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Two experienced climbers have been trapped for two days by an ice storm near the peak of a 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado and have sent texts saying they’re at risk of hypothermia and need help.
A 19-year-old man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday for the beating death of a 62-year-old Chicago man that was recorded on a cell phone and uploaded to Facebook.
Three police officers have been seriously hurt after falling off a transport truck leaving the massive boardwalk fire in Seaside Park, N.J.The incident happened at O Street and Ocean Avenue in Seaside Park around 9:30 a.m. Friday.
Nonprofit organizations throughout the state of Colorado are calling on fellow citizens for assistance as they struggle with record rainfall and floods that have claimed at least three lives so far.
California made history last night. With the support of California’s unions, the legislature voted to raise the state’s minimum wage to $10, the highest minimum wage in the country. The wage will be implemented in two steps: an increase to $9 per hour in July of next year, followed by another $1 increase to $10 in January of 2016. Gov. Jerry Brown has agreed to sign the bill, A.B. 10, authored by Assembly member Luis Alejo.
In its new briefing paper, A Cautionary Tale: The True Cost of Austerity and Inequality in Europe, Oxfam compares Europe’s current austerity measures to the failed “structural adjustment” programs imposed on developing countries by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in the 1980s and 1990s. The conclusion? “Europe is facing a lost decade. An additional 15 [million] to 25 million people across Europe could face the prospect of living in poverty by 2025 if austerity measures continue,” says the report.
Authorities asked the public for any photos or videos that may have captured the early stages of the roaring boardwalk fire that tore through at least four blocks of New Jersey shoreline, even as ruins continued to smolder in the two towns staggered by Superstorm Sandy.
Earlier this summer, we reported on a new trend—especially prevalent in low-wage industries—where more and more workers aren’t getting paper paychecks or direct deposits to their checking accounts, but instead are finding their wages on prepaid cards. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) warned employers yesterday about the misuse of prepaid payroll cards and that they cannot require workers receive their wages via prepaid cards.
While many of the country's most active working family advocates were in Los Angeles for the AFL-CIO national convention, the rest of the country continued to operate, with legislation, elections and judicial decisions of significant importance continuing to move forward. Here are eight stories you might have missed while the media's attention was focused on the convention.
JUNEAU, Alaska -- North America's tallest peak, Alaska's Mount McKinley, may have been taken down a notch. An effort to update decades-old maps using airplane-mounted radar technology showed the mountain, called Denali by locals, stands at 20,237 feet.
