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A judge has ordered an Oakland hospital to keep a girl declared brain dead on life support following what was supposed to be a routine tonsillectomy.
It's one of the most powerful pictures from the Iraq war: an 8-year-old, his lip trembling, is handed a folded flag at his father's funeral.
SEATTLE — In a city known for a giant needle pointing toward space, everyone is talking about a massive machine stuck underground.They call her Bertha, a 57-foot-wide, earth-eating tunnel maker chewing her way below downtown Seattle to make way for an underground highway along the city's waterfront.
WASHINGTON - John Hinckley is ready for more freedom from the mental hospital where he has lived since shortly after he shot President Ronald Reagan in a failed assassination attempt in 1981, a federal judge ruled Friday.U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman accepted a recommendation from St.
A federal judge has struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban, saying it is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Robert J.
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), the Center for American Progress (CAP), the Center for Effective Government and Salon have released important research about the economy in the last few weeks. Here's a look at some of the key pieces they have uncovered about the U.S. economy.
A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated Saudi Arabia as a defendant in lawsuits claiming it provided support to al-Qaeda before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S.
Here in the holiday season and stretching into the New Year, a lot of folks decide it’s a good time for a night at the theater or to take in a concert. A lot of us want to look for the union label, too. Here are some links that might help.
A new study published by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services finds that 40% of foreign-educated nurses working at U.S. hospitals say their wages, benefits or shift assignments are worse than those given to American colleagues. Foreign-educated nurses are recruited to fill nursing shortages in various parts of the country.
This week the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee announced it will ease back on its “pedal to the metal” monetary easing policy. The Fed will remain in an expansionary mode, just slower. To an optimist, this is a sign from an independent authority that the economy is stabilized and on a sustained path forward.
