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An anonymous donor mailed a military Purple Heart to a Wisconsin girl who survived being stabbed 19 times. The family was so moved that it wants to personally thank the sender.
Some insist the city’s mayor is overreacting to crime with plans to enforce one of the strictest curfews in the country. NBC national correspondent Peter Alexander reports.
In the latest in a nationwide effort to minimize concussions and brain injuries, California passes a law that will limit practices with full-on tackling during the playing season for middle and high school students.
The truck driver was crossing railroad tracks when his truck was hit by an oncoming freight train in Kentucky and burst into flames.
As another round of negotiations for the U.S.–E.U. trade deal (known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP) began, 121 leading academic experts on trade, investment law, European Union (EU) law, international law, human rights, constitutional law, global political economy and related fields issued a statement expressing deep concern about the investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions that negotiators plan to include in the deal.
Here are some headlines from the working family’s news we're reading today (after the jump).
Last month, a United Nations panel held that cutting off water to Detroit residents suffering from high unemployment rates and low incomes, leaving them unable to afford their water bills, was a violation of basic human rights. This past weekend, actor Mark Ruffalo and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) joined close to a thousand protesters in a march organized by National Nurses United from Detroit’s Cobo Center to Hart Plaza. The chants of the crowd included “We got sold out, banks got bailed out." And there were renewed calls for a financial transaction tax, commonly referred to as a “Robin Hood tax.”
A pine tree planted in 2004 in memory of George Harrison in Los Angeles has died as a result of infestation by bark and ladybug beetles.
An anonymous military veteran sent his Purple Heart medal to the young girl stabbed by classmates who were trying to win favor from online character “Slender Man.”
An adorable grandpa was the life of the party when he surprised guests by tossing his canes during a wedding dance.
