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As Ryan Ferguson reunited with his family and began his new life as a free man after 10 years behind bars, he vowed to fight to free Chuck Erickson—the man whose now recanted accusation and confession put Ferguson in jail.
The State Department said Friday that it has been quietly offering rewards since January of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of any person involved in last year's attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya.
The husband of a Washington state woman accused of leaving a bomb outside a hospital has also been arrested, and both were due in court later Friday on explosives charges.
Collective action — the art of working together with others to achieve a common goal — is as old as human beings themselves. Though it's sometimes a challenge, if we hope to change things for the better in our personal lives, at work, in our communities, and in our political systems, that's the starting point.Check out the AFL-CIO's Stronger Together site, where anyone can join the labor movement.
The parents of an unarmed woman who was shot to death on a suburban Detroit porch spoke publicly for the first time Friday since the teen's death 13 days ago, thanking the county prosecutor for filing charges against a homeowner in the case.
The latest video from the Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United tells the stories of workers who are "Living Off Tips." In an industry that is dominated by women workers who get paid a minimum wage of $2.13 plus tips, many workers can't afford to pay their basic necessities or the needs of their families. ROC United is calling on tipped workers to tell their stories so that more and more people can learn the difficulties of the hardworking women and men who rely on a tipped wage that hasn't been increased since 1991.
On Wednesday afternoon, several retirees and working family activists visited Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) office to deliver more than 708,000 signatures on a petition to the House Budget Committee chair, telling him there should be "no grand bargain in exchange for cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits." Ryan was not present and his staffers would not allow those with cameras into the office. Instead, a staffer came out into the hallway and accepted the petitions.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford isn't the first politician to smoke crack, buy drugs or drive drunk — and he's not the first one to try and hang onto his job in the face of scandal.
A homeowner has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of an unarmed woman on a suburban Detroit porch earlier this month.Renisha McBride, 19, was killed on Nov. 2 in Dearborn Heights, Mich.
A homeowner will be charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of an unarmed woman on a suburban Detroit porch earlier this month.Renisha McBride, 19, was killed on Nov. 2 in Dearborn Heights, Mich., when she went to a man's porch seeking help after a car crash, according to police.
