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Tens of thousands of workers nationwide walked off the job Monday in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, hoping to draw closer scrutiny to the income inequality and systemic racism that organizers say have become more entrenched during the coronavirus pandemic.The “Strike for Black Lives,” as leaders have dubbed the campaign, featured workers from…

New York (CNN Business)Thousands of essential workers were set to walk off the job Monday to demand corporations raise wages, provide health care and paid sick leave, and grant employees the right to…

Thousands of beachgoers began flocking to the shores Friday to kick off the Fourth of July weekend despite a nationwide resurgence in coronavirus cases that has prompted holiday beach closures in some of the hardest-hit areas and other restrictions to prevent more infections.In Chicago, beaches are officially closed through the weekend but Foster Beach was packed as…

Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside an Aurora, Colorado, municipal building Saturday demanding systemic change and justice in the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died last year after police applied a chokehold.Saturday's demonstrations organized by the Denver chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation began with a march and rally followed…

CLOSE People are flocking to South Carolina's beaches for vacation after being cooped up by COVID-19 for months. But the coronavirus is taking no vacation. The state now has the fourth-highest new infection rate in the nation. (June 23) AP DomesticThree beach towns on England's southern coast declared a "major incident" Thursday after thousands defied coronavirus social-distancing rules…