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Hawaii’s governor on Wednesday signed a bill into law making same-sex marriage legal in one of the first states where gays and lesbians couples sought the right to wed more than 20 years ago.Weddings can begin Dec. 2 in the Aloha state, which is the 15th to grant same-sex marriage. Gov.
Six people were in police custody after three students were shot near a Pittsburgh school just as students were streaming home for the day, authorities said.
Just two days before Typhoon Haiyan devastated parts of the Pacific Island nation, two teenage boys and their father sang “Happy Birthday” over the telephone to their mother, who was visiting the Philippines, They said their ‘I love you’s’ and she told them she'd see them at Christmas.
A Pittsburgh high school was locked down and police were seeking "one to multiple" gunmen after three students were shot near the school just as students were streaming home for the day, authorities said.
A Pittsburgh high school was locked down and police were seeking as many as three gunmen after three students were shot outside the school just as students were streaming home for the day, authorities said.
Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and George Miller (D-Calif.) wrote a letter to President Barack Obama, signed by 149 other House Democrats, opposing renewing the traditional model of "Fast Track" trade promotion authority for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) or any other future trade deals. The letter expresses concerns that the procedure undemocratically denies Congress its rightful role in foreign policy and ignores congressional prerogatives to make policy on a host of other issues (such as labor, finance, health care and energy policy).
Shaul Schwarz is a conflict photographer who has spent time in the war zones of Israel, Gaza and Afghanistan. Originally from Israel, Schwarz has devoted himself to putting himself in harms way to tell compelling stories.
MSNBC’s new Friday late night show “Up Late with Alec Baldwin” recently featured an in-depth interview with Cristina Tzintzún, executive director of the Workers Defense Project (WDP). She explained the hardships and abuses immigrant workers face, especially undocumented construction workers in Texas, and some of the successes—such as the recent wage and job safety protections approved last month by the Austin City Council—WDP has seen.
A defiant Whitey Bulger refused to look at the families of his victims as they testified Wednesday at the Boston mob boss' sentencing hearing.They called him a coward, a psycho and a rat — a label the former FBI informant hates — and demanded he pay attention as they vented their grief and rage.
The model whose face appeared on the much-maligned Obama health care website says she felt intimidated by harsh public criticism of the program. The woman, who identified herself only as "Adriana" in an interview with ABC News, says she was never paid for appearing on the website's home page.
