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A Chinese bowl that a New York family picked up for $3 at a garage sale turned out to be a 1,000-year-old treasure and has sold at auction for $2.2 million.
Ana Avendaño, assistant to the president and director of immigration and community action at the AFL-CIO, sent the following message to working family activists:Immigration has been all the buzz here in Washington, and you might have heard about it on your local news or radio station. It’s great news, because the story of immigrants in this country is rich and complex, and there’s a lot that goes into finding a road map to citizenship for the 11 million aspiring Americans. We’re hosting an online education session next week in the evening for anyone who wants to learn more about why the AFL-CIO is so invested in this fight for a commonsense immigration process. We want you to be there, so every member of our community knows how to talk about this issue. Will you join us?
As consumers and the federal government push for greater transparency about college costs, average debt and job-placement rates, major universities have been caught misrepresenting those and other numbers to improve the way they look to prospective students.
The executive director of Colorado’s department of corrections was shot dead by an unknown gunman at his home on Tuesday night, authorities in Colorado confirmed to NBC News.
A federal judge sentenced a Connecticut man to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing a toddler and two other young girls and videotaping the abuse.
A wheelchair-dependent double amputee has been charged with shooting and critically wounding an Alaska Wal-Mart manager over a disagreement about a service dog.
SAN DIEGO -- Two people riding in a just-purchased Lamborghini took off after the sports car crashed into a wall.
BOSTON -- New Englanders were preparing for another messy day of snow as they welcomed spring's unseasonable arrival. Forecasts called for as much as 16 inches of snow in parts of northern New England through Wednesday morning, bringing slippery road conditions.
A construction worker was rescued from an underground trench at the site of the Second Avenue subway construction project after being stuck in mud for nearly four hours Tuesday night.
Two percent of U.S. schoolkids – or about a million children – have been diagnosed with some sort of autism, according to the latest government report released on Wednesday.
