Americans already bracing themselves for the strain of forking over more money for their Thanksgiving feasts are now being told to be ready to make substitutions. The reason? Supply-chain headaches could make it hard to find everything on your grocery list. Stocks of food and other household basics are less …

Buffalo is the second-biggest city in New York. It’s the third-poorest city in the nation. It could soon be the first major American city in six decades to elect a socialist as mayor. And now, Buffalo is a flashpoint for the national divides in the Democratic Party. “This race has …

Workers hoping to unionize Starbucks stores in the U.S. have won a preliminary victory before the National Labor Relations Board. Workers at three Starbucks coffee shops in the Buffalo area filed petitions in August with the NLRB asking for a vote on union representation. Employees at the Starbucks stores told the New York Times in …

As Democrats cut President Joe Biden’s social spending package from $3.5 trillion to nearly $2 trillion, they’re also working out how to raise the revenue to pay for it. Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s opposition to raising corporate taxes and taxes on the wealthiest Americans, as the Biden administration had proposed, …

One person was killed and another was wounded after Alec Baldwin’s prop firearm discharged on the set of the movie “Rust” on Thursday, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office. Baldwin is starring in and co-producing the Western film. Alec Baldwin calls fatal movie set shooting a “tragic accident” …

On February 20, 2003, 100 people were killed and more than 200 were injured when The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, burned to the ground. It was one of the deadliest club fires in American history. Three people were charged, including the club owners Jeff and Michael Derderian, …

Amazon plans to hire 150,000 seasonal workers as the biggest online retailer readies to keep up with demand during the holiday shopping season. That’s a substantially bigger holiday hiring target than last year, when the company said it would bring in 100,000 temporary employees to help store, pack and ship …

President Biden told progressive House Democrats during a virtual meeting Monday that the price tag for the $3.5 trillion social safety net bill would need to come down, and he gave them a range between $1.9 and $2.2 trillion, according to sources familiar with the discussion.  The White House believes …

Montezuma, Iowa — Investigators searching for an Iowa boy who vanished in May days before his 11th birthday said Thursday they have found human remains matching his description in a nearby cornfield. The remains were discovered by a farmer working in a field a few miles outside of Montezuma, where …

Moderate Democrats Senator Joe Manchin and Senator Kyrsten Sinema held separate meetings with President Biden at the White House Tuesday, as the White House and most Democrats push an up-to $3.5 trillion bill to expand the social safety net.  Mr. Biden’s first-term domestic agenda is packed into the massive bill, …