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Two Navy midshipmen were ordered Thursday to face court-martial in an alleged rape at an off-campus party last year. A Navy investigation found insufficient evidence to court-martial a third midshipman.
Cleveland serial rapist Ariel Castro died with his pants down and a Bible open, according to a new report that detailed the falsification of prison logs and suggested that the kidnapper may have been engaged in auto-erotic asphyxiation.
During last month’s national day of action calling on Walmart to reinstate workers who say they were fired or disciplined for standing up for their rights to form a union and demanding justice and a decent wage, a group of North Carolina workers got their message out to Walmart managers and shoppers at a Raleigh store location in a unique action.
The mysterious death of a Georgia teen has taken a bizarre twist with the revelation that an autopsy of his exhumed remains found his internal organs missing and his body stuffed with newspaper. The family of Kendrick Johnson, 17, of Valdosta, Ga.
Back on Sept. 12, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted for the 42nd time to derail the Affordable Care Act. That’s 42 more times than they have voted on raising the minimum wage, increasing federal investments in our roads or highways or helping local school districts get the hundreds of thousands of teachers whose jobs were lost when the Great Recession cut local tax revenue back into our children’s classrooms. That makes the count zero votes on the things America's families want to see Congress address. Instead, having lost 42 times at this strategy if this were a best of competition, like the World Series best of seven games, House Republicans are now playing for best of out of 85 to see if they can finally derail people from getting access to affordable health insurance.
One of the American service members whose family is now being denied death benefits due to the government shutdown took to Facebook in the days before his death to voice his frustrations with Washington, his hopes for the future and his dedication to the military.
A flesh-eating drug that became popular in Russia has made its way across the ocean and to a Chicago suburb.Dr. Abhin Singla of Presence St. Joseph Medical Center said the Joliet, Ill., facility this week treated three patients who said they used the drug known as "krokodil.
The four fallen American soldiers whose families were denied a benefit because of the government shutdown were killed in a devastating series of explosions during a Special Operations mission in Afghanistan, U.S. military officials told NBC News on Thursday.
After nearly a year of protests, rallies, marches and court battles demanding “Fairness at Patriot,” a settlement has been reached that will help cover future health care benefits for the retired coal miners affected by the bankruptcy of Patriot Coal.
We are now 10 days into the House Republicans hostage crisis and counting. The GOP is holding America's families, our jobs and our future hostage. Check out our new hostage watch page: www.aflcio.org/GOPshutdown.You can share your shutdown story, find ways to take action and locate resources if you're furloughed from your job.
