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More than two decades after the body of a girl dubbed "Baby Hope" was discovered inside a cooler dumped in a wooded area in upper Manhattan, police say the child's mother has been found.
In what one veterans group calls an outrageous slight after the ultimate sacrifice, the shuttered federal government is withholding a $100,000 payment normally wired to relatives of soldiers killed at war.
The United States is in "a real state of crisis," Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Tuesday, as findings of a study showed that American adults fare poorly in mathematical and technical skills needed for a modern workplace compared to their counterparts in most other developed nations.
Since the media seems to think this whole thing is a bipartisan mess, I thought I'd get a second opinion. Take it away, senator. (At 4:00, she nails it.) And the name she names? It's a party. Not a person.
A Senator Gets Mad About the Shutdown and Starts Naming Names. About Time originally appeared on Upworthy's Politics channel.
In Massachussetts, AFGE locals are encouraging members to do volunteer work while they are locked out of their jobs. "Locked out of our offices, but not out of public service," says Carolyn Federoff, vice president of AFGE's Housing and Urban Development Council and an attorney with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Boston.
This Thursday, Georgetown University will partner with the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor to sponsor a panel, the “State of the Black Worker in America.” The panel is a follow-up to the Georgetown Public Policy Institute’s new study, Failure to Launch, which concluded the 2000s were a lost decade for America’s young workforce, particularly for workers of color.
The 9-year-old who sneaked onto a flight to Las Vegas may have had prior run-ins with authorities, according to a report in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Thousands of homes lost power, trees uprooted and there was localized flooding Tuesday after violent storms swept through the Northeast.The weather system was moving eastwards, having already dumped four feet of snow on the Plains, and bettered much of the region from Washington, D.C.
Editor's note: This story is one in a series on education issues featured at the 2013 Education Nation summit in New York City on Oct. 6-8. To learn more, please visit EducationNation.com.By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC NewsBOSTON, Mass.
CLEVELAND, Ohio - A former fugitive accused of operating a $100 million cross-country scam collecting donations for Navy veterans shifted money among various accounts and stole millions through ATM cash withdrawals and checks made out to himself, prosecutors said.
