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A naked body washed ashore in Miami Beach, Fla., on Thursday morning, sparking a police investigation and sending chills through the neighborhood.
A 29-year-old Bristol, Conn., man is suspected of setting fire to the Wasteland Gift Shop in Bristol to help him get in and then stealing martial arts weapons, according to Bristol police. Police responded to the shop at 320 Terryville Road at 1:22 a.m.
The "chained" CPI cost-of-living formula—which would result in a painful cut in benefits for Social Security recipients—was touted as good policy by White House National Economic Council director Gene Sperling in an "Ask Me Anything" Reddit chat yesterday.
Across-the-board budget cuts—called sequestration—will cost more than 750,000 jobs this year alone and many more jobs over the next decade. There is a simple solution to make this problem go away: repeal sequestration.It's that simple.Join working families on March 20 for a national day of actions at congressional offices and in our communities.Find an event near you.
Democratic Reps. John Conyers (Mich.), Keith Ellison (Minn.), Alan Grayson (Fla.) and Raul Grijalva (Ariz.) will demand action on a one-sentence bill introduced by Conyers called the "Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013."You can watch the press conference live at 12 p.m. EDT here or in this blog.
More than 100 people attended a candlelight vigil in Brooklyn Wednesday night for 16-year-old Kimani "Kiki" Gray just blocks from where he was shot to death by police Saturday night.
The public is being invited to vote on designs for a competition to reinvent New York City’s payphones. NBCNews.com’s Dara Brown speaks with New York’s technological agency about the challenge. (NBCNews.com)
The public is being invited to vote on designs for a competition to reinvent New York City’s payphones. NBCNews.com’s Dara Brown speaks with New York’s technological agency about the challenge. (NBCNews.com)
A man suspected of killing four people and injuring two more in upstate New York died on the second day of a standoff with police.
NEW YORK -- A woman clutching her baby son in her arms plunged eight stories out of an apartment window to her death in an apparent suicide on Wednesday, but the baby survived, police said.
