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ATLANTA – At its widest point, the lonely space where Kendrick Johnson's body ended up was just 14.75 inches in diameter.The Lowndes County Sheriff's Office continues to insist his death was a freak accident. But the teenager's relatives are ramping up their efforts to have it ruled a murder.
The nation's top intelligence official told Congress on Tuesday that the U.S. has been snooping on friendly foreign leaders for years, and getting spied on by allies in return.
The U.S. spy chiefs defended the NSA's data collection programs to a Congressional committee on Tuesday, saying the activities were lawful, aimed at foreign terrorists and saved lives.
Two Florida mothers whose unarmed sons were shot to death gave emotional testimony Tuesday at a Senate panel, demanding that states alter their "stand your ground" laws.
In her testimony before a key House committee Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is expected to acknowledge problems with the HealthCare.gov rollout and pledge quick fixes to the bug-plagued online health insurance marketplace.
Amid a contentious nationwide debate over abortion that a federal judge called "the most divisive issue to face this country since slavery," abortion rights supporters have celebrated that judge's ruling Monday to strike down key provisions of a controversial Texas abortion law.
The answer, it seems, is "not without an affidavit." Davis, a Democrat who is running for governor of the Lone Star State in 2014, attempted to vote early in this year's elections in Fort Worth when she was told by poll workers that she had to sign an affidavit in order to vote under Gov. Rick Perry's new voter disenfranchisement law. The candidate's identification showed both her maiden and married names, Wendy Russell Davis, while the voter registration rolls only included her married last name, reading "Wendy Davis." Because the names didn't match exactly, she was required to sign an affidavit to vote.
American CEOs and boards of directors should take note of Pope Francis’ recent suspension of the “Bishop of Bling,” whose excesses included a $20,000 bathtub and a $42 million renovation of the German bishop’s residence, writes United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo W. Gerard.Click here to tell the SEC companies must disclose CEO-to-worker pay ratios.
A couple of unions and a worker-owned co-op are teaming up to grow a new sustainable farming model in Cincinnati, and Stephen Dienger couldn’t be happier. An apprentice farmer at the Our Harvest Cooperative, he came to the co-op in 2012 after working at farms in St. Louis and Cincinnati, where he developed a specialty in sustainable agriculture. His supervisors say he's enthusiastic and hard-working and that he is now a major force on the co-op's farm team. In the warmer months you might see him working the farm, free of socks and shoes.
Protesters will rally Tuesday in a San Francisco suburb where a 13-year-old boy who was carrying a plastic replica of an assault rifle was shot to death by a sheriff’s deputy last week.
