January 8 News Update

Ice Loss and the Polar Vortex: How a Warming Arctic Fuels Cold Snaps
How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation Machine
Texans fear link between quakes and fracking waste
Deal Is Made for Road Through Alaska Wildlife Refuge *

Worker safety experts: Court ruling on silica dust limits is a 'huge victory'
The Free Market Made Us Do It!
Anti-union effort in Missouri nets $750,000 from Greitens-linked group
Age-bias leaves older workers out of the recovery
Independent Contractor Status Still Under Attack
Local 1161 Unifies Members, Wins Unprecedented Wage Increases
Local 170 Fights for Rural Healthcare, Jobs
U.S jobless rate lowest since start of Great Recession
The greatest radicalisation since 1979 as Iran explodes
Anticapitalistas hold second congress
Class, race, and us wealth inequality
As Hollywood Celebrates, a Rousing Call for a ‘New Day’ *
Judge Faults U.S. for Holding Immigrant Defendants Freed on Bail *
BBC News Editor Quits Her Post to Protest Gender Pay Gap *

Stories from the New York Times will be followed with a *. The Times pay wall policy allows free access to only about ten articles a month.