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A 16-year-old and a 17-year-old were operating dangerous meat processing equipment, in violation of child labor laws, at a Minnesota factory run by national food manufacturer Monogram Food Solutions LLC, according to the US Department of Labor. .usThe Labor Department fined Monogram $30,276 for employing the two minors at the Chandler factory, which makes meat sandwiches and refrigerated hot dogs.The federal investigation was launched based on leads obtained during a previous federal investigation into child labor that found more than 100 minors cleaning slaughterhouses for a different company in the Midwest, according to a Labor Department spokesperson. That company said…

WASHINGTON — A forthcoming book by a former Trump administration adviser describes an episode in which officials worried that then-President Donald Trump was arrogant in his handling of classified information while speaking to reporters, according to a copy obtained. by NBC News.Miles Taylor, who was a top adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, writes about the 2018 episode in a book to be published this month. As the sitting president at the time, Trump had broad powers to declassify information. However, the incident Taylor describes suggests that his aides still believed he needed to be more careful with state…

NEW DELHI — India's federal crime agency said Friday it has arrested three railway officials in connection with one of the country's deadliest train accidents, which killed more than 290 people last month.The arrested men were charged with manslaughter without murder and destruction of evidence, the Central Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. He identified them as two signal engineers and a technician and said the investigation is ongoing.The June train accident in the eastern state of Odisha occurred when a packed passenger train mistakenly diverted onto an adjacent loop line where it collided with a parked freight train…

People with disabilities have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the strong post-pandemic rebound in the labor market.And on Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics added another data point to this trend.Among that community, the number of people employed rose by about 175,000 in June to 7.6 million, the BLS said, higher than at any time since June 2008, the first year for which data is available.As a percentage, the employment-to-population ratio for disabled people is also now at an all-time high of 22.4%."It continues to grow, and it seems to get better every month," said Allison Chase, president and…