But it didn’t get this way overnight. For decades now businesses have operated under a mantra of enriching their CEOs and shareholders, keeping the majority of their employees from enjoying the success of their businesses. Companies have shifted towards an idea that success is defined by the profits given to shareholders and executives, not workers. Lawmakers have simultaneously chased the alluring promises of supply side economics by passing major tax cuts for the rich, deregulating business, and enacting union busting policies....

Last week, I spent a day in Laredo, Texas meeting with Border Patrol, where I received an update on what they have faced at the border as a result of this administration’s reckless policies. The resilience of these officers as they work day in and day out to protect their communities, the United States and migrants while being vilified by politicians and the media is hard to fathom. Given the current climate, one Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer told me agents’ primary focus when they show up to work is just to “get home safely....

The 62-year-old two-time Olympic champion was returned to his post unopposed at the governing body’s 52nd congress in Doha, Qatar. Colombia’s former 400-meter runner Ximena Restrepo was voted the first female vice president of the IAAF, joining Sergey Bubka, Geoffrey Gardner and Nawaf bin Mohammed al Saud beneath Coe. After chairing the organizing committee for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and while serving as the chairman of the British Olympic Association, Coe took on his post with the IAAF in 2015....

Mou reassures fans over Ibrahimovic future It is the second time the Swede has claimed the monthly gong, with Ibrahimovic playing a starring role in February to help United stay in contention for a top-four finish and win the EFL Cup. The Red Devils are also into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, where they’ll face Chelsea, while they have a Europa League last-16 tie to look forward to against FC Rostov....

Appearing on Monday’s episode of comedian Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, the Body Count vocalist shared the story, while discussing how he approaches politics when in foreign countries. “I never go to other countries and speak on their particular politics. That’s a sucka move to talk about them and then get on a plane and leave,” he said. “I relate it to our politics, and they usually can find the parallels in their countries....

Residents of the East Side, Chicago neighborhood were initially puzzled when they noticed “a lot of police cars” stationed outside the much-loved Route 66 Pizza shop on Indianapolis Ave. Once they realized what the commotion was all about, however, that confusion quickly turned into anger, with ICE accused of yet another “raid” targeting “hard-working people” and forcing the pizza shop to close. By Tuesday morning, the small restaurant remained closed with a sign in the window saying it would remain shut down until further notice....

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency in the city for the “historic weather event,” warning of “record breaking rain across the city, brutal flooding and dangerous conditions on our roads,” he said. At least eight died after being trapped in flooded basements in New York City, the Associated Press reported. Floods hit the city’s roads and streets hard with vehicles becoming submerged from the torrents of rain as city garbage floated on by....

“I do think [investigations] were handled properly,” Fry said talking to NewsNation on Thursday and responding to concerns expressed by the family of one of the victims that early investigations might have missed some crucial clues. “We secured the scene quickly, we called in the state police. We did our due diligence in getting the things that we needed to do to… have this be a solid case all the way through....

Looking at the facts and the law, genocide is the only way to describe what the Yazidis experienced. In the face of genocide, nations valuing human rights must not turn away. The term genocide is a 20th century creation, developed by professor Rafael Lemkin, a Pole by birth who escaped to the United States. Lemkin lost dozens of family members to the Holocaust. A renowned legal scholar, Lemkin created the word by fusing geno-, from the Greek word for race, with -cide, stemming from the Latin word for killing....

The “Boy in the Box” refers to an unknown child who was killed and had his beaten and bruised body placed in a cardboard box in a rural area in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, some 65 years ago. The boy was found on February 25, 1957, and the case remains Philadelphia’s oldest unsolved mystery. Action News reporter Sarah Bloomquist said on Twitter that Philadelphia authorities are going ahead with a press conference to announce the boy’s identity....

The latest data from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows that 65 percent of the continental U.S. is experiencing some form of drought or abnormally dry conditions. Some of the hardest-hit states include Utah, Oregon, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, which all contain regions that are undergoing “extreme drought” conditions. “This region is experiencing an exceptional drought condition, with a severity that we have not seen in the past 1,200 years,” Rick Relyea, director of the Darrin Fresh Water Institute at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, told Newsweek....

How else can you explain a team that two weeks ago jumped Baylor (which has a better resume) and this week failed to drop after a dangerously close victory over three-win Indiana — and the awful, 14-point home loss to six-loss Virginia Tech looking worse every week. “It’s important to be hitting your stride,” said Ohio State coach Urban Meyer. “I wouldn’t say we’re hitting our stride. But if you evaluate our team compared to Week 1, it’s still the most-improved team....

The former Manchester United attacker has been plagued by injuries over the last two-and-a-half years, managing just 33 Premier League appearances since the start of the 2015-16 season. Arsenal -1 13/10 v Burnley Six of them have come this season and Welbeck boasts a decent record of three goals from those limited outings, although he has also suffered two groin strains which have interrupted his season. Southgate seems determined to only pick players on merit after refusing to call up Welbeck’s team-mate Jack Wilshere for the international friendlies against Germany and Brazil, highlighting the midfielder’s lack of playing time as the reason he was overlooked....

They have a choice. They can play for respect from the officials for Cam Newton, since once again, before a national audience, he got absolutely none. Or, they can play to keep Newton safe and healthy, by sitting him the final two games, sparing him the consequences of the Falcons’ and Buccaneers’ defenses teeing off on him and going headhunting, since there clearly is no price to pay for it anymore....

The maverick Mavericks owner decided to revoke credentials to two Dallas-based ESPN reporters for the season. He initially declined to explain himself, claiming they still could buy tickets to the game. SB Nation and others reported Cuban was upset ESPN pulled Tim MacMahon away from beat reporting in favor of broader NBA coverage. The only takeaway could be that Cuban had been spoiled by a decade of success that included heavy beat coverage, even from ESPN, which for the most part only has beat reporters in larger NBA markets....

Available to fans outside of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, it will now be possible for international fans to watch all of their club’s games during the 2017-18 season. Goal has a complete guide to the new platform and how it works. WHAT IS iFOLLOW? iFollow is the name of a new streaming service run by the Football League that allows fans outside of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland to watch games live....

Here are the principal rescuers and their explanations of why they rushed to Denny’s aid, each having been somewhere else and seen the beating live on TV: (1) Lei Yuille, a nutritionist who had just come from work to her mother’s house and watched Denny’s ordeal with her brother: “He said to me, ‘We are Christians, we need to go help him.’ And I said, ‘You’re right, that’s what we need to do’....

That millions of Russian children do not know the story of Jesus is a tribute, of sorts, to some 75 years of compulsory atheism in their schools. During the communist era, the official model of morality was Lenin himself, whom Soviet teachers endowed with many of the virtues that Christians attribute to Jesus. “We were taught to believe that that Lenin was kind, loved children and sacrificed everything for the good of society,” recalls Evgenia Tikhonova, a teacher for 40 years....