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Laurel Brennan, New Jersey State AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer, received the Evangelina Menendez Trailblazer Award on March 30. The award is named for Sen. Robert Menendez’s (D-N.J.) late mother and is given annually to New Jersey women for their outstanding contributions to the state and their advocacy on behalf of New Jerseyans.
The sole winner of February’s Powerball jackpot accepted his prize Tuesday, but hid his face behind the giant check. He says he’ll use his lump sum payout to set up a health and education charity for children.
NOGALES, Ariz. — Roman Catholic leaders made a rare visit to the border and celebrated Mass on Tuesday in the shadow of the fence separating the U.S.
Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC News’ chief medical editor, discusses a new study in the American Journal of Hypertension saying that too little salt can be equally as dangerous as too much.
Here are some headlines from the working families’ news we're reading today (after the jump).
Renee Trautwein, who lost her daughter Sarah in an accident involving a Chevrolet Cobalt, tells TODAY that the car’s airbags never deployed, a sign that the ignition may have switched off due to the faulty part at the center of GM’s recall.
It's now illegal to text and drive in more than 40 states across the country and the penalties for breaking the law are increasingly stiff.
Good morning, and happy Wednesday. Here are six of the top stories we are following this morning at NBC News:1. Deadly magnitude-8.
A firefighter works to extinguish the flames on a burning tractor-trailer on Interstate 75 in Stockbridge, Ga., on Tuesday.No injuries were reported in the blaze, which shut down all southbound lanes. The trailer was owned by Ira Higdon, a grocery distribution company.
The boozy incident in which a Secret Service agent in charge of protecting President Obama was found intoxicated and passed out in a Dutch hotel hallway was "isolated," Secret Service Director Julia Pierson said Tuesday.
