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The teenager's grandfather, Steve Sells, is scheduled to appear in court Friday on formal charges of child neglect, according to police.
With millions of people’s lives in limbo because of our dysfunctional and misaligned immigration system, President Barack Obama acted last month to reach a commonsense approach to resolving the deportations implied by law with practicality, while awaiting a final resolution from Congress—more than a year in waiting. Of course, the same House Republican leadership that shut down the government rather than do its job of passing a budget—and was in session less than one-third of the year—objected, claiming the president was trying to do its job.
A cat survived 36 days without food and water inside a shipping container bound for Hawaii, after being packed into a cardboard box in Virginia.
Police and city crews on Thursday began dismantling the nation's largest homeless encampment, notoriously named "The Jungle."
Here are some headlines from the working family’s news we're reading today (after the jump).
Cotton production involves the most child labor and forced labor in the world, according to the 2014 “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor” by the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs.
A math teacher driving a bus on Interstate 4 in Polk County helped 38 middle school children escape before the flames consumed the vehicle Wednesday.
NASA announced Orion's flight test was scrubbed for today because of issue related to valves on Delta IV Heavy rocket. They will try again tomorrow.
Several civil rights leaders, including Marc Morial of the Urban League, Cornell Brooks of the NAACP, Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network and others meet to discuss ongoing issues of police reform and economic empowerment and announce a 2015 action plan.
A Summit on College Opportunity, where President Obama, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden are scheduled to speak.
