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The solemn procession for Las Vegas police officer Igor Soldo, who was killed by two anti-government extremists, as his body is escorted to the Canyon Ridge Christian Church, in Las Vegas.
Four Russian bombers entered the U.S. Air Defense Zone near Alaska Monday, senior defense officials told NBC News on Thursday.
Arizona authorities have the latest information on a priest that was fatally shot at a Catholic church.
Two senior defense officials say the freed Taliban prisoner will arrive at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio sometime after midnight.
The pope flies by, last minute lipstick is applied, a three-run homer wins the game and more.
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Former President George H.W. Bush celebrates his birthday by completing his eighth parachute jump.
Ruby Dee, an actress whose acclaimed career stretched from Broadway to the Silver Screen to civil rights rallies, has died.
Government purchasing, which is anything the government might buy from computers, iron, pipes and furniture to services like construction and janitorial contracts, should be used as a tool to promote job creation, wage growth and a cleaner environment for working people. This is especially important given the threat of climate change and the staggering inequality in the U.S. economy. But because today’s trade deals (from the World Trade Organization [WTO] to various Free Trade Agreements [FTAs]) restrict government choices about how to purchase goods and services, the opportunities to use government purchasing (also known as procurement) in this way are limited.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is listening up, and wants Lionsgate and other film production companies that take taxpayer dollars but send musicians’ jobs overseas to do the same.
