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Members of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and interns from Union Summer took action at a Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) store in Rockville, Md., last weekend to protest the retailer's association with The North Face, a company that uses sweatshop labor in Bangladesh to produce its products. Nearly 2,000 workers in the factories in Bangladesh that North Face and other companies use have died in recent years because of unsafe workplace conditions. Watch the video to see the students in action.
The crash landing at San Francisco International Airport last summer killed three people.
Alabama Rep. Mike Rogers grills Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on why the administration has not immediately deported children that illegally cross the border.
NTSB investigators release their final report on the events leading up to, and the aftermath of the crash of flight 214, citing numerous errors by the flight crew, and emergency responders.
In a congressional hearing, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says that the government will open new facilities to handle the influx of unaccompanied minors at the southern border.
House Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hold ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
A new push to end the practice launched on Tuesday.
Court hearing for Aaron Hernandez who is charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtdao.
When the city of Toledo decided not to open Wilson Pool in North Toledo this summer because of a plumbing issue, building trades workers and the community stepped up to fix the problem and get children back to swimming. Lou Szabo, business manager of Plumbers and Pipe Fitters (UA) Local 50, is always looking for ways the union can help in the community, so when he heard the pool had a plumbing issue, his first instinct was to fix the problem.
Members of the Delano, Minnesota community prepare for potential floods as the Crow River is set to crest at a fifty-year high of 21 feet. KARE’s Melissa Colorado reports.
