IN BRIEF
Nineteen demonstrators were taken away by police in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh after marchers blocked streets while advocating for higher wages for fast-food restaurants.
Police arrested 11 in Philadelphia in Thursday's protest that was part of a national campaign advocating $15-an-hour wage and right to unionize.
Eight were arrested in Pittsburgh. Nearly 200 protesters marched up Penn Avenue and stopped outside a McDonald's and chanted “hold your burgers, hold your fries, make my wages supersized.”
RENO, Nev. — Reno, Nev., is about to get a new neighbor: the biggest lithium battery factory in the world that Nevada's governor says will create more than 22,000 jobs and pump $100 billion into the state's economy in 20 years.Tesla declared Nevada the winner of a high-stakes battle with four other states for the $5 billion “gigafactory” to make batteries for Tesla's next line of cheaper electric cars.
