The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Trucker blows whistle on fracking waste, revealing a radioactive secret. 
   
• Harvard professors unveil a bold new plan for labor rights. 
   
• Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone, new report alleges. Intimate photos of Bezos later appeared in the Trump-allied National Enquirer. 
   
• Trump administration threatens to cut off federal funds to California over law that requires health insurers to cover abortions. 
   
• How working for immigrant labor rights helped a young man understand his own mother.

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• 150 million Indians went on strike to protest a law that would gut workplace democracy.
   
• Hong Kong workers flock to unions to assert their rights, protest the state. 
   
• Raising the minimum wage could reduce the suicide rate, new study suggests. 
   
• Polly wanna cracker? To Polly unto her need. 
   
• Guns, Trump, Jr., and the right wing’s fixation on the Crusades. 
   
• Womp-womp: Trump’s investigation into Hillary Clinton fizzles.