U.S. Rail Strike Narrowly Averted
Rail unions negotiated a tentative agreement Thursday, narrowly avoiding a nationwide rail strike. Within the new agreement, workers will receive the largest raises they have received in more than four decades. Average rail worker salaries will reach $110,000 by 2025. In a Thursday morning speech celebrating the agreement, President Biden said the agreement “can avert any significant damage” that a shutdown of the country’s rail system would have caused.
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Governors Abbot and DeSantis Send Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, DC
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday that Republican Govs. Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in DC is a “cruel, premeditated political stunt.”
“The fact that Fox News and not the Department of Homeland Security, the city, or local (non-governmental organizations) were alerted about a plan to leave migrants, including children, on the side of a busy DC street makes clear that this is just a cruel, premeditated political stunt,” Jean-Pierre told reporters.
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China Questions Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has “questions and concerns” over Russia’s faltering invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Thursday. “We highly appreciate the balanced position of our Chinese friends in connection with the Ukrainian crisis. We understand your questions and concerns in this regard,” Putin said in an opening speech of a meeting between the two leaders. “During today’s meeting, of course, we will explain in detail our position on this issue, although we have spoken about this before.”
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