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Lawyers for terror suspects held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo, Cuba, said Tuesday that detainees are engaged in widespread protests of conditions at the prison, including a hunger strike that may imperil their lives.
Arkansas' State Senate on Tuesday rebuffed the governor's veto of a controversial bill that would make abortions illegal after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Closing statements begin in the Zumba prostitution trial, with prosecutors arguing defendant Mark Strong is guilty of much more than simply having an affair with a fitness instructor.
Two Wyoming teenagers who police say stole guns then murdered a family while trying to steal a car will be held in jail without bail.
Traumatic brain injuries sustained by more than 200,000 U.S. troops during combat explosions may be fueling the military’s suicide crisis, according to a letter co-signed by 53 congressional members who are seeking additional data to investigate the new theory.
The Obama administration has no intention of carrying out drone strikes against suspected terrorists in the U.S. except in case of “an extraordinary circumstance” such as the 9/11 terror attacks, according to a letter from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder obtained by NBC News.
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama joined a growing chorus of voices demanding that the national minimum wage be raised. Tuesday, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Representative George Miller (D-Calif.) announced they will introduce the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013.
The FBI is asking for the public's assistance in helping to find the operator of unmanned aircraft spotted Monday near Kennedy Airport. A pilot of an Alitalia flight was on the final approach to Runway 31R at about 1:15 p.m.
Before a packed crowd at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., Nobel-Prize winning economist Paul Krugman said the way to ease the economic crisis in the United States is to create more jobs through increased public investment, raising wages and restoring workers’ ability to bargain collectively. Austerity policies are the last thing we should be doing. The event was part of AFL-CIO's Book Club series. Krugman discussed major themes in his book End This Depression Now!, which was just released in paperback.
The White House is canceling tours of the president's famous abode starting next week, saying the budget cuts that went into effect last week are to blame.
