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Fuel prices at record Labor Day high in US thanks to Iran war and refinery issues

It's never been more expensive in the U. S. to fill up the tank and take one last summer trip over the Labor Day weekend. The average price of regular gas was $4. 14 a gallon heading into the holiday, nearly a dollar higher than last year and well above the Labor Day weekend record of $3. 82 from 2012, according to AAA motor club. Nicole Collins planned to head from Philadelphia to South Carolina to visit friends, but she said her family has spent most of the summer close to home and not their...

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Midterm elections head into the home stretch as candidates hit Labor Day events

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Troy Jackson was a longtime labor activist and logger before he unexpectedly became the Democratic nominee for U. S. Senate in Maine. On Monday, he returned to a union hall to tell workers they need to go to the polls this fall — to raise the minimum wage, expand family medical leave and show support for one another. “Labor Day has never been just another holiday,” Jackson told several hundred union members at a Southern Maine Labor Council event Monday in here I...

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Indonesia keeps several airports closed though volcanic eruption is easing

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia kept several airports closed and shifted schools to remote learning Monday though the volcanic eruption that has halted 2,300 flights and coated areas with ash was subsiding. The continuous, 25-hour eruption of Anak Krakatau that produced a fountain of lava and a boom heard 700 kilometers (435 miles) away ended Sunday, the country's Geological Agency said. But it remained active Monday with moderate, intermittent eruptions, dark ash emissions and small, in...

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