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Boston Police said Wednesday they have arrested three more suspects in the marathon bombing investigation, but gave no immediate details.Authorities had previously identified only two suspects —brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — in the April 15 blasts that killed three and wounded more than 200 at the finish line of the iconic race.Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed during a firefight with p...
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison staged a sit-in in Chancellor David Ward's office Tuesday to demand that the school cut ties with Palermo's Pizza because of an on-going strike at the pizza company based on allegations of attacks on workers' rights. A dozen students participated in the sit-in before voluntarily leaving at police requests. One student, Maxwell Love, refused to leave and was arrested on charges of criminal trespassing and resisting arrest. Hundreds of supporters of the sit-in rallied outside and a number of them blocked a police van when Love was arrested.
As we approach International Workers' Day, also known as May Day, it's hard not to wonder about the future of the labor movement, and whether or not young people in the United States will wake up and see that joining labor unions could be a part of the solution to the nation's 22.9% youth unemployment rate.
The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will be holding its 21s Annual 'Stamp Out Hunger' Food Drive on May 11. The annual food drive is the largest annual food collection day in the U.S. In 2012, the drive collected more than 70 million pounds of food and it has collected nearly 1.2 billion pounds of food since it began in 1993.
