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Gunfire was reported Friday at Los Angeles International Airport, and federal authorities told NBC News that a Transportation Security Administration employee had been wounded.At least one shot was fired at Terminal 3, the federal authorities said.
Next week the Senate is expected to vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), federal legislation that would prohibit workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity/expression, currently one of the few legal forms of workplace discrimination. The AFL-CIO historically has supported this legislation, and at the most recent quadrennial national convention, delegates passed a resolution reaffirming support for ENDA and rejecting any form of workplace discrimination.
Police in Grand Junction, Colorado, are seeking a man who allegedly peppered sprayed a woman in the face and then stole her monkey.
For 58 years, the doctor was in, charging just five dollars per visit in the small town of Rushville, Ill.Now, the man whose services cost so little but who was treasured so much by his community has closed his doors and retired for good.Dr.
Spurred on by rousing speeches and favorable opinion polls, National Nurses United delegates led hundreds of activists into D.C. this week to lobby for a tax on financial transactions. The “Robin Hood Tax” would impose a tiny tax on each financial transaction—the buying and selling of stocks, bonds, derivatives and other financial instruments—and raise some $350 billion yearly that could be redirected to human needs.
A punishing storm system pushed into the Northeast on Friday and threatened major cities with power outages, downed trees and a nasty morning commute, a day after it forced four states to postpone trick-or-treating.
Dozens of police cars chased a motorist through the streets of Los Angeles late Thursday, before the suspect struck a tree and barricaded himself inside the vehicle.
A major storm moved towards the U.S. Northeast early Friday with meteorologists predicting winds powerful enough to create power outages.
A North Carolina man was ordered held on $1.5 million bond Thursday after authorities discovered 24 bombs inside his barricaded, security-camera-guarded home.Erik Rudolph Arnebold, 37, was arrested Wednesday outside his home in Wilmington, N.C.
