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A new report from the Center for Popular Democracy examines the ways that large financial institutions are helping dismantle the middle class and making life more difficult for working families. The top 10 banks alone bring in some $100 billion in annual profits, and a significant amount of that revenue is generated from sometimes unethical and questionable tactics that working families have a hard time fighting back against.
Poland says a passage in an article by the chief wrongly implied it was complicit in the Nazi genocide of European Jews.
Dash cam video shows cops and a bystander rescuing a driver from burning car in Mesquite, Texas.
Blue Bell is recalling all of its products on the market after two samplings of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream tested positive for listeriosis.
Congress is bracing for a huge showdown over granting the White House "fast track" authority to negotiate on a sweeping, multinational trade deal.
"There's almost an abundance of smoking guns in this case."
On Monday, hundreds of workers and their allies rallied in front of the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., then marched to the U.S. Trade Representative's office in opposition to Fast Track trade legislation that would allow the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to pass with little oversight or public input. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was a featured speaker at the rally and joined AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre, Communications Workers of America (CWA) President Larry Cohen, political commentator Jim Hightower, Campaign for America's Future, National People's Action, Alliance for a Just Society, USAction and workers from numerous unions in the rally, which also featured a giant TPP Trojan horse.
"It is impossible for me to overstate the importance of the decision in front of you," the judge said.
He is charged in the shooting death of Eric Harris on April 2.
