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Here’s a taste of the government shutdown.
By Tony Dokoupil, Senior Writer, NBC News Grieving families of fallen U.S. service members are expressing outrage over a lapse in government benefits designed to help pay for funeral costs or travel to meet the flag-draped coffins of their loved ones.
Three soldiers from the same Washington state military base were charged Tuesday in the stabbing death of a fellow soldier.Pvt. Jeremiah DeShaun Hill, 23, of Chicago, was charged with first-degree murder and Pfc. Cedarium Laborious Johnson, 21, of Tyler, Texas, and Spc.
The man who died after having set himself ablaze last week on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was identified Monday night by police, who gave no indication they had any idea why he did it.His family said the man had long battled mental illness.John Constantino, 64, of Mount Laurel, N.J.
The Senate sat in almost total silence Tuesday as two of its most respected members denounced the suspension of a benefit that helps families of fallen soldiers meet their flag-draped coffins — an unexpected side effect of the government shutdown.
On a bright sunny fall day on the National Mall thousands of immigrants—including many families with young children—union members, community and faith activists delivered a message to the lawmakers inside the U.S. Capitol just blocks up the street “The time is now” for a vote on comprehensive immigration reform with a road map to citizenship.
Keeping up the pressure on the GOP, President Obama called a press conference Tuesday to again call on Congress to end the government shutdown and raise the debt-ceiling — and to accuse "extreme" members of the House of Representatives of extortion.
And this is why we can't have nice things.The celebrated, pseudonymous British street artist Banksy has been leaving crowd-pleasing marks all over New York City this month — only to have his work defaced day by day.
And this is why we can't have nice things.The celebrated, pseudonymous street artist Banksy has been leaving crowd-pleasing marks all over New York City this month — only to have his work defaced day by day.
In Canton, Miss., automaker Nissan is in violation of international labor standards on freedom of association through its aggressive interference with workers trying to exercise their fundamental right to organize a union, according to a new report released today by Mississippi NAACP President Derrick Johnson and international labor law expert Lance Compa.
