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The lawsuit alleges it was illegal and negligent to sell the gear to James Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70.
People who live in Weed, California, said perhaps a quarter of the town had burned.
A grand jury will decide whether NASCAR's Tony Stewart will be charged in the death of a fellow driver at a sprint car race in upstate New York.
The NFL running back, who is embroiled in child abuse scandal, is seen leaving Winter Park in his Mercedes.
In what Communications Workers of America (CWA) heralds as "the largest labor organizing victory in the South in decades," passenger service agents at American Airlines voted to form a union after a 19-year struggle. In the vote announced today, 86% of the 9,000 agents who voted favored the union, which will now represent 14,500 agents, the vast majority of whom live in the South. American Airlines agents in the West are represented by the Teamsters, and the two unions form a joint CWA-IBT unit to bargain with the airline.
Crews were battling the King Fire, one of a dozen wildfires burning in California.
Parents can hit their children in all 50 states, and two-thirds say they have spanked their kids.
Authorities will hold a press conference Tuesday to release details about the search for the shooter who killed one trooper and wounded another.
Look out Washington, D.C. the Koch Sisters are back in town!We are so excited to be back in our nation's capital and continuing in our fight to stand up for working families across the country. Our pocketbooks may not be stuffed with billions of dollars, but we're determined to make our voices heard. From protecting Social Security and Medicare to ensuring equal pay for women, we're bringing the issues that most Americans care about to the center of the debate.
In case you missed it, on Monday AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka spoke some powerful words at the Missouri State AFL-CIO convention about racism and why the labor movement should care about the recent events in Ferguson, Mo. Above is the full speech, but below are some highlights.
