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An accused neo-Nazi facing federal explosives charges was granted a request for bond after a judge said he was not a threat to the community.
How We Should Rewrite the Rules of NAFTA for Working People
The North American Free Trade Agreement is typically called a "trade deal," but in reality it’s not much about trade. Its hundreds of pages of set rules for how the United States, Mexico and Canada can run their economies. Those rules give global corporations strong rights and privileges but don’t contain a single provision to ensure more jobs, better wages, clean air and water, affordable medicines, or any of the other benefits trade is supposed to bring.
By any measure important to working people, NAFTA was a failure. It didn’t raise wages. It didn’t help protect the environment or ensure that people who wanted to join together and negotiate on the job could do so. NAFTA’s rules are rigged—and they must change.
Trade is not inevitably bad for working people. A new NAFTA, with rules that working people help write, could create good jobs, raise wages, protect our natural resources and raise standards of living across North America.
These rules must ensure working people can join together to negotiate for better wages and working conditions. They must ensure citizens...
Bill Cosby's wife, Camille, made her first appearance at her husband's sexual assault trial on Monday, taking a seat in the courtroom.
More LGBTQ people were killed in the U.S. in 2016 than in any of the 20 years since record-keeping began, according to National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs.
More LGBTQ people were killed in the U.S. in 2016 than in any of the 20 years since record-keeping began, according to National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs.
In the days leading up to Comey's testimony, many Iowans said that the Russia investigations swirling around Trump were not their biggest concern.
A spokesman has suggested that Bill Cosby might testify, but legal experts say that's highly doubtful.
A controversial production of Shakespeare in the Park's "Julius Caesar" cost The Public Theater of New York a valuable airline sponsorship.
After meeting for more than five hours, Uber's board voted to accept all recommendations made by former Attorney General Eric Holder, to be made public Tuesday.
Closing arguments were set for Monday in the manslaughter trial of St. Anthony police Officer Jeronimo Yanez, who killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop.
