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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) turns 20 this year. Some 700,000 jobs have been lost, income inequality, the U.S. trade deficit and environmental and other problems have grown because of NAFTA in the past two decades. On Thursday, a panel of trade experts will hold a Capitol Hill briefing on NAFTA's failed trade model and how to avoid the mistakes of the past in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
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.
Coast Guard officials say more than 200 migrants trying to illegally enter the U.S. have been picked up in Caribbean waters in the last week.
See a collection of tweets from today's rally outside the Heritage Foundation (after the jump).
A body was spotted in the Pacific Ocean on Monday about two miles from the California beach where a man was swept into the sea during a baptism the day before, officials said.
The incident occurred Monday morning in Van Buren Township, Mich., when the SUV and truck collided. The SUV was dragged 50 yards before coming to a stop.
On the U.S.–Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., on Tuesday, members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration, joined by bishops on the border and Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston, will celebrate Mass on behalf of the nearly 6,000 migrants who have died in the U.S. desert since 1998.
Washington state officials hold a news conference to update the search through debris left by a deadly mudslide.
Sewage spills everywhere after a water treatment tank ruptures in northern Kentucky and local leaders don't know how long it will take to clean up the smelly mess. WAVE's Natalia Martinez reports.
Crews digging through the site of the mudslide in Washington expected some much-needed relief from rain on Monday, though treacherous conditions continue to hamper search efforts, officials said.
