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The grandmother of a 3-year-old who was among 13 people injured in a shooting Thursday night in Chicago made a tearful plea Friday for an end to gun violence in her city."It needs to stop.
At least 11 people have been shot, five of them fatally, in Chicago since Friday, police said.The violent night came just one day after 13 people were injured in shooting at a Chicago park.
Income inequality—the major gap between the rich and average working families—is real, inflicts pain and is created by bad economic policy. Stay tuned for former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich's film, "Inequality For All," coming to theaters this month that explains how things got so unequal in the United States and what we can do to change that. In the meantime, here's a humorous video, via Upworthy's Workonomics channel, that shows even primates understand inequality.
HONOLULU -- On two occasions since last year, state inspectors saw molasses dripping from the same spot where a pipe leaked up to 1,400 tons of the sugary substance into Honolulu Harbor earlier this month and killed thousands of fish.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee -- A Tennessee couple was indicted on Friday for the shooting deaths of a woman and three teens in a robbery during a pot deal at a resort community in the state, officials said.
Three days after John F. Kennedy was sworn in as president, a nuclear bomb that could have devastated much of the U.S. East Coast nearly exploded when the B-52 bomber carrying it broke up over North Carolina, according to a declassified internal report published Friday.
A woman whose uncontrollable hiccupping brought her national TV appearances was convicted of first-degree murder Friday in Clearwater, Fla.Jennifer Mee, 22, was accused of masterminding a 2010 robbery, luring a man to an apartment supposedly to buy marijuana, NBC station WFLA of Tampa reported.
Black women are joining traditionally white sororities at the University of Alabama amid efforts to end racial segregation within Greek-letter social groups.
Severe damage from the deadly floods that swept Colorado could keep residents of one town out of their homes for up to six months, officials said.E.
Three-year-old Bryan Maenner arrived at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia Thursday night to watch his first Eagles game with his twin brother, Brandon.It's the twins first game, and for Bryan it maybe his last.
