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On International Workers' Day, also known as May Day, working families are standing up across the United States, demanding action be taken on senseless deportations that hurt workers, families and communities.
The execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma began against a backdrop of controversy, with death-row inmates across the country challenging states' last-minute changes to lethal injections and the secrecy that shrouds drug suppliers.
Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett grimaced, clenched his jaw and jerked his body in the moments a lethal injection drug was administered to him Tuesday night — about three minutes after he was supposedly unconscious during his execution, according to a journalist who witnessed the chaos.
The U.S. Air Force presents the Prisoner Of War Medal to eight World War II-era U.S. Army Air Forces personnel during a ceremony at the Pentagon
After the mishap, the state has stayed the execution of another death row inmate. KFOR's Ed Doney reports.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka last week met with hunger strikers from the #Not1More campaign who are protesting the more than 2 million deportations that are tearing families apart from each other and hurting communities. At the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., Trumka addressed the three dozen hunger strikers, hailing from New Orleans and Springfield, Mass., and expressed his appreciation for “calling attention to this untenable, unacceptable situation.”If you want to send a message of solidarity and encouragement to the hunger strikers, text HUNGER to 235246 (standard data and message rates may apply).
A group of Florida divers have a shocking encounter with a shark. On diver describes it as “swimming with a submarine with teeth.” WBBH’s Charlie Keegan reports.
NBA legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson makes remarks after the announcement to ban LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling from the game for life. Magic also talked about rumors that he would buy the club.
The Senate today is expected to vote on a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour from its current $7.25 an hour. The last time the minimum wage was raised was in 2009 and its value has severely eroded. Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, would raise the wages of 28 million hardworking Americans.
A subway accident caught on camera has left a Philadelphia woman fighting for her life. She was walking on the platform edge on Tuesday when she fell off and landed on an electrified rail.
