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Attorney General Eric Holder says the number and the lethal nature of active-shooter incidents nationwide have soared over the past five years.
As part of the statewide "Raise the Wage" campaign, the nonpartisan grassroots coalition Working Families United for New Jersey, Inc., launched a series of billboards in an effort to reach more of the state's voters. The billboards will appear at 47 locations around the state in and near the state's most populated cities. The billboards ask voters to vote "yes" on Ballot Question #2 on Tuesday, Nov. 5. The measure, if approved, would raise the state's minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.25 and allow for an annual cost-of-living adjustment.
The 2,500 workers at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) remain on strike today after BART management’s last-minute contract demands forced the workers to the picket lines Friday morning. No new talks are scheduled, said Antonette Bryant, president of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1555, who told the San Francisco Chronicle:
A shooting was reported Monday at a Nevada middle school. Police said that the suspect had been “neutralized.”Police in Sparks, Nev., outside Reno, urged parents to stay away from the school. They told the parents to go to a nearby school to pick up their children.
Last week, AFL-CIO Policy Director and Special Counsel Damon Silvers made it clear the country's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO, opposes any benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. He said these cuts would harm seniors and that the motivations of those who favor the cuts are suspect, at best.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie abandoned the state's legal challenge to same-sex marriage on Monday, hours after gay couples began tying the knot in the wake of a court ruling.
A man who lived on the same block as the late Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro pleaded not guilty Monday to the murders of two women — cases that went cold until Castro was arrested and investigators took another look at the neighborhood.A judge set bail at $5 million for the man, Elias Acevedo Sr.
The estimates have come in that the federal government shutdown cost upward of $25 billion to the economy. That is shoe one. The other shoe about to drop is from the short-term nature of the budget deal itself. This is going to set up another rocky fourth quarter for the economy.
Official White House photographer Pete Souza married Patti Lease on Saturday in a small wedding hosted by President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden."The ceremony was performed by Chaplain [Stan] Fornea and they were joined by roughly 35 family members and friends," a White House official said.
A resident at a housing complex for senior citizens shot dead two women whom he blamed for the breakup of his relationship, according to Detroit police.Alleged gunman Mike Reda, 65, opened fire after an argument with his girlfriend, police told The Associated Press.
