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Lt. Gene Ryan also called on state attorney Marilyn Mosby to drop the cases against the remaining police officers charged in Freddie Gray's death.
Two men were charged with homicide in a March shooting that killed five people, including a pregnant woman, at a cookout in Pennsylvania, police said.
In the United States, our child care system is failing and this has hidden costs for working families. The typical annual cost for child care for a family with two children (an infant and a four-year-old) is nearly $18,000. That averages to about 30% of the typical working family's paycheck. This cost is so high that many can't afford it and leave the workforce altogether, with 75% of mothers and 50% of fathers in a recent poll saying they either left the workforce or switched to a less-demanding job.
This already was shaping up to be an election year dominated by opinions declared on Facebook and barbs traded via Tweet.
A remarkable union is about to take place—the partnership between the AFL-CIO and Gamaliel, an interfaith national community organizing network. This partnership reunites two important pillars in American history—faith and working people in unions—and is crucial for the survival of this nation.
House Democrats first took over the floor at 11:24 a.m. ET Wednesday, demanding Republican leadership schedule votes on the gun control bills.
Crystal was last seen on July 3, 2015 at the home she shared with her boyfriend.
Swedish furniture retailer Ikea is recalling children's safety gates because the locking mechanism is unreliable and may result in injury to children.
While partisan hostility plays out on the House floor, Democratic and Republican lawmakers head to Nationals Park for their annual baseball game.
The sighting came a day after search teams made the grim discovery of a body clad in a life vest off the western coast of Florida.
