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A new campaign, launched by the New York State AFL-CIO, asks government leaders in Albany to stop thinking of corporations first and instead to focus on the needs of New Yorkers, to shift their policy proposals in the direction of 'Making NY work for hardworking New Yorkers." In addition to launching a new website and online video, the organization is asking the state's working families to sign a five-point pledge and take action to support the campaign.
The 911 recordings from the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., were released Wednesday, less than two weeks before the first anniversary of the tragedy, after state officials lost a fight to keep them under wraps.
A Georgia man found himself in handcuffs after charging his electric car outside his son's middle school in what police alleged was unlawful “theft” of county power worth roughly five cents.
New revelations about the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) illustrate the need for greater transparency by corporations for their political and lobbying spending. The internal documents released by The Guardian show that ALEC has targeted dozens of large corporations for fundraising in 2013, including what ALEC calls “prodigal son” corporations that had previously dropped their membership because of the organization’s controversial positions.
Rescue crews were en route to help a pod of 20 to 30 pilot whales stranded in shallow waters in a remote area of Everglades National Park on Wednesday, officials said.
An enormous, brutal mass of arctic air is shoving south over most of the United States — threatening 32 million people for the rest of the week with snow, ice, wind and extraordinary drops in the temperature.
A “big ice threat” could cause power outages across parts of the Midwest over the next two days as a storm that dumped as much as 30 inches of snow in some locations churns east.
A “big ice threat” could cause power outages across parts of the Midwest over the next two days as winter storm Cleon continues to blast a wide swath of the country.“It could be significant with lots of power outages,” Kevin Noth, a lead meteorologist with the Weather Channel, told NBC News.
An associate dean at the University of Virginia pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal child pornography charges, some of which he is accused of having paid for through his campus email account.Michael G.
Two skydivers were killed Tuesday when they collided in midair over southern Arizona, authorities told NBC News.The skydivers struck another about 4 p.m. (6 p.m.
