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It's a story with a happy ending over a decade in the making. A daring escape and a dramatic 911 call led to the rescue of three women who allegedly had been held captive for years inside a home in Cleveland, Ohio. Below is a timeline of events in the case, from before the women first  disappeared to their eventual freedom. 2000: Police visit the Cleveland home of the three Castro brothers, who ye...    

This morning, Acting Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris and acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis announced that the United States had finally requested consultations with the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain under the Labor Chapter of the United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement.  We’re pleased the U.S. government is moving ahead with consultations even though we had hoped this announcement would have been issued months ago.  Unfortunately, the campaign to dismantle the Bahraini labor movement has been moving much faster than the U.S. response.

Despite efforts to create a "military culture free of sexual assault," the Department of Defense announced Tuesday that the number of cases increased sharply in the last year, a trend that critics pointed to as proof that more aggressive measures are needed to end the epidemic. The annual report, released by the DoD's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, found that 3,374 incidents of "un...