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The female midshipman who has accused three former Naval Academy football players of sexually assaulting her is now suing the academy and its superintendent, arguing that he must remove himself from the case.
The massive California wildfire that loomed over Yosemite National Park and at one point appeared to pose a threat to San Francisco's water and electricity supplies was started when a hunter's illegal wildfire got out of control, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
A fatal stabbing at a Texas high school on Wednesday appears to have been prompted by a gang rivalry, investigators said.Seventeen-year-old Joshua Devon Broussard was killed and three others were injured in the altercation before school at Spring High School.
“It’s like getting punched in the gut. It’s like you’re not even in America.”The middle-aged man was just an onlooker, on his lunch hour in the Wisconsin Capitol rotunda. He’d been watching a crowd of 100 people singing when two police officers held up a powerful “long-range acoustic device” (also used to ward off pirates off the coast of Somalia) and the recorded voice of Capitol Police Chief David Erwin—Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) former bodyguard—echoed through the dome:
California inmates have ended a nearly two-month hunger strike to protest the prison system's isolation policies, prison officials said Thursday. All inmates began accepting prison-issued meals, Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard said.
In 15 cities today, Walmart workers and their supporters are staging their biggest day of action since the groundbreaking “Black Friday” strike in November. They are demanding that Walmart reinstate 20 workers they say were fired for taking part in a June strike, and they are calling on Walmart to end its poverty-level wage scale and pay a living wage.Sign the Walmart workers’ petition now to demand that Walmart reinstate fired workers, publicly commit to paying a living wage and respect workers’ rights.
Illinois officials said Wednesday that three sets of copper-plated wooden doorways being installed at the Illinois Capitol cost the state $669,608, and that more of such doors could be installed in the years to come.
We don’t use the term “viral” lightly, but these guys earned it. This note written by Journeys’ workers to their boss “Jamie” was posted to Reddit on Saturday and has zipped across the Internet today. “Niki, Jess and TJ” can now see their note in The Huffington Post, Gawker, msn.com and Yahoo! News, as well as thousands of posts, tweets, pins and tumbls.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak was headed Thursday for a predominantly gay neighborhood in Chicago hoping to persuade same-sex couples to come north to his state to get married — and spend lots of money on weddings while there.
Steven Fulop (D), mayor of Jersey City, N.J., will propose a bill next week that would require most businesses in the city to offer paid sick days to workers. Any company with 10 or more employees would have to provide up to five paid sick days annually. The bill is expected to pass, as much of the City Council is aligned with Fulop.
