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The catastrophic earthquake over the weekend took out power and phone service for whole swaths of the country.
Watch the daily U.S. State Department Briefing.
On Tuesday, April 28, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler, the executive director of Student Debt Crisis, Natalia Abrams, and special guests will be answering your questions about student debt and talking about solutions to the growing student debt crisis. The discussion begins at 3 p.m. EDT, and you can watch it on YouTube.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will deliver a major address Tuesday at 10 a.m. outlining the standards that working people will use to evaluate 2016 presidential candidates and highlighting raising wages as a key issue in the 2016 campaign. The live stream of the address will be available at http://go.aflcio.org/TrumkaSpeech and you can follow on Twitter with the hashtag #1uVote16.
Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense team began its case against his execution on Monday.
The sheriff said he accepted the resignation "as we look as a community for answers."
A man who was rescued from a dumpster by a Santa Ana police officer 25 years ago was reunited with the same officer and his biological father.
The AFL-CIO and more than 60 national and regional infrastructure and transportation advocacy groups will take part in Infrastructure Week 2015, May 11–15.
Funeral for Freddie Gray, who died after suffering a fatal spinal injury while in custody of the Baltimore police, will be held at New Shiloh Baptist Church.
A Philadelphia law school professor says she was "mortified" when she discovered that she had inadvertently sent students a link to a porn site.
