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I spy a deal.A house whose last owners were a couple of uber-secret Russian spies has gone on sale in Montclair, NJ nearly three years after FBI agents took Richard and Cynthia Murphy – real names Vladimir and Lydia Guryev – away in cuffs.“Yeah, the spy cases are unusual, but we do sell a lot of real estate from other federal crimes,” said Lynzey Donahue, a spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Servi...
Two women were shot Friday at a Virginia mall that houses a community college, and police have the gunman in custody, authorities said.Both victims were taken to the hospital. Their condition was unknown.Students and workers were evacuated from the New River Valley Mall in Christianburg, NBC station WSLS reported.A witness told the Roanoke Times that a gunman walked into the lobby of the mall, nea...
House Republican leadership rammed through a bill (H.R. 1120) earlier today that would effectively put the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) out of business. The NLRB enforces rules established under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which protects the rights of workers to form unions, bargain collectively and have a voice on the job.
Saru Jayaraman, co-director and co-founder of ROC-United, will appear on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" tonight at 10 p.m. EDT to discuss the importance of raising the tipped minimum wage for our country's 10 million restaurant workers. If you have HBO, be sure to tune in.
A 17-year-old student died after being shot at a playground on Thursday across the street from his Philadelphia high school.Bernard Scott was an Overbrook High School student. Police say he was an innocent bystander of the shooting. Another 17-year-old, who was not immediately identified, remained in critical condition Thursday night.Police tell NBC10 that this all began as a fight between a group...
A Virginia man was sentenced to seven years in prison for swiping President Obama's teleprompter and a truckload full of other White House press gear.Eric Brown pleaded guilty to theft of government property in January. The 49-year-old Richmond man had a history of drug use according to court papers, and was a suspect in about a dozen other truck thefts. “If I had to sum up Mr. Brown’s character,...
AFL-CIO will be hosting two powerful Book Club events in Washington, D.C., that will help explain the current state of the U.S. economy, income inequality and the politics of austerity. On Monday, April 15, Nobel Prize-winning author Joseph Stiglitz will be discussing his book The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future. On Tuesday, April 16, Robert Kuttner will talk about his book Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility.
This is a cross-post, by Doug Foote, from Working America's Main Street blog. This week, Minnesota state Rep. Jason Metsa (D) is taking the Working America Minimum Wage Challenge—living on the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. He’ll report his experience back to the Minnesota legislature, where they are considering a bill to raise the minimum wage to $9.95.On Wednesday, Metsa’s challenge was to find a place to live. Why a challenge? His budget that he set out on Monday allowed for only $359 a month for housing.
On one side of the rope, students, workers, a polar bear, a walrus and Robin Hood stood. On the other side, a series of fancily dressed Wall Street executives. The tug-of-war was over a proposed half penny tax on Wall Street transactions designed to raise billions of dollars to pay for education, climate change mitigation and the improvement of public infrastructure. That was the scene Thursday when working family activists who are part of the U.S. Robin Hood Tax Campaign rallied at Hotel Palomar in Washington, D.C., where finance and environmental ministers of select developed countries met.
Evangelical pastor Rick Warren said that his son, who killed himself last week after a prolonged battle with mental illness, bought an unregistered gun over the Internet.“Someone on the internet sold Matthew an unregistered gun,” Warren said Thursday on Twitter. “I pray he seeks God’s forgiveness. I forgive him.”The youngest son of the popular pastor and author, 27-year-old Matthew Warren committe...
