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House Republican leaders passed Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget this week by a vote of 219 to 205, with no Democrats voting in favor. The Ryan budget is chock full of so many terrible ideas that it’s hard to single out the biggest stinkers, but here goes.
The 54-year-old Detroit man who was beaten into a coma by a mob after accidentally hitting a boy with his pickup was showing some improvement, his family said in a statement Friday.
He woke up to a nightmare — and now he's afraid to close his eyes again.One of the survivors of the California college-tour bus crash told NBC News that he is haunted by the scenes of death and panic that unfolded around him after he was jolted awake.
Nearly one year after the Boston Marathon bombing, photographer Robert X. Fogarty captured portraits of these survivors and first responders.
President Obama speaks at the National Action Network Convention in New York at 4:10 pm ET.
Postal Workers (APWU) members from eight midwestern states rallied outside a Staples store in Altoona, Iowa, Thursday evening as part of a drive to stop the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS's) privatization of retail operations. USPS is contracting services to Staples, with “postal counters” staffed with low-wage, high-turnover Staples employees rather than postal employees.
The 4-year-old girl who was killed when a car crashed into a Florida day care center on Wednesday was passionate and "absolutely infectious," her devastated mother told NBC News.“She was a princess and a superhero at the same time.
Calvin Aceves describes the moments after a FedEx truck crashed into a school bus that he was on.
On Thursday, the Minnesota legislature passed a bill that would raise the state's minimum wage for hundreds of thousands of workers to $9.50 per hour by 2016. Under the law, which supporters expect Gov. Mark Dayton (D) to sign, businesses with gross sales of $500,000 or higher are required to raise their minimum wage to $8 per hour in August, $9 a year later and $9.50 by August 2016. Many smaller employers will be allowed to pay a lower rate, one that will reach $7.75 by 2016. Workers under 18 and 19- to 20-year-olds who are training still can be paid $7.25 per hour. From 2018 forward, the state's wage will be indexed to inflation.
Young children, and their parents, are still trying to make sense of why a young girl, waiting for a snack inside her daycare, was killed by a car. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.
