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Three people were shot on Monday while inside the New Castle County Courthouse in Wilmington, Del., police said, and the suspect is in custody. Wilmington Police Cpl.
In 2008, with the global financial crisis at its peak and the world teetering on the brink of a second Great Depression, world leaders and policymakers took decisive fiscal and monetary policy actions that bolstered our economies and stopped our financial system from spiraling into chaos and dragging our economies into depression.But today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told the “Trans-Atlantic Agenda for Shared Prosperity” economic summit: Our work is far from done, and no progress has been easy. We have had to battle those who wanted to block the fiscal stimulus, which was so critical for halting our economic slide. And we are still battling those same opponents who now want to impose strict fiscal austerity that threatens to sabotage our economy and trigger a new recession, as those same policies have in Europe.
A new report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) reveals that state governments lost $39.8 billion in revenues because corporations and wealthy individuals are using offshore tax havens to avoid paying their statutory tax rates. We've seen the devastating effects that offshoring jobs have had on America's workers, and offshoring has long been talked about in terms of lost federal revenue, where $150 billion a year goes unpaid, but little focus has been given to state losses from the practice.
The archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, explains the “mixed emotions” he feels about the news that Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28, saying he feels a “special bond” with the pope. (TODAY)
The Northeast began stirring back to life Monday after being buried under a record-setting winter storm that left at least 10 people dead in New England, buried cars and effectively closed some of the nation’s busiest airports for large parts of the weekend.
Beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 19, NBC News tallied every known gun death across the U.S., stopping at midnight on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 21— a day the gun debate again made national headlines as part of President Obama’s inaugural address. This interactive map shows all the gun deaths we uncovered
Less than one month into his second term, President Barack Obama looks to complete the outlines of an ambitious agenda in his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Police have charged a 14-year-old boy as an adult with first-degree murder in the death of his 7-month-old sister. Johnathan Aguiluc, 14, of White Oak, Md., is being held without bond in the death of Larissa Yanes.
Three people have been killed in a pre-dawn helicopter crash in a rural area of northern Los Angeles County while filming for a reality TV show.
