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NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) is moved, in pieces, to its final home at Space Center Houston, where it will eventually hold space shuttle replica Independence.

The first annual D.C. LaborFest kicks off on May 1 with a May Day wreath-laying in honor of legendary labor organizer Mary Harris “Mother” Jones’ 184th birthday.

A mother in Kimberly, Alabama gets emotional as she recalls hearing a tornado warning just moments before it stuck her community.

Temperatures that could rise to 100 degrees are expected to be accompanied by Santa Ana Winds this week.

A resident of Kimberly, Alabama says he took tornado warnings lighter than he should have as he surveys the damage done to his home.

On Saturday, Working Families United for New Jersey Inc. (WFUNJ) and the Essex-West Hudson Central Labor Council launched a new initiative, “One Pathway, Many Voices, Stronger Communities,” to help aspiring Americans become U.S. citizens, register to vote and learn how the electoral process works. The program also will help DREAMer students renew their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals application. 

If there’s a ground zero for this week’s tornado outbreak, it’s Vilonia, Ark., where eight people died on Sunday — more than in any other place.Two days later, Aspen Creek Road in Vilonia is a 360-degree landscape of destruction.

Should they buy gas? Should they pay their bills? Buy groceries? Listen to minimum wage workers explain why they can't survive on $7.25. Do you agree that America’s working people need a raise? Sign the petition.

A woman describes her encounter with a gunman that entered a FedEx station and opened fire wounding at least six people.

The victims include an Iraq veteran and two young brothers. A widow and a father and two of his daughters.The deadly tornadoes buffeting the South since Sunday have killed 28 people across six states.