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BEIJING — China aims to launch its next unmanned lunar probe in 2017, with the goal of collecting and bringing home lunar samples, an official said on Monday after the country's first rover landed successfully on the moon.
A federal judge in Washington ruled Monday that the National Security Agency’s program of gathering data on all telephone calls made in the United States is unconstitutional.The judge, Richard Leon of U.S. District Court, an appointee of President George W.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida judge ordered Raoul Weil, a former high-ranking UBS banker charged with tax fraud by U.S. authorities, freed on $9 million bond Monday in federal court in Fort Lauderdale.
MAINZ, Germany -- A German couple who authorities say organized hundreds “gangbang” sex parties failed to pay almost $1.4 million in taxes and claimed state unemployment benefits at the time, investigators told NBC News.
As legalization of marijuana grows, so too is the outlook of companies catering to the pot business.One such firm, WeedMaps.com, a website that allows users to rate and review medical marijuana dispensaries, expects to post $30 million in revenue this year and increase that by 20 percent next year.
Taking clear aim at China's growing aggressiveness in territorial disputes with its smaller neighbors, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced Monday that the United States will boost maritime security assistance to the countries of Southeast Asia amid rising tensions with Beijing.
Joslyn Williams, president of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO, sent out an action alert on Monday calling on Washington, D.C., residents to call council member Marion Barry and ask him to vote to keep proposed legislation increasing the minimum wage and expanding paid sick days laws strong. The D.C. Council is set to vote Tuesday on increasing the minimum wage and providing tipped workers with paid sick days, but the National Restaurant Association is trying to weaken the paid sick days law by removing protections for workers who speak out when their employers violate the law. Barry has been targeted by the association in hopes that he will push to change the bill to weaken workers' rights, according to the Metropolitan Washington Council. Williams and other working families advocates in the District of Columbia are asking area residents to call Barry's office and urge him to vote in favor of the rights of workers and not extremist corporate interests.
That's the question Nancy Becker, an American employed by Amazon in Germany since 2001, asked as she trekked to Seattle this week to stand up for the rights of workers in the online retailer's "fulfillment centers." The centers—little more than warehouses where workers are faced with near-impossible workloads for minimal pay—are the subject of rallies in Seattle and Germany on Monday. Becker traveled from her workplace in Germany, “I’m coming to Seattle to dare Jeff Bezos to try working as a picker for a single week. I’m sure he would not survive.”
A United Methodist minister punished for officiating at his gay son's wedding says he wants to stay with the church and push for change."I cannot voluntarily surrender my credentials because I am a force now for many, for tens of thousands of LGBT members in our church," said the Rev.
Parts of the Midwest and Northeast can’t catch a break from wintry weather, as a fast-moving, low pressure system began moving in from Canada on Monday, bringing with it more snow on the tail of the weekend’s major winter storm.
