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Florida's House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to approve a gun and school safety bill that would raise the age to buy all firearms to 21 — and potentially put guns into the hands of some educators.
The new storm canceled thousands of flights and could make roads treacherous in major cities, including Philadelphia, New York and Boston.
Nine Pi Kappa Phi members have been offered a plea deal amid hazing charges in the death of pledge Andrew Coffey, who was found unresponsive in November.
Nine Pi Kappa Phi members have been offered a plea deal amid hazing charges in the death of pledge Andrew Coffey, who was found unresponsive in November.
Nine Pi Kappa Phi members have been offered a plea deal amid hazing charges in the death of pledge Andrew Coffey, who was found unresponsive in November.
"We do not take kindly to these threats," said Michael Avenatti, an attorney for adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who is suing President Donald Trump.
Remembering Memphis
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February marked the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Tennessee, a unionization attempt by public-sector workers that drew support from civil and labor rights leaders across the nation. Martin Luther King Jr., in town to organize a march in support of those strikers, was assassinated on April 4 of that year. This post commemorates these anniversaries and the historic links between civil rights and workers' rights, especially at a time when the right of public-sector workers to unionize is being argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. This post is excerpted from a forthcoming memoir, Climbing Up the Rough Side of the Mountain, by civil rights and labor activists Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill.
Even as a young man, A. Philip Randolph understood that the economic well-being of workers and the political rights of African Americans were inextricably linked. It is one of the reasons why, in the 1920s, he agreed to organize and operate the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first black-led labor union to receive a charter from the American...
The DOJ on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against California challenging three recently passed laws about immigration enforcement in that state.
The DOJ on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against California challenging three recently passed laws about immigration enforcement in that state.
A New Hampshire woman who won a Powerball jackpot worth nearly $560 million plans to give as much as $50 million to charity as a legal fight to keep her identity private proceeds, her lawyers said Wednesday.
