celebrating the Los Angeles Times' list of the 101 best restaurants on Dec. 3, according to the agency.Norovirus is a very contagious virus […]

Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- U.S. immigration authorities in 2024 removed the largest number of people in the country illegally in a decade, according to a new report.In fiscal year 2024, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed 271,484 noncitizens -- the highest number since 2014, according to the agency's year-end report, released Thursday.According to the report, of those removed from the country:88,763 had charges or convictions for criminal […]

(CARISBAD, Calif.) -- A judge granted a gun violence protective order against a Carlsbad, California, man who authorities allege was communicating with the Abundant Life Christian School shooting suspect.Carlsbad police filed the application for a gun violence emergency protective order against Alexander Charles Paffendorf in San Diego County Superior Court on Tuesday. FBI agents "stopped and detained" him after they allege "he was discovered plotting a mass shooting" with Natalie "Samantha" […]

A judge has denied a motion to dismiss charges in the Uvalde, Texas, criminal case stemming from the 2022 mass shooting and has set a tentative trial date.Former Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo, who was the on-site commander at Robb Elementary School on the day of the shooting, and former school officer Adrian Gonzales appeared in court for a joint pretrial hearing on Thursday.Arredondo faces 10 counts of child […]

Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has reached a settlement with Amazon over allegations of hazardous workplace conditions, ABC News first reported Thursday. The settlement requires that Amazon adopt "corporate-wide ergonomic measures" to reduce the risk of injuries to workers.The 10 facilities cited in the settlement, located in New York, Florida, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Illinois and New Jersey, all had a […]

(WEST TEXAS, Texas) -- Rancher Laura Briggs rises early to care for the livestock scattered across her homestead on the arid plains of West Texas. Briggs and her husband saved up for years to purchase the land and build their family’s dream home near the Pecos River.“It was a lifestyle choice to raise our kids rurally in the hopes that they would appreciate nature and where their food comes from […]

(NEW YORK) -- Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is charged in a four-count federal criminal complaint with stalking, murder through the use of a firearm and a firearms offense involving a silencer.He waived extradition on Thursday morning and was transported via plane and helicopter from Pennsylvania to New York.Mangione is expected to make his initial appearance in federal court in lower Manhattan Thursday afternoon.A […]

(NEW YORK) -- Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the former chief adviser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, surrendered at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on Thursday morning to face criminal charges.The exact charges against her are expected to to be announced later Thursday.Lewis-Martin resigned from her position on Sunday.The case against her stems from an ongoing investigation by the district attorney’s office and the city’s Department of Investigation, sources familiar with […]