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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will be appearing at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on May 2 to promote her new book, A Fighting Chance, which chronicles her inspiring life story. From her working-class roots in Oklahoma to her successful 2012 campaign to replace incumbent Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R), Warren tells the passionate story of what drives her to fight for working people. Here are 12 key quotes from her that show why she is a champion of the 99%.RSVP to the event because space is limited.

At a news conference at a commuter train station on Friday, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal was hit by his own chart on an easel when an Amtrak whizzed by inches away from where he was standing. The news conference was about train safety.

Nine are dead and at least 32 others hurt after a violent weekend in Chicago, with the latest series of shootings taking place near an elementary school, when someone in a car opened fired on a group, hitting five people.

As the 2014 Boston Marathon prepares to get underway one year after bombings killed three and injured more than 200, the security effort has been described as the largest and most advanced presence in the race’s history. TODAY’s Natalie Morales reports.

The first wave of Boston Marathon competitors hit the pavement at 8:50 a.m. Monday, the first of 36,000 entrants hoping to endure the 26.1 miles from Hopkinton, Mass., to downtown Boston.

Do you trust your memory? In this segment of Rossen Reports, national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen puts eyewitness memory to the test, setting up a social experiment where people witness a crime and are asked to identify the perpetrator, with some surprising results.

At least 21 people were hurt after a car plowed into a church that was packed full of people for Easter services in Fort Myers, Fla. The driver says the car’s breaks malfunctioned as she was pulling into a parking spot. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.

The AFL-CIO today called upon President Barack Obama to halt deportations that tear families apart from each other, and today the AFL-CIO sent the president a memo urging him to take swift action on the urgent needs of workers and immigrant communities. 

The Boston Police Department vows the 2014 Boston Marathon will be a safe, family affair.

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