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The Washington Post and reporter Niraj Chokshi provide a sobering look at the 1.3 million people who lost emergency unemployment benefits last weekend when House Republicans left for the holiday break without renewing the aid for jobless workers.
Police obtained a search warrant overnight and are continuing the investigation into the death of four people, including two children, at a Fontana, Calif., home Monday night.
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
In the United States last year, the pay ratio of CEOs to the average worker was 354:1. That means CEOs in the U.S. on average are paid 354 times more than the average worker. In Australia, that ratio is 93:1.
New York City partygoers celebrating New Year's Eve are facing bitter temperatures -- but look set to avoid a flurry of new-year snow, meteorologists said Tuesday.
This is the way their worlds ended, not with a bang … but a rim shot.
A decade after Saddam Hussein's capture and seven years since his execution, his legacy in the United States is relegated to random displays of memorabilia: a bathroom sink in Mississippi, a life-sized replica in Florida of the uniformed Iraqi leader holding a Mars bar.
For 103 years, Boy Scout Troop 101, one of the oldest west of the Mississippi River, has called Pomona First Baptist Church home. But that relationship will end on New Year’s Day when the church will sever ties with the troop over the Boy Scouts of America’s decision to admit openly gay youth.
A mile-long train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded Monday after colliding with another train in North Dakota.
Theories are cropping up to explain an intricate circular pattern discovered in a field of grass in California early Monday.An aerial photographer spotted the giant crop circle in Salinas, Calif., from above on Monday.
