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It’s a million dollar-view from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa -- but tens of thousands of birds think so, too, and therein lies the problem.The base is located on a coastal wetland and dozens of species, both migratory and indigenous, love the location and consider the airstrip their own runway.
A bus carrying 32 passengers overturns in Blythe, California after striking steel pipes that were spilled on the road by a semi-truck that jackknifed moments earlier.
Pennsylvania's governor won't appeal Tuesday's decision by a federal judge that struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage.After the state attorney general declined last year to defend the ban, Gov. Tom Corbett, R-Pa., hired outside counsel to carry on the fight.
Eighty American service members are on the ground in North Africa to oversee drone operations in the search for the 276 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls, the Obama administration said Wednesday.
The "model minority" myth concerning Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) doesn't represent the reality of AAPIs' lives, a panel of activists told an audience at AFL-CIO headquarters on Wednesday. In fact, this myth harms AAPIs by preventing creation of services and infrastructure to help alleviate the problems faced by the community that contribute to mass incarceration.
Sailors line the bow of the destroyer USS Cole as it glides past One World Trade Center and the lower Manhattan skyline on Wednesday in New York City.
Many of us know the hardships that Walmart workers in the U.S. and in Walmart’s global supply chain endure. But their stories need to be told far and wide, and you have the chance to bring Walmart workers’ battle for justice to a wider audience.
Sailors line the bow of the destroyer USS Cole as it glides past One World Trade Center and the lower Manhattan skyline on Wednesday in New York City.
After 70 years in near obscurity, the men and women who worked to preserve cultural artifacts during World War II, nicknamed the “Monuments Men,” will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Robert Menendez (N.J.
Today the AFL-CIO released a statement about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in conjunction with the World Congress of the International Trade Union Confederation in Berlin, Germany. Read it after the jump.
