Labor militancy erupts in New York in runup to the holidays
Amazon and airline workers on both ends of the borough of Queens are out on the picket lines.
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The death of the Soviet Union: Our Moscow correspondent reports in 1991
On Dec. 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union, and the red hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. The next day, Dec. 26, the USSR officially ceased to exist.
