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Moose are missing -- and the state of Minnesota doesn't want hunters to find them. Minnesota officials banned moose hunting indefinitely on Wednesday due to a dramatic drop in the animal's numbers.
Today over 100 immigrant youth leaders convened in Washington D.C. and participated in over 70 meetings with legislators from both parties.
A major winter storm bound for the Northeast could bury Boston and surrounding areas under more than two feet of snow later this week -- or it could be just a seasonably light dusting, depending on which weather forecast model is right.
A blizzard watch was issued early Thursday as a powerful winter storm threatened to dump up to 2 feet of snow across Boston and other parts of the Northeast on Friday night.
An attempt to ram through a partisan redistricting map by Virginia State Senate Republicans has been blocked by the speaker of the state's House of Delegates.
New York City will use the first round of Superstorm Sandy relief to help residents repair homes, rebuild local businesses and use competition to spur development of storm resilient technology, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday.
Software makers Microsoft and Symantec said they disrupted a global cyber crime operation by shutting down servers that controlled hundreds of thousands of PCs without the knowledge of their users. The move made it temporarily impossible for infected PCs around the world to search the Web, though the companies offered free tools to clean machines through messages that were automatically pushed out to infected computers.
There is a deep and personal reason AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is passionate about enacting immigration reform that provides a real pathway to citizenship for 11 million immigrants who call this country home. In a post today on Daily Kos, he writes:When people use the word 'immigrant' like an epithet, I take it personally. I come from a small town in southwestern Pennsylvania’s coal country called Nemacolin. It was not easy when my family came to this country. My parents and grandparents fled poverty and war from different corners of Europe.
A Justice Department paper concluding that the United States can order the killing of American citizens believed to be al-Qaida leaders shed at least some light on a legal rationale that lawmakers, journalists and civil libertarians have asked about for months. But it leaves a swarm of questions unanswered.
Students at Duke University in Durham, N.C., were gathering Wednesday to protest anti-Asian prejudice after a fraternity hosted a "racist rager" party last week replete with literature that lampooned Asian students.
