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Some 220 workers employed by a federal contractor that runs food operations at six Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C., have won union representation with UNITE HERE and will begin bargaining for better wages and working conditions early next year.

By Checkey Beckford, NBCNewYork.comA special education teacher in New Jersey has been suspended after a video appears to have captured him cursing and yelling at a student.

Thirty small dogs were removed last week from a one-bedroom North Chicago apartment that authorities said was "covered with animal waste and extreme insect infestation.

It wasn’t mega, but he’s a millionaire just the same.The owner of a gift shop in California — he bought the place only four months ago — gets roughly $1 million for selling one of two known winning tickets in the $636 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot.

Dec. 18 is International Day of Solidarity with Migrants and marks the date the United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. To commemorate this day, we have compiled personal stories of the immigrant experience at the AFL-CIO. As you’ll see, our colleagues’ collective experiences are a tapestry of the immigrant experience. 

A late fall wildfire that has destroyed homes in California’s scenic Big Sur region is now 20 percent contained, authorities said early Wednesday.

A witness has described the moment a gunman opened fire inside a Nevada medical office, killing one person and wounding two others before turning the weapon on himself.The wounded victims were in surgery, and one of them is a doctor, the Nevada Department of Public Safety said late Tuesday.

Commuters in the Northeast were expected to face a messy Wednesday morning after black ice advisories were issued for New York City and much of the tri-state area and yet more snow hit New England.

A gunman opened fire inside a Nevada medical office killing one person and wounding two others before turning the weapon on himself, officials said on Tuesday.The wounded victims were in surgery, and one of them is a doctor, the Nevada Department of Public Safety said.

Commuters in the Northeast were expected to face a messy Wednesday morning after black ice advisories were issued for New York City and much of the tri-state area and yet more snow hit New England.