As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected friends and neighbors.

Long before women could vote or open bank accounts on their own, long before Civil Rights laws existed, and long before ...

In 1992, Cicih Sukaesih led fellow Indonesian factory workers in a strike, part of a movement that led Nike to create its first code of conduct. She reflects on her achievements and what’s happened ...

In the dead of night on July 6, 1943, U.S. and Japanese warships collided in the narrow waters of the Solomon Islands. American cruisers and destroyers raced to intercept a reinforcement convoy bound ...

Years ago, the great conservative economist Milton Friedman said Mexican illegal immigration across the border was a good thing. These workers, he said help the American economy. Friedman said illegal ...

A pregnant woman and medical workers discuss the war-torn North African country. Walking 25 miles surrounded by armed guards, Nadra Ahmed was seven months pregnant when she was beaten in the leg by a ...

President Donald Trump made an obscene gesture with his middle finger and mouthed an expletive to a factory employee who shouted at him during a tour of a Ford plant in Michigan on Tuesday, a reaction ...

As federal agents swarm the Twin Cities, their presence has also grown in medical centers. Health care workers are pushing back. By Jazmine Ulloa Jazmine Ulloa reported from Minneapolis, Minn. The ...

SPRINGFIELD — CRRC-MA will lay off employees for two months starting March 16 because needed subway-car shells from China are still held up at ports by American customs. CRRC’s news release says 161 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — At a time of tightening immigration restrictions, the Department of Homeland Security is attempting to make it easier for visa-holding religious workers to serve their U.S.