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Harvard University ordered students to evacuate four buildings on campus Monday after what the school said were unconfirmed reports of explosives.The school said on its official Twitter feed that the four buildings were the Science Center, Thayer Hall, Sever Hall and Emerson Hall.
We're seeing it happen all over the country. Walmart associates are speaking out against erratic hours and low wages, fast-food workers are striking for a living wage, and in states and cities all over the United States, workers are taking action to raise the minimum wage.
The $111.05 New York restaurant receipt includes a $1,000 tip and the words "god bless!" scrawled across it. The handle @tipsforjesus is stamped next to an illegible signature.
A man serving 40 years for raping his eight-year-old daughter has lost his bid to be released from prison, even though the alleged victim has insisted for the past 15 years that the crime never happened, and that she only said it had because her drug-addicted mother threatened to beat her.
A Crown Point, Ind., woman went from being a newlywed to a widow in fewer than eight hours Saturday after her new husband was struck and killed while assisting another motorist.Nikki Knight and William Knight were on their way to a hotel at about 11:45 p.m.
A new poll from the Pew Research Center shows that millennial women, who are between 18 and 32 years old, recognize that while women have made gains in the workforce in recent decades, many of the roadblocks that have limited the careers of previous generations of women will cause them problems, too. Women who have entered the workforce in the past decade start off more equal to men in terms of pay than any previous generation and they are more educated than both earlier generations of women and men of the same age group. But they believe that, like earlier generations, they will fall further behind men in terms of pay equity once they have children.
Israeli, Lebanese and U.N. officials said they would meet on Monday to defuse tensions after a Lebanese soldier shot dead an Israeli counterpart along the border between the two countries, Israel's defense minister said.
"Survivor: Blood vs. Water" was full of surprises this season, but the cycle ended on a rather unsurprising note when Tyson Apostol, who dominated the game, was named the show’s 27th winner on Sunday.
Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who found stardom playing naive wives in Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Rebecca" and also was featured in films by Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang and Nicholas Ray, died Sunday. She was 96.
