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A federal judge hearing arguments Tuesday on whether Virginia's ban on gay marriage should be struck down told the parties she’d rule quickly in a case that could have repercussions for marriage equality throughout the South.At the end of the nearly two-hour-long hearing, U.S.
Only four Port Authority officials met this week's deadline to turn over all documents subpoenaed in the New Jersey Legislature's investigation into the George Washington Bridge lane closures, according to a list provided to NBC News.
Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrew a total of $1,200 from an ATM at a supermarket near his New York City apartment the night before he was found lifeless in his bathroom with a syringe still in his left arm, sources told NBC News.
While 11.3% of U.S. workers officially belong to unions, the labor movement is much larger. The movement isn't limited to official union members and the last year showed that, as workers marched side by side, union members or not, to fight back against injustices championed by corporate interests that are out of touch with America's working families. As AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said at the federation's constitutional convention in Los Angeles, “Politicians and employers want to divide us; they try it every single day. They want to tell us who can be in our movement and who can't, and we can't let them.”
Doctors at the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation say a teen who plummeted 3,500 feet to the ground last month walked with assistance Monday and may make a full recovery.Makenzie Wethington, 16, was severely injured when her parachute malfunctioned Jan. 25 while skydiving over Chickasha, Okla.Dr.
There’s a scary fact you may have missed if you didn’t see Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson’s piece from last month on Fast Track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. He points out that most of the Obama administration, Capitol Hill and corporate backers of the TPP studiously avoid the job-killing track record of previous trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement. They are, he says, ignoring the facts.Sign a petition to stop Fast Track dead in its tracks here.
A federal judge is hearing arguments Tuesday on whether Virginia's ban on gay marriage should be struck down in a case that could have repercussions for marriage equality throughout the South.
An alleged thief dubbed the “Apologetic Bandit” for his polite, remorseful tone while committing a string of robberies is in custody on suspicion of holding up at least 10 gas stations and convenience stores in Orange County over the past year.Farhad Sharifi, 19, was arrested Jan.
What do you do when your world-famous brand is so smashed by the recession that your stock price falls from $75 to $8? What do you do when your manufacturing plant has a culture that leads to high rates of absenteeism on Mondays and Fridays? What do you do when your product takes 18 months to get into the hands of the customers who want it?Generally, you go out of business.
The State of the Union: I loved that the first words of President Obama’s State of the Union address last week were about “a teacher spending extra time with a student who needed it.” And how about his one-liner about coming out of the “Mad Men” era and finally fixing unequal pay and the lack of paid sick leave (I like “Mad Men” on TV, but not in the workplace!)?
