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Festivals were canceled Saturday, restaurants closed and jazz clubs known for playing into the early hours of the morning shuttered their doors ahead of ahead of the storm.

Accusations of sexual harassment cost Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood entertainment mogul, a close adviser on Saturday and may have lost his company a high-profile series of books.

Police officers were cleared after killing a black man in Salt Lake City in August, but a new video raises questions about their explanation.

World Day for Decent Work: Immigrant Protections Essential for Achieving Decent Work

Oct. 7 marks the 10th annual World Day for Decent Work, a day when unions across the globe mobilize for decent work. In local events, workers highlight issues of corporate greed, low wages, inequality and injustice. In the United States, immigrant workers and communities are under attack as the Donald Trump administration threatens some of the few protections available to immigrants in vulnerable circumstances. This undermines decent work and the ability of all working people to come together to assert their rights on the job.

The Trump administration has announced that it will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which will strip away work authorization from nearly 800,000 productive members of our society. Further, the administration is currently assessing if it will recertify Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a designation that protects some 330,000 people who fled war, natural disaster and instability and allows them the opportunity to rebuild their lives in the U.S. Ten countries in all currently have TPS designation: El...