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CLEVELAND — A mysterious defendant in a $100 million, cross-country Navy veterans charity fraud case was convicted Thursday of racketeering, theft, money laundering and other charges.
I’ve worked at Walmart in Baker, La., for eight years, and I’ve been a Walmart shareholder since I started. Times are tough for Walmart customers, but I want you to know that times are tough for many Walmart associates, too. We are stretching our paychecks to pay our bills and support our families. Many of us are not getting as many hours as we used to and that makes it even harder. Now the new associates in my store are not even hired as permanent employees. They are hired as temps with no benefits—not even a discount card.
"Independent," "nonpartisan"...don't make us laugh. You may have heard of the State Policy Network (SPN) think-tank groups, but did you know SPN and its state affiliates are major drivers of the American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC's) anti-working families agenda? According to a new in-depth investigation by the Center for Media and Democracy and Progress Now, SPN not only drives ALEC's corporate agenda but also has deep ties to the Koch brothers and a national right-wing network of funders.
The organization that coordinates transplants across the United States said Thursday that an offer by a death row inmate to donate his organs — which led Ohio's governor to delay his execution — is "ethically troubling.
Another large sinkhole has formed in Florida, causing parts of two homes to collapse and swallowing a boat and a backyard pool.The sinkhole in Dunedin, Fla., erupted early Thursday morning between the two houses, and by 8:30 a.m.
On the first day of his sentencing hearing, Whitey Bulger was called a "rat," a "coward," "Satan" and a "sad, lonely, irrelevant old man." For part two, he'll learn if he's getting a new label: lifer.
Grace, dignity and respect. Those are the words that embody Marlene Champion's work as a lifelong domestic worker and caregiver. Champion has been a domestic worker since she was 17. Born in Barbados, Champion came to the United States when she was 30 to make a better life for her children. Later in life, Champion has worked on many campaigns advocating for domestic workers on the local, state and federal levels.
A year after a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service is dealing with a new embarrassment after a senior supervisor was removed from his position for trying to retrieve a bullet he left in a woman's hotel room, a source told NBC News.
A seven-month-old baby boy died after being shot in the the head and his father was also killed in an apparent ambush on their car near one of New Orleans’ main Mississippi River crossing bridges late Wednesday, police said.
A massive stockpile of elephant ivory stacked in a warehouse north of Denver is set to be crushed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday as part of an escalating push to stamp out illegal wildlife trafficking around the world.
