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Hitting a $16 million Powerball jackpot is a dream for most people. But losing a fortune by letting those lottery winnings expire is a nightmare — and that's what will happen Thursday if someone doesn't claim the ticket bought in May at a suburban Tampa, Fla., convenience store.
Richard J. Fiesta has been named the Alliance for Retired Americans’ new executive director, succeeding Edward F. Coyle, who has managed and grown the 4 million-member grassroots advocacy organization since its 2001 founding. The Alliance’s Executive Board voted unanimously to appoint Fiesta, effective Dec. 1.
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel is expected to be released from prison this week while prosecutors appeal a ruling granting him a new trial in the 1975 slaying of neighbor Martha Moxley, the latest dramatic development in a case with an extraordinary history.
Evangelist Billy Graham, who last week celebrated his 95th birthday, has been hospitalized with respiratory problems, NBC News has learned.The man who helped transform Christianity in America during his seven decades in the pulpit was taken to Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C.
Yesterday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka applauded the announcement JPMorgan Chase reached a landmark settlement with the Justice Department (see the statement after the jump).
Veterans of the war in Afghanistan met the news that a draft security deal may continue the American presence in the country for years to come with echoes of military muddles past, worrying that a sustained U.S. force will only render a sandier, sunnier version of Korea, if not worse.
Today, some 22,000 surgical and X-ray technicians, custodians, servers, cooks and other workers at nine University of California campuses and all of U.C.’s medical centers are on a one-day unfair labor practice strike over what they say is intimidation and harassment of workers who took part in an earlier strike over patient safety in May.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – They didn’t get to watch their children grow up into young adults. They missed saying goodbye to grandparents, and in one case, a father, before those loved ones passed away.
It’s time to give low-wage workers the raise they deserve by increasing the federal minimum wage. You can tell your senators that today, by clicking here to take part in a National Call-In Day of Action. Or, you can call 1-888-492-8867. Senate Democrats want to vote on a bill to raise the minimum wage, but Republicans will filibuster even allowing a vote on the bill and it will take 60 votes to break the filibuster and allow the bill to come to the floor.
An air and sea search continued Wednesday for two people missing after a Mexican-registered medical flight carrying four people crashed off the Florida coast.
