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The nation’s unemployment dropped to 7% in November from October’s 7.3%, and the economy added 203,000 new jobs last month compared to the 204,000 new jobs in October, according to figures released this morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A deep freeze gripped almost the entire United States on Friday — pushing temperatures to 20 below in Wyoming, emptying stores in Texas of firewood and threatening to knock out power across an ice-glazed swath of the South and Midwest.
Batkid will return to Gotham City -- err... San Francisco.This time, it won't be to arrest the Penguin or to capture the Riddler.
It’s common knowledge that humor and the corporate right wing are pretty much mutually exclusive—at least intentionally. A lame attempt by a shadowy group linked to Walmart’s former chief lobbyist to parody striking Walmart workers as nothing more than lazy beer-guzzling, left-wing jobless twenty-somethings, proves that comedy should be left to the professionals.
An Arkansas man was in custody Thursday on felony theft and identity fraud charges after sheriff's deputies who'd stopped him for a traffic violation searched his car and found checks, credit cards, Social Security numbers and bank records for dozens of people — some of whom are dead.
Governors in at least five states declared emergencies Thursday in anticipation of an arctic blast that threatens 32 million people in the South and the Midwest with snow, ice and bone-chilling temperatures plummeting by as much as 50 degrees.
Governors in at least five states declared emergencies Thursday in anticipation of an arctic blast that threatens 32 million people in the South and the Midwest with snow, ice and bone-chilling temperatures plummeting by as much as 50 degrees.
This week, President Obama delivered an address, starting a dialogue on how the long path to America’s current level of inequality has led us to the wrong place. The president said that Americans’ frustration with Washington is, “rooted in the nagging sense that no matter how hard they work, the deck is stacked against them.” His timing coincided with the nationwide spread of strikes by fast food workers, showing they cannot wait for Washington to act on raising minimum wages. Unfortunately, the day also saw the loss of Nelson Mandela, a world class standard bearer for justice. The passing of Mandela is a time to reflect on how the world can change if people just stand up, eventually justice wins out.
An arctic blast that threatens 32 million people will knock out power by coating parts of the South and the Midwest with ice and send temperatures sinking by as much as 50 degrees Thursday, forecasters warned.
Pods of 35 stranded pilot whales were moving into deeper waters of Florida’s Everglades National Park, raising hopes for their survival, officials said Thursday.
