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Members of SeaWorld San Diego's rescue team work to clean off an oiled sea lion from the Santa Barbara oil spill.
Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing around the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here's a look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week.
The two men, who were arrested unarmed, are suspected of planning to travel abroad to join ISIS, sources said.
The Senate could defeat a House-passed bill moving bulk collection of telephone metadata from the government to telecom companies instead.
Onetime fans of the Duggars, the reality television family known for its healthy progeny, are now demanding the show be canceled following allegations of child molestation involving the family's oldest child.
This month, I joined the chairman of the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and many other leaders to call on our nation to act now on a pressing need—bringing our infrastructure into the 21st century.
Leave it to the right-wing neoconservatives at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to defend the indefensible: runaway CEO pay levels. Last week, the AFL-CIO’s Executive Paywatch website announced that S&P 500 company CEOs made on average $13.5 million in total compensation in 2014, an amount equal to 373 times the average production and nonsupervisory worker’s pay.
Joseph Bacani was shot through his pelvis by an Iraqi sniper guarding an IED believed to have been built by Anis Abid Sardar.
A British taxi driver was sentenced to a minimum of 38 years in prison for his role in a bomb-making campaign that killed a U.S. solider in Iraq.
Kerrie Orozco, 29, a seven-year Omaha police veteran who was working as a detective with the department's fugitive task force, died Wednesday.
