The Wall Street Journal reports on how the Starbucks union vote is about much more than Starbucks. BBC News is covering a deadly truck crash in Mexico that killed dozens of migrants from Central America trying to get into the U.S. Bloomberg explains how President Biden’s massive spending bill would increase the credits available to electric-car buyers. And the Washington Post looks at how Black and Hispanic communities worry they’re being left behind in the shift to electric vehicles because many of their neighborhoods have few charging stations. Vice has the story of how New Zealand’s government is planning to ban the sale of cigarettes to all future generations.

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