## All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are unionized, defying the national trend

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — When Susana Pacheco accepted a housekeeping job 16 years ago at a casino on the Las Vegas Strip, she believed it was a step toward stability for her and her 2-year-old daughter.

The historic deals finalized late last year mark a major turning point: For the first time in the Culinary Union's 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

Backed by 60,000 members, most of them in Las Vegas, it is the largest labor union in Nevada.

The union's success on the Strip is a notable exception in a national landscape where union membership overall is declining.

He said the consolidation of casinos on the Las Vegas Strip mirrors the dominance of the Big Three automakers in Detroit.

A few powerful companies — MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment and Wynn Resorts — now control most of the dozens of casinos along Las Vegas Boulevard.

Ted Pappageorge, the union's secretary-treasurer and lead negotiator, said the union calls this the "Las Vegas dream.". »

### Tarot TikToker must pay $10M to professor she accused in Moscow murder...

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Later that year, a jury awarded $4 million in damages to a coffee shop owner in a longstanding dispute with Boise State University.

“The murders of the four students on November 13, 2022, was the darkest chapter in our university’s history,” Scofield added.

Bryan Kohberger, a Ph.D. student at Washington State University in nearby Pullman at the time of the murders in Moscow, was arrested in late December 2022. »

### Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

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Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

More than 1,000 companies have also sued the U.S. government for what they say is the illegal implementation of these tariffs.

The timing of the tariffs was particularly bad for Nintendo, which was gearing up to release its Nintendo Switch 2 console when they were announced. »

### Trump wants to overthrow Cuban regime ‘in a couple of weeks’

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President Trump has threatened to overthrow the communist government in Cuba but said he wanted to wait “a couple of weeks” after military interventions in Venezuela and Iran.

Blackouts and shortages are battering residents in the capital Havana JASON P HOWE.

At a White House ceremony for Inter Miami, the Major League Soccer champions, Trump said Cuban-Americans would soon be “celebrating” the fall of communism in Cuba. »

### Released FBI Interview Includes Uncorroborated Assault Allegation Against Trump: 'Let Me Teach You How Little Girls Are Supposed to Be'

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The allegations are uncorroborated, and the FBI summaries do not indicate that agents were able to verify the claims, as the Miami Herald reported.

The newly released reports, known as FBI 302s, were follow-up interviews conducted between August and October 2019 during the federal investigation into Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

According to the FBI summary, she recalled Trump telling her, "Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.". »

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