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A national fraternity said Thursday said it's suspending some activities for all chapters after a freshman pledge from Baruch College was killed during a "prohibited" hazing activity over the weekend.
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM) filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the Labor Department to ensure that migrant workers get fair wages. Earlier this year, the department instructed employers that they were required to pay H-2B visa workers market rate wages, but CDM says recently the department reversed this policy and told employers they could pay these workers wages below market value. The lawsuit seeks to overturn this policy change.
A man tried to drive around a railroad crossing bar in Virginia and was struck by an Amtrak train barreling at almost 80 mph on Thursday, authorities said. The man was flown to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.The Virginia State Police said that alcohol was a factor in the collision.
This time of year, many people hold temporary or part-time jobs helping retailers and other businesses with the heavy demands of the busy holiday shopping season. It’s a great opportunity to gain valuable work experience, get a foot in the door for long-term employment or just earn extra cash.Workers not familiar with this type of short-term arrangement may have questions related to their employment.
This time of year college students cram for final exams. They get graded in a very stark right-or-wrong fashion. Splitting the difference between a bad guess and the right answer is not rewarded. Unfortunately, Washington is locked in such a crazy struggle. Five years after Wall Street’s fall, the economy still is more than 1 million payroll jobs short of where things stood at the last peak of the labor market. Median household income is still below the peak, meaning more than half of America's households are behind where they were five years ago. The poverty level of America’s children is higher, and state and local revenues only recovered last fiscal year, leaving hundreds of thousands of fewer teachers and larger class sizes for our children. Our nation’s total output is more than $1 trillion less than where it would be if we could get to full employment. Clearly, the right answer to this set of problems is for massive government action to kick start the economy to address the woes of the American people.
The health director who approved the release of President Obama’s birth certificate has died in a plane crash, Hawaiian officials said Thursday.Loretta Fuddy died after the Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft she was travelling on went down shortly after leaving Kalaupapa Airport at around 3:15 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Families and friends of the 26 people killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School gathered in the nation’s capital on Thursday to honor their loved ones through prayer and volunteer work nearly one year after the Newtown massacre.
One passenger died and eight other people were rescued after a small plane crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from an Hawaiian island on Wednesday.
A former New Orleans police officer who was convicted three years ago of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a man after Hurricane Katrina was found not guilty Wednesday by a second jury. "I took the action I had to take," David Warren told reporters after the verdict.
A Montana man whose newlywed wife pushed him to his death off a cliff said on the morning he died that he'd canceled plans to go kayaking and golfing because his wife told him she had a "surprise" for him, his father-in-law and a friend both testified Wednesday.
