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US lawmakers step up antitrust probe into Ivy League university pricing

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内容摘要:From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.

From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.

At Golden Lotus Market, you can pick up Vietnamese instant coffee and a cereal drink from Myanmar. A flyer taped to the store’s entrance and written in English, Spanish and Burmese announces a new youth sports league: “Do you like to play baseball?”“You meet all walks of life here,” said Ricardo Gutierrez, who was raised in Cactus. “I have Burmese friends, Cubans, Colombians, everyone.”

US lawmakers step up antitrust probe into Ivy League university pricing

Sometimes, when the wind is blowing, the acrid smell of the slaughterhouse signals the town’s biggest employer. The meatpacking facility with more than 3,700 workers is owned by JBS, the world’s largest beef producer.The U.S. meatpacking industry has long relied on immigrants fleeing poverty and violence around the world. Texas - the nation’s leading cattle producer - is home to many of them. But with Trump’s immigration crackdowns, workers are facing uncertainty (AP video: Obed Lamy)The loss of immigrant labor would be a blow to the industry.

US lawmakers step up antitrust probe into Ivy League university pricing

“We’re going to be back in this situation of constant turnover,” said Mark Lauritsen, who runs the meatpacking division for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents thousands of Panhandle workers. “That’s assuming you have labor to replace the labor we’re losing.”Nearly half of workers in the meatpacking industry are thought to be foreign-born. Immigrants have long found work in slaughterhouses, back to at least the late 1800s when multitudes of Europeans — Lithuanians, Sicilians, Russian Jews and others — filled Chicago’s Packingtown neighborhood.

US lawmakers step up antitrust probe into Ivy League university pricing

The Panhandle plants were originally dominated by Mexicans and Central Americans. They gave way to waves of people fleeing poverty and violence around the world, from

After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a massive operation at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in 2006 and detained hundreds of workers, the Cactus slaughterhouse, now owned by JBS, increasingly hired refugees and asylum-seekers with legal permission to live and work in the U.S.“The Day of the Jackal” updates

1973 movie, starring Edward Fox as the cravat-wearing killer hired to kill the French president.Redmayne’s version inherits the gentlemanly style of Fox, living a life of

funded by getting away with murder through ingenious devices, clever disguises and flawless planning. Bianca is the intelligence officer and arms expert who will stop at nothing to find him, much to the discomfort of her co-workers and family.Lynch and Redmayne are also producers on the show, which is airing on Sky in the U.K. and debuts Thursday on Peacock. They didn’t spend much time together on set, but saw each other in makeup, at the gym and are reunited for this interview with The Associated Press.

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