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Watching his profanity-laced flub for the first time was "gut-wrenching," fired local anchor A.J. Clemente told TODAY Wednesday. Just 15 seconds into his very first broadcast as the new weekend news anchor for NBC affiliate KFYR in North Dakota on Sunday, he dropped an F-bomb and an S-bomb on air."I didn't even know I said it on camera until my news director walked in on the third break," Clemente...
"The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.”The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said that in 1965, and African Americans still hear his quote ring.A new report, Blacks in Unions: 2012, by the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Labor Research and Education, finds that black workers are 19% more likely to be in unions than non-black workers. In the nation’s 10 largest metropolitan areas, African Americans are 42% more likely than non-blacks to be in unions.
MAKHACHKALA, Dagestan -- A Boston mosque has refused to hold a funeral service for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged mastermind of the marathon atrocity, his aunt said Wednesday.Patimat Suleimanova said U.S. authorities had told the family they could have the 26-year-old's body. Tsarnaev was killed during a shootout with police on Friday.His 19-year-old brother, Dzohkhar, is still hospitalized and ha...
Flood-weary homeowners and sandbaggers across the Midwest were braced for record-level river crests Wednesday amid forecasts that rain would add more water to already-swollen rivers.Possible snow flurries were also predicted for some flood-hit areas.Showers and scattered thunderstorms were expected to move through the lower Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and Kentucky with a cold front into Wednesday aft...
If the FAA furloughs air traffic controllers and a plane full of passengers sits on the tarmac for 3 or more hours, should the Department of Transportation (DOT) ding the carrier for violating the government’s three-year-old rule against extended tarmac delays?The airline industry says “no” and two industry trade groups — Airlines for America (A4A) and the Regional Airline Association (RAA) — have...
