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An Ohio man who raped and stabbed to death a pregnant woman became the first person executed with a previously untested two-drug cocktail on Thursday.
In 2010, I sat across the table from Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Barbara Weisel, who was responsible for negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the mega-regional free-trade treaty among Vietnam, Malaysia, and 10 other Pacific Rim countries that President Barack Obama’s administration wants to conclude in the coming weeks. At the time, I was senior policy adviser for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor – a position that made me the top congressional staff member responsible for upholding labor standards in international trade treaties.
A special committee investigating the manufactured traffic jam at the George Washington Bridge could issue its first round of subpoenas Thursday to allies of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Pot-smoking travelers at one Colorado airport who need to ditch their stash before boarding can deposit their marijuana in an "amnesty box.
The social compact is gone, said UAW President Bob King yesterday in Detroit, and if we want a growing middle class again, we need to restore it.
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
Federal agents could be barred from launching investigations based on religion, ancestry, sexual orientation or gender under expanded rules against profiling being considered by the Department of Justice, a government official said.
A gunman killed a member of staff and a customer at an Indiana grocery store before being shot dead by police, officials said early Thursday.The man had his gun pointed at a third person when officers arrived at Martin's Super Market in the city of Elkhart, Indiana State Police Sgt.
A gunman killed a member of staff and a customer at an Indiana grocery store before being shot dead by police, officials said early Thursday.Both victims were women and were found 10 to 12 aisles apart at Martin's Super Market in the city of Elkhart, Indiana State Police Sgt.
The majority of educators across the United States are not adequately trained to deal with a crisis such as a school gunman, experts say, in a week when another school shooting — and the teacher who prevented it from being worse — made headlines.
