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A 300-year-old violin worth millions of dollars is being held safely at Milwaukee police headquarters more than a week after it was stolen, according to NBC affiliate WTMJ.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power needled her Russian counterpart on Twitter Wednesday after meeting with members of the controversial Russian punk band "Pussy Riot.
Virginia isn’t for all lovers.An antiquated state law that makes it a crime to have sex outside of marriage remains on the books after an effort to decriminalize it failed to move out of a House subcommittee Wednesday.
The AFL-CIO rarely ends up on the same side of an economic issue as columnists from the Weekly Standard, but we just had to share this piece, which concludes that now is not the time for Fast Track (called in this article “Trade Promotion Authority”). In this column, Irwin M. Stelzer writes (after the jump).... Stop Fast Track trade legislation dead in its tracks by signing a petition here.
Some 82,000 tons of coal ash mixed with 27 million gallons of contaminated water — enough to fill more than 40 Olympic swimming pools — has leaked from a North Carolina power plant and is threatening water supplies across state lines.
Good morning, and happy Thursday. Here are six of the top stories we are following this morning at NBC News:1. Russian official reminds gays at Olympics not to ‘touch kids’Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak made the remarks Thursday while talking to reporters in Sochi.
A naked, growling man was shot dead by cops after biting a teenager's face and attacking a retired police officer on Wednesday, officials told reporters.
