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The renaming of three Confederate-themed parks in Memphis has spurred foes — including a purported Ku Klux Klan leader known as the “Exalted Cyclops” — to lash out against what they say are attempts to erase history.
A Bangladesh native pleaded guilty to terror charges in Brooklyn federal court on Thursday for attempting to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank in Lower Manhattan last fall.
Comprehensive immigration reform with a road map to citizenship is essential to all of America’s workers, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a telephone press conference today, as he and Maria Elena Durazo, chair of the AFL-CIO’s immigration Committee, announced the labor movement’s campaign for a common-sense immigration process.
A California teacher who pleaded guilty to having sex with her 17-year-old former student is pregnant with the teenager's baby, prosecutors said in court Wednesday.
As a menacing and powerful blizzard takes aim at the East Coast, airlines are canceling hundreds of flights and some cities are bluntly telling their residents: Don't travel if you don't have to.
A shooting simulation game that lets children pretend to have shootouts has come to Queens and is raising concern among law enforcement authorities.
First Lady Michelle Obama will attend the funeral of a 15-year-old girl gunned down last week in Chicago, a White House source said.
In a near party-line vote, the North Carolina House of Representatives gave preliminary approval to a bill that would harm many of the state's more vulnerable citizens by cutting back on unemployment insurance. The measure would cut maximum weekly benefits by one-third, bringing the top weekly payout to $350, and reduce the maximum length an unemployed worker can get from 26 weeks to 20. As the bill currently stands, 80,000 workers are set to lose unemployment insurance payments.
Three officers were shot in California during the search early Thursday for a former Los Angeles Police Department officer wanted in connection with a double slaying in Irvine.
Most of us don’t know what happens to our recycling after we take it to the curb each week.On Feb. 2, hundreds of recycling workers and community supporters gathered in Oakland. The Recycling Workers Convention discussed a wide range of serious problems plaguing Alameda County’s recycling industry with an audience of elected officials and policymakers who oversee this supposedly “green” industry.
