The Best of the Week’s News 

• Kentucky coal miners say they will keep blocking coal trains until they get paid by the Blackjewel mine. The mine sent out paychecks knowing they would bounce and failed to post a legally-required bond.
   
• “Military romance scams” ensnare lonely Americans on facebook. 
   
• California bill could reform the gig economy to benefit workers.
   
• How one “outdoor cat” destroyed an entire bird sanctuary. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• The new acting secretary of labor, a former crony of Jack Abramoff, is expected to pursue an even more brutally anti-worker agenda. 
   
• Trump plans to appoint Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice, as permanent Secretary of Labor. 
   
• How the Fight for Fifteen went from a far-left project to mainstream Democratic policy. 
   
• Appleby leak shows Epstein’s cash is stashed offshore. 
   
• US is quietly opening detention “shelters” for infants and children without parents. 
   

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• In a coup for Hillman Prize-winner Julie K. Brown and for press freedom, a court agrees to release a 2000-page file on coddled sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
   
• Politics is changing, why are pundits still in the Dark Ages?
   
• The Trump administration’s lies are wearing thin with the Supreme Court. 
   
• Uber Eats expansion to Mexico plagued by injuries, deaths, and lack of compensation. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• The fight to unionize Florida’s adjunct professors 
   
• Trump administration argues that detained kids don’t need toothbrushes, soap, or a horizontal surface to sleep on.
   
• Hillman Judge Ta-Nehisi Coates rebukes Mitch McConnell at historic Juneteenth reparations hearing.
   
• Alexis Wainwright of WJAC tweets graphic video of inmates being tortured at an Ohio county jail where 9 inmates have died this year.