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Jorge “El Cos” Costilla

A Mexican national who headed the Gulf Cartel from 2003 to 2012 was sentenced Thursday to life in prison and ordered to pay a $5 million forfeiture after pleading guilty in a U.S. court to drug smuggling conspiracy. A federal judge in Brownsville, Texas, sentenced Jorge “El Cos” Costilla-Sanchez, 51, …

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“A big win for America”: Biden announces tentative deal to avert national rail strike

President Biden announced early Thursday morning that days of negotiations at the U.S. Department of Labor to avert a national rail strike, with potentially major implications for the economy, had yielded a deal.  In a statement, Mr. Biden said the “tentative agreement” between the railroads and rail workers’ unions was …

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Most U.S. workers say their pay isn’t keeping up with inflation

Most U.S. workers say they are struggling to cover everyday expenses as stubbornly high inflation gobbles up pay gains, a new survey shows. Even as wage growth rose to its highest in years during the pandemic, employees say their earnings aren’t keeping pace with the highest inflation in decades. Indeed, …

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