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Students named in the retracted Rolling Stone article focusing on UVA rape allegations respond to scathing new report on journalistic failings. Jenna Dagenhart reports.
A former Baltimore waitress has been awarded more than $250,000 after an arbitrator found that racial discrimination contributed to her firing.
Reading today’s Politico Morning Shift column, this sentence stood out in a short piece on Wisconsin Republicans’ efforts to repeal the state’s prevailing wage law: “That’s an 80-year law requiring that workers on construction jobs for local and state governments be paid a wage that the state determines to represent the prevailing norm—a calculation that tends to raise labor costs.” The bias in that construction is pretty simple, and it's one that is often repeated by journalists despite it being a very clear anti-worker frame: Workers are a “cost” and not an investment and not the part of a business that does the work that creates the company’s profits. In other words, this common construction says workers are a pesky obstacle instead of the source of revenue a company needs to survive and grow.
The driver began apologizing and kept trying to hug the homeowner and other people at the scene.
What to watch as three City Council races are decided.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest says he was in a meeting with President Obama Tuesday when the complex lost power for a short time. Earnest tells reporters that Obama was not affected by the incident and did not notice any problems.
Videos published on social media show hail, rain and lightning, wreaking havoc in towns near St. Louis.
In the four years since the United States and Colombia signed the Labor Action Plan—a precursor to the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement—to address entrenched labor rights violations, Colombian workers have suffered more than 1,933 threats and acts of violence, including 105 assassinations of union activists and 1,337 death threats, according to the latest report issued by Escuela Nacional Sindical (Colombia’s National Union School).
Palm Springs is a man-made oasis blanketed with more than 120 golf courses, and dotted by swimming pools, a water park and plenty of green lawns.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Marie Harf uses the flashlight on her cell phone to see reporters at Tuesday's press briefing. The power at the agency was out as Washington, D.C., experienced a large-scale power outage.
