The company urged Congress to protect state oversight. Its own relationship with Washington tells the more complicated story. Reuters reported on June 10 that Anthropic urged Congress not to preempt state AI laws unless it passes a federal framework at least as rigorous as the one Anthropic is proposing. The position is substantive: Anthropic released…
On a Tuesday afternoon in late June, five Cook County sheriff’s deputies and a social service worker boarded the west side branch of the CTA Green Line and began walking car to car. Justin Kaufmann reported for Axios Chicago on June 25 that he was with them — and what he witnessed was not a…
The city built its identity around knowledge work. That identity is getting more expensive to maintain. Boston’s labor market tells two different stories depending on which number you look at. Unemployment is low. Wage growth is lagging. The city has built its economic identity around the knowledge sectors — life sciences, biotech, higher education, finance,…
The degree was supposed to be the ticket. For the Class of 2026, the ticket keeps getting harder to redeem. The Class of 2026 is graduating into one of the most difficult entry-level labor markets in two decades. The unemployment rate for recent college graduates reached 5.7% in early 2026 — higher than the national…
More than 40% of rural hospitals are operating at a loss. Medicaid cuts just made the math worse. Chartis, the rural health analytics firm, published its 2026 Rural Health State of the State report in February documenting that more than 40% of all rural hospitals are operating at a loss, with 417 facilities identified as…
Korea has the highest density of industrial robots in the world, and its largest industrial union just said the bargaining process around adding more of them has broken down. South Korea runs roughly 1,000 to 1,200 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers, according to the International Federation of Robotics, and the Korean Metal Workers’ Union…
ILO Convention No. 193 passed 406 to 8. One of the eight no votes was the United States. On June 12, 2026, the International Labour Conference adopted ILO Convention No. 193, the Decent Work in the Platform Economy Convention, by a vote of 406 to 8 with 36 abstentions. It is the first binding international…
The Texas Republican Party held its biennial convention at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center last month and produced a platform that Gwen Howerton reported for Chron on June 25 includes a prohibition on transgender people serving in any school district position — teachers, substitutes, counselors, nurses, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, coaches, office staff, or…
Britain cancelled the Rwanda scheme. Then it built something that works the same way. The UK’s Rwanda deportation plan is officially dead. The Labour government cancelled it after taking office in July 2024, and on June 1, 2026, the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled in Britain’s favour when Rwanda sued for £50 million, or about…
Sunday, June 28, 2026The news tells you what happened. We explain what changed. 1. The Middle East conflict is no longer contained to U.S.-Iran bilateral space.Iran says it launched drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait after new U.S. strikes against Iranian targets, further weakening the interim diplomatic framework that was supposed to prevent…