The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Workers have to be paid for standing in security lines, California Supreme Court rules. 
   
• No middle name? No visa! The Trump’s new dirty trick to exclude immigrants. 
   
• What happens to workers when two organic grocery stores implode? The latest from Sara DiNatale, participant in Hillman’s Reporting the U.S. Workplace program.
   
• Trump’s budget strips all funding from Stars and Stripes, the editorially independent newspaper of the U.S. military. 
   
• Even short-term foster stays can be brutal for kids.

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Instacart workers in Chicago win historic vote to unionize! 
   
• Protecting the Right to Organize Act passes the House, but the senate refuses to take it up this session. 
   
• “A Fucking Disaster that is Designed to Fail”: How Trump sabotaged the immigration courts 
   
• Rep. Greg Gianforte slanders grizzly bears. 

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.