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Palo Alto's fire chief is defending his agency's use of a countywide emergency alert system intended for floods, fires, earthquakes and major crimes to text residents information about a charity pancake breakfast.
A salute by an Army Ranger — hospitalized with serious wounds after a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan — is warming hearts after being posted online, moving his wife to declare him a "badass" and "the epitome of what a man and an American and a soldier is."Cpl.
For generations, a college degree has been considered a path to the middle class. Millions of Americans have attended college with increasing frequency, making a down payment on their future with the promises of higher education.
Lawyers for a Naval Academy midshipman facing court-martial for sexual assault claims are now part of a push for the Naval Academy superintendent, who oversees the case, to recuse himself from the proceedings.
The nation is just hours away from a crucial default deadline, and Washington remains muddled in a risky legislative process that has the world holding its collective breath.Watch here for live updates, photos and videos throughout the day.
Lawrence Javier said he had a simple message he wanted to deliver to Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) as he marched outside the lawmaker’s Las Vegas office Tuesday.The member of Heat and Frost Insulators Local 135, who was laid off six months ago and called back to work on construction of the McCarran Airport tower for two days before the shutdown halted the project, told Las Vegas Review Journal:I want to go back to work. It’s very simple. Without work, without money, I can’t feed my kids. It’s a simple message.
Let Washington worry about the details and the political intrigue. If you want to know how the debt ceiling drama is going to end, watch Wall Street — and Wall Street seems to think it’s almost a done deal.
Ohio lawmakers are set to consider a bill that would provide Ariel Castro's three kidnapping victims at least $25,000 for each year they were held captive, plus other benefits.
President Barack Obama yesterday told the Spanish-language Los Angeles affiliate of Univision that “the day after” the budget and debt ceiling debacle is resolved, he will push for passage of comprehensive immigration reform.
In addition to short-changing employees and customers, the cheapness of the fast-food industry, which nationally pays its core workers an average of $8.69, leaves taxpayers paying nearly $7 billion annually. That's the major conclusion of a new report, Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Jobs in the Fast-Food Industry, from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The majority of employees at fast-food restaurants are paid so poorly that they are forced to enroll in public assistance programs, despite the industry making $200 billion a year.
