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An elephant named Patience killed a zookeeper in Missouri on Friday morning, and officials said the animal won't be disciplined.
Signaling how wide a swath of America the federal government shutdown is affecting, the AFL-CIO, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the United Way sent a joint letter today to Congress and President Barack Obama urging them to end the shutdown now.
The characteristics of autism, long thought of a mystery, turn from an enigma to life-threatening dangers when autistic children go missing, experts say.Family members of Avonte Oquendo, a 14-year-old non-verbal autistic boy who vanished a week ago from his Queens, N.Y.
Police are expanding the search for a 14-year-old mute autistic boy last seen running away from his Queens school a week ago, adding extra officers to the investigation and interviewing sex offenders in the area.
An elephant named Patience charged and killed a zookeeper in Missouri on Friday morning, officials said.
The top Air Force general in charge of the United State’s entire arsenal of nuclear weapons has been relieved of his command due to loss of trust, defense officials told NBC News.The officials would not say what led to the firing of Maj. Gen.
The nearly two-week-old government shutdown, engineered by House tea party Republicans, is hurting everyday working people and their families. The 800,000 federal workers and tens of thousands of government-contracted employees shut out of their jobs and others forced to work without pay perform vital duties for the public and now are struggling to keep roofs over their heads and food on their tables.Here are five stories you need to read from shut-out workers and about shut-down services. Click here to share your story with us. We need to make sure the GOP understands who is hurt every day this shutdown continues.
Walmart may be the world’s largest retailer, but the seemingly omnipotent company hasn’t made its way into some of the world’s largest markets, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.
America's working families rallied on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., this week for a vote on a road map to citizenship and a commonsense immigration process. Read about the event here, and watch the video in the post.
Utah has struck a deal with Department of the Interior to reopen eight of the state’s National Parks and monuments as other states that depend heavily on the tourism dollars generated by the outdoor attractions considered similar measures amid the ongoing government shutdown.
