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President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ty Michael Carter on Monday afternoon, making the cavalry scout only the fifth living service member from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan to receive the nation’s highest award for courage.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will be one of the keynote speakers at the AFL-CIO 2013 National Convention in Los Angeles from Sept. 8–11. Here are 12 key quotes from her that show why she is a champion of the 99%.
We’re just a week from Labor Day 2013—the day each year that we celebrate the incredible contributions of America’s working people. On our new “You Worked Hard. You’ve Earned It” Labor Day website, you can find:
A California wildfire that has scorched an area roughly the size of Chicago near Yosemite National Park was 15 percent contained Monday morning — a jump from 7 percent the previous night, officials said.
An Army soldier who ignored his own safety to take out the enemy and rescue a wounded brother-in-arms during a dramatic ambush by hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in 2009 will receive the Medal of Honor on Monday.Staff Sgt.
A second teenager was arrested Monday in the beating death of an 88-year-old World War II veteran in Spokane, Wash., and the people who helped him hide out were also busted.
Demolition crews on Monday tore into the houses in Cleveland next door to where Ariel Castro bound, raped and tortured three women during the decade that he held them captive.
Union leaders and activists from around the country in Los Angeles on Sept. 8 for the AFL-CIO Convention will get a close look at a regional labor movement with membership numbers holding steady or even slightly increasing.Compare this with much of the United States where the percentage of workers represented by unions is dropping rapidly and persistently.
The Farmers' Almanac is using words like "piercing cold," "bitterly cold" and "biting cold" to describe the upcoming winter. And if its predictions are right, the first outdoor Super Bowl in years will be a messy "Storm Bowl.
