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NBC's Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell report on a new ISIS video, which reportedly shows the execution of American journalist Steven Sotloff.

NBC's Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell report on a new ISIS video, which reportedly shows the execution of American journalist Steven Sotloff.

A man says he was walking his pit bull puppy when it was killed by an alligator in an Orlando lake. WESH's Amanda Ober reports.

In our regular weekly feature, we'll be taking a look at the winners and losers of the week in the struggle for the rights of working families. The winners will be the persons or organizations that go above and beyond to expand or protect the rights of working families, while the losers will be whoever went above and beyond to limit or deny those rights.

Joan Rivers "remains on life support," her daughter Melissa Rives said on Tuesday.

State Department Spokesperon Jen Psaki holds daily briefing.

State Department Spokesperon Jen Psaki holds daily briefing.

The federal judiciary of Mexico extended protection late last week to the embattled leader of the National Union of Mine, Metal, Steel and Allied Workers (Los Mineros), Napoleón Gómez Urrutia. In what will go down as a historic victory for the Mexican labor movement, the three judges of the circuit court unanimously declared the arrest warrants against Gómez unconstitutional, siding with Gómez’s legal defense team that the charges were without merit and politically motivated. This ruling will allow Gómez to return to Mexico in absolute freedom, as the Mexican government must now cancel extradition requests pending in Canada and with Interpol.

Officials say that most of the teens who escaped from Woodland Hills Youth Development Center have at least three felonies on their criminal records.

It’s been a long time since companies honored workers with more than just lip service once a year on Labor Day. Decades, actually. Since the late 1970s, wages of workers have not even kept pace with inflation. Meanwhile, CEO pay has soared. But because companies do not disclose a vital piece of information—the pay gap between their CEO and their typical worker—investors and the public cannot gauge which companies are investing in their workers and which are not.