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Georgia officials approve a new specialty license plate featuring a confederate battle flag. The approval has infuriated civil rights advocates. Paul Crowley reports.
A gaze behind a shield, Kiev burns in chaos, an entrance for a king, sliding to victory, repairs after lightning strikes and more.
The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) and its affiliates, which are at the forefront of the campaign to bring justice to construction workers worldwide, are the recipients of the 2014 Meany-Kirkland Human Rights Award, the AFL-CIO Executive Council announced in a statement adopted at its annual winter meeting in Houston.
A Scuffle breaks out in the Ukrainian parliament as violence intensifies on the streets of the capital.
Eight members of an unbeaten New Jersey high school wrestling team have been suspended after a photo surfaced showing team members posing with a mannequin in a rival school's colors hanging from a noose.
...It doesn't compare to the nightmare that cultural exchange workers at a Pennsylvania McDonald's franchise were subjected to before going on strike last year. As previously reported, the workers were subjected to 25-hour shifts without overtime pay, substandard housing, including sleeping in franchisee Andy Cheung's basement, and repeated threats toward any workers who complained. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the details of the settlement between Cheung and the workers, with more than $200,000 in damages and back pay to be paid to nearly 300 workers.
Oregon will enforce — but not defend — the state’s same-sex marriage ban, the attorney general said Thursday, noting that the prohibition could not “withstand a federal constitutional challenge under any standard of review.
A Georgia family disputes claims that their son was holding a gun during a deadly probation arrest, saying he was in fact holding a Wii console remote. WXIA's Duffie Dixon reports.
David Stow, the father of Bryan Stow, addresses the court, calling the defendants, Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood, "misfits" and "cretins" whose prison sentences were "insignificant next to what Bryan must endure."
In statements adopted Wednesday at its annual winter meeting in Houston, the AFL-CIO Executive Council:
Called for the restoration of the Voting Rights Act that the U.S. Supreme Court weakened in a 2013 decision;
Vowed its continued support for Tennessee Volkswagen workers and condemned the actions of extremist politicians and outside groups in the recent union election; and
Set steps to involve more young workers in all levels of the AFL-CIO.
