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The Johnson County teen who nearly died in a sky diving accident in Oklahoma less than a week ago is heading back to North Texas Friday.
If Italy asks the United States to extradite Amanda Knox, the decision will probably come down to Secretary of State John Kerry — and legal experts say it would be difficult for him to refuse the request.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena, Mont., planned to file for bankruptcy on Friday to pave the way for a $15 million settlement of lawsuits alleging clergy members sexually abused 362 children over five decades, according to diocese spokesman Dan Bartleson.
On Thursday, House Republicans released their so-called “standards” for immigration reform with a road map to citizenship nowhere to be found. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called it “fool’s gold” and “half-measures that would create a permanent class of non-citizens without access to green cards” (permanent residency).
A New York hiker was trapped near the peak of one of Hawaii’s volcanoes for two days as a fast-moving winter storm pummeled the island summit this week with blizzard-like conditions, according to the National Park Service.
About 50 people in southeast Mississippi were forced from their homes Friday after 18 cars of an 85-car train carrying chemicals derailed, officials said.The train traveling from Jackson, Miss., to Mobile, Ala., derailed at 9 a.m. local time (10 a.m. ET) Friday in New Augusta, Miss.
Human remains found stuffed in garbage bags on the side of Michigan roads are thought to be those of an adult male, police said Friday.St.
Sunday is the first outdoor, cold weather site Super Bowl in the game’s 48-year history. The frigid weather in the weeks leading up to the game and expected temps in the 20s and 30s won't stop the thousands of union members who are bringing you the game. On the scene at MetLife Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands or behind the scenes at many facilities in the Metro New York-New Jersey area, union members are making the nation’s national party day possible.
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is a leading voice on dismantling and privatizing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and the architect of legislation to do that. Today on Salon, Josh Eidelson talks with Postal Workers (APWU) President Mark Dimondstein, who has harsh words not only, as expected, for Issa, “a pure enemy of the Postal Service,” but for some Democrats, too, who he says have not stepped up to “defend the public good…[and] good jobs.”
In a major step toward protecting migrant workers recruited through foreign labor contractors, the California Senate on Thursday voted 34-0 to approve a bill that would put limits on the worst forms of coercion associated with international labor recruitment. Regardless of visa status, migrant workers face disturbingly common patterns of abuse in the recruitment process.
