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The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a copyright dispute over the 1980 Oscar-winning movie "Raging Bull" can go another round in court.
"Selfie," "tweep" and "turducken" were among more than 150 new words and definitions added to the 2014 updated Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the publishing company said on Monday.The additions to the U.S.
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.
Tonight, civil rights, union, student and other working family activists will kick off another round of Moral Monday actions at the state Capitol in Raleigh, N.C., as the year’s legislative session begins. They will be there even as new rules to suppress and gag the protesters passed last week are now in effect.
Officials seized a heroin stash valued at $11 million from a supplier to Connecticut and other New England states.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued the following statement after several anti-worker bills were defeated in the Missouri legislature:Defeating the attempt in Missouri to enact so-called “Right-to-Work” and paycheck deception legislation sends a strong signal that working people will stand together to prevail over outrageous attacks on their rights. This victory is a testament to common-sense bipartisanship and a direct blow to corporate interests whose goal is literally to hurt working people. Along with our allies, we’ll continue to build upon our successes and move forward to create better opportunities for all workers.
In his opening remarks to the Organization for Economic Co‑operation and Development (OECD) Forum panel, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said: "You know, whenever I come to the OECD, it's always interesting to discover which OECD I am talking to—the Monday Forum OECD that is getting serious about income inequality and going social, or the Tuesday OECD of the Economic Outlook—the OECD that makes excuses for continued mass unemployment and stagnant wages that is the reality in the majority of the OECD countries." After the forum, he was asked which OECD he found. See Trumka's response in this video.
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Jill Abramson, fired last week as executive editor of The New York Times, encouraged a group of college graduates Monday to use disappointments in their lives to “show what you are made of.
By Willian Avila, NBCLosAngeles.comA visit to "the happiest place on Earth" just got more expensive.The price of a single-day ticket to Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., for visitors 10 and older was raised to $96, up from $92. The increase applies to Disney California Adventure Park as well.
