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The bump from $8.25 an hour to $10 an hour starting Wednesday is part of a plan to increase the city's minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2019.
President Obama announces that an American embassy will open in Havana later this month.
The United States and Cuba are re-establishing diplomatic relations for the first time in more than half a century.
A federal judge has issued an order directed at all probate judges in the state that they can no longer decline to issue licenses to gay couples.
A woman with terminal cancer will benefit from the auction of nearly 2,000 World War I posters.
Sam was found barely conscious in the small town of Carlsbad, CA. She can't remember her name or anything about her past, and now thousands have taken to the web to help solve the mystery.
For the first time in 40 years, visitors to the White House can take pictures and post to social media during public tours of "the nation's house."
In extraordinary remarks, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that Gov. Andrew Cuomo of "deal-making and horse-trading."
Rest in His Arms, an Illinois charity, has provided funerals for 25 children, mostly infants, abandoned or otherwise victims of crimes.
Mechanic Falls on the Little Androscoggin river proved a real challenge for rescuers, who eventually grabbed both boys stranded there after using inner tubes.
