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The young couple accused of stealing multiple police cars from two cities and leading authorities on a high-speed chase through two states Tuesday morning have been identified as Blake Bills and Shayna Sykes.
A sloppy winter storm swept over the nation’s capital Wednesday, forcing federal offices to close and threatening to dump 4 to 8 inches of snow — the heaviest in Washington in two years.
The man suspected of killing a young couple and ultimately their newborn son in a hit-and-run crash in New York says he’s ready to turn himself in but is arranging for a lawyer first.
Today, labor is one of the key forces pushing for comprehensive immigration reform in Washington, D.C. To learn more about the movement's advocacy and more about how unions transformed themselves into outspoken champions of immigrant rights, I spoke with Maria Elena Durazo. A daughter of Mexican immigrant farm workers, Durazo rose to become the leader of the hotel and restaurant workers union in Los Angeles, the dynamic UNITE HERE Local 11. And, as chair of the national AFL-CIO’s Immigration Committee, Durazo is now a leading point person in the national immigration debate.
The biggest winter storm to hit the Chicago area in two years may have proved too much for a northwest suburban banquet hall.
Fix the Debt is the most hypocritical corporate PR campaign in decades, an ambitious attempt to convince the country that another cataclysmic economic crisis is around the corner and that urgent action is needed. Its strategy is pure Astroturf: assemble power players in business and government under an activist banner, then take the message outside the Beltway and give it the appearance of grassroots activism by manufacturing an emergency to infuse a sense of imminent crisis.
In December 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a 23-year-old market vendor in Tunisia, self-immolated to protest deep-seated government corruption that made it impossible for him to earn a living. Following his desperate action, Tunisian women helped spur protests and end autocratic regimes in Tunisia and throughout the Arabic-speaking world. Today, Tunisian women remain in the forefront of ensuring democratic change in their country during the difficult years of government transition.
Frank Meyer, a 911 dispatcher and volunteer firefighter charged with slave trafficking and sexual assault, committed suicide on Tuesday night while out on bail in Vermont.
The community of Simpsonville, S.C., has figured out a way to put a police officer in every school without spending a dime of taxpayer money, and are hoping to be a model for the rest of the country. NBC’s Katy Tur reports. (TODAY)
Washington, D.C. faces its heaviest snowfall in two years as a sloppy winter storm moves in from the Midwest, shutting down federal offices and threatening to dump between four to six inches of snow on the nation’s capital on Wednesday.
