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Gay rights supporters cheered a federal judge’s decision in Texas on Wednesday to strike down the Lone Star state’s same-sex marriage ban — with shouts of “Kissing Cowboys!” and “I am proud to be a Texan” — in what one described as a “landmark day" in the bid for lesbians and gay men to wed.
The Affordable Care Act imposes a penalty on larger employers that do not offer affordable, adequate health care coverage to employees who work 30 hours a week or more. But a Republican House bill (H.R. 2575) would kick the threshold up to 40 hours a week, and a new report from the Congressional Budget Office finds that move could cost about 1 million people their employment-based health insurance.
It’s finally going to rain in California.A pair of storms are expected to sock the drought-ravaged state beginning Wednesday night, delivering 2 to 3 inches of rain in San Francisco through Saturday and as much as 5 inches in San Diego and parts of Los Angeles.Downtown Los Angeles has gotten only 1.
A federal judge on Wednesday declared Texas’ ban on gay marriage unconstitutional but left the ban in place while an appeals court considers the matter.The judge, Orlando Garcia of U.S.
A California teen is recovering after plummeting into a ravine. KCRA's Richard Sharp reports.
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ordered Google to remove from its YouTube video-sharing website an anti-Islamic film that had sparked protests across the Muslim world.By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the 9th U.S.
In the past decade, temporary work arrangements grew steadily in the United States—20% since 2003. In 2013, there were 2,673,800 workers employed in the temp industry, which accounted for 24% of all job growth in the United States during the tepid economic recovery from 2009 to 2012. Often these workers perform the same work as permanent employees for lower wages, little training, no benefits and no promise of security. Unfortunately, according to a recent ProPublica investigation, the United States lags far behind other industrialized countries in labor protections for temporary workers. Of 43 “developed and emerging economies” tracked by the OECD, the United States ranks near the bottom, at 41st, for temporary worker protections.
They've been romanticized in song, and shared the big screen with some of Hollywood's biggest stars. Their very mention conjures visions of a way of life in the Old West that has all but disappeared.
The easy part for the people of Ukraine might have been the toppling of their government now the question is what will Russia do?
The easy part for the people of Ukraine might have been the toppling of their government now the question is what will Russia do?
