A truck plowed into pedestrians at an outdoor market in South Korea, killing two people and injuring 18 Thursday, officials said.
Nine people sustained serious injuries among the 18 who were hurt, the city of Bucheon’s municipal government said, noting it wasn’t immediately clear if any of the injuries were life-threatening.
More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers went on strike at 65 U.S. stores Thursday to protest a lack of progress in labor negotiations with the company.
The strike was intended to disrupt Starbucks’ Red Cup Day, which is typically one of the company’s busiest days of the year.
Starbucks Workers United said stores in 45 cities would be impacted, including New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Starbucks’ home city of Seattle.
California plans to revoke 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses given to immigrants after discovering the expiration dates went past when the drivers were legally allowed to be in the U.S., state officials said Wednesday.
The announcement follows harsh criticism from the Trump administration about California and other states granting licenses to people in the country illegally. It follows an incident when a tractor-trailer driver not authorized to be in the U.S. made an illegal u-turn and caused a crash in Florida that killed three people.
Miles Schiffer can be reached at schi9629@stthomas.edu.
