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A new member of the first family arrived at the White House on Monday — a puppy named Sunny.First lady Michelle Obama tweeted a picture announcement and a White House blog post also introduced America to the female pup, who is a little over one year old.
One of four brothers who ran one of the world's most violent drug cartels from Tijuana, Mexico, was sentenced Wednesday in San Diego to 15 years in prison in what authorities called the end to a bloody era.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California authorities sought federal court permission to force feed some state prison inmates on Monday, six weeks into a hunger strike to protest the state's solitary confinement policies, court documents showed.
Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden, is undergoing medical tests in Houston, Texas, after being hospitalized last week.
Two teenagers were charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a college baseball player out for a jog in Oklahoma — a crime that one teen said they carried out simply because they were bored, according to police.James Francis Edwards Jr.
Officials battling a massive Idaho wildfire warned that thunderstorms forecast for Tuesday could trigger floods in the area already devastated by the "beast" of a blaze.
Alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev suffered a gunshot wound to the face as well as multiple other injuries before his capture, according to the trauma surgeon who treated the suspect after the massive police dragnet that nearly shut the city down for a full day.
Tsarnaev wounds extensive: documentsNewly unsealed court documents reveal the extent of the injuries Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev suffered before his capture in April.
Walmart reported last week that sales at its U.S. stores had unexpectedly declined. Walmart tried to explain its shrinking sales away by citing outside factors such as higher gas prices and payroll taxes.But, say many market observers, the real cause lies within Walmart itself—the largest private-sector employer in the United States and the poster child for low-wages.
The growing movement for a living wage and justice for fast-food and other low-wage workers will reach another milestone next week with a nationwide strike set for Aug. 29.Following the success and public support of a walkout in eight cities earlier this month, those workers and the community, faith and labor groups that back them are calling on fast-food and low-wage retail workers across the nation to join them in the fight for $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.
