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A New Mexico State Police officer who fired at a minivan full of children during a traffic stop last month has been suspended.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka responds to the news of Former South African President Nelson Mandela's passing this evening.
For years, Republicans have attempted to use immigration as a wedge issue to drive voter turnout, with punitive policy proposals and increasingly vitriolic rhetoric coming from candidates from the top to the bottom or the Republican ticket. A growing body of evidence shows that their plans have backfired on them and that Latino voters, many of whom historical voted for Republicans or considered doing so, are being driven away from the party and continued pursuit of such an agenda threatens to make the GOP a permanent minority party.
MSNBC host Martin Bashir resigned Wednesday following controversy surrounding remarks he made on his show in November about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the president of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation," Bashir said in a statement.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said Thursday it's an "outright lie" that he tried to buy the video that sparked a crack-smoking scandal that has turned him into a political figurehead and a punchline.
Jameis Winston, the sensational quarterback of the top-ranked Florida State University football team and the leading candidate to win the Heisman Trophy, was cleared Thursday in a sexual assault investigation.A state prosecutor in Tallahassee, Willie Meggs, made the announcement.
If you think signing a pledge to uphold democracy isn't too much to ask of an organization made of elected officials, you would be wrong. At least when it comes to the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council.
One child was killed and four more injured on Thursday when a bus carrying elementary schoolchildren collided with a dump truck at a rural intersection in Idaho, west of Boise, a state police spokeswoman said.
Seeking to improve patient-care and work conditions at Community Health Systems (CHS) hospitals in four states, registered nurses held a national day of action at seven locations. According to a press release from National Nurses United (NNU), workers at the CHS-owned hospitals engaged in strikes, informational pickets and other events on Tuesday. The CHS hospitals repeatedly have been found to have violated the rights of their employees in ways that have endangered patients.
Jameis Winston, the sensational first-year quarterback of the top-ranked Florida State Seminoles and the leading candidate to win the Heisman Trophy, will learn Thursday whether he faces prosecution for sexual assault.
