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NEW YORK — Bomb attacks of the kind that tore through mass transit sites in Russia ahead of the upcoming Sochi Olympics are a top concern of security officials preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl, the head of the New Jersey State Police said on Wednesday.
More than 200 Postal Workers (APWU) members and supporters demonstrated outside Staples stores in San Francisco and San Jose on Tuesday, challenging an arrangement between the company and the U.S. Postal Service that staffs “postal” counters in Staples stores with non-postal employees. The deal threatens good-paying union jobs and jeopardizes public post offices.
A hoax. A joke. Fool's Gold. That's how AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka characterized an emerging House GOP immigration proposal that didn't include green cards or a road map to citizenship in an interview today with the Washington Post's David Nakamura.
They made it.An illness-ridden cruise ship returned home Wednesday, an abbreviated end to a brutal voyage in which 600 passengers and crew were struck down by a fast-moving stomach bug.The Royal Caribbean liner The Explorer of the Seas pulled into port in Bayonne, N.J., just after 1 p.m.
The Coast Guard is searching for a crew member of a cruise ship who fell overboard off the eastern coast of Mexico.The crewman, identified as Inyoman Bagiada, 45, went overboard from the Celebrity Constellation at about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Coast Guard said.
An illness-ridden cruise ship has returned home, an abbreviated end to a brutal voyage in which 600 passengers and crew were struck down by a fast-moving stomach bug.The Royal Caribbean liner The Explorer of the Seas pulled into port in Bayonne, N.J., just past 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Pennsylvania Republicans are pushing falsely titled "paycheck protection" legislation that would take away rights from workers and keep them from having good wages and benefits. The legislation would hamper workers’ ability to organize unions and represent themselves in negotiations with employers, leaving them open to any number of assaults on salary, benefits and working conditions. The legislation would prevent the deduction of union dues from public employee paychecks and is supported by groups related to the infamous Koch brothers, wealthy extremists who are behind many attacks against working families across the nation.
A man was arrested Wednesday after police found at least 300 pythons slithering around inside his Southern California home.Police and animal control officers served a search warrant Wednesday at 7 a.m. PT on the Santa Ana residence after neighbors complained of a foul odor coming from the house.
Police and animal control officers are investigating reports of several hundred snakes slithering inside a home in Southern California after neighbors complained of a "foul odor" coming from the residence.
Thousands of people were stranded Wednesday — some of them sitting 18 hours or more on highways brought to a standstill across Atlanta — one day after a rare winter storm swept across an unprepared South.Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said he did not know how many people were still stuck.
