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Proponents of California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that stopped same-sex marriage in the state, are pursuing an aggressive legal strategy, hoping to revive the ban that state officials have declared dead.In the month since the U.S.

LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas police officer, who was rescuing a hiker stranded in an off-limits area of a mountain northwest of the city, died after falling from a helicopter hoist line Monday night.

Federal safety authorities recommended Tuesday that all U.S. cars, trucks and buses come equipped with technology that would allow them to "talk" to one another to help avoid accidents.

New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress in 2011 after a sexting scandal, admitted Tuesday that his shenanigans continued even after he stepped down."Some of these things happened before my resignation.

New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress in 2011 amid a sexting scandal, admitted Tuesday to more sexually charged Internet shenanigans.

New York's LaGuardia Airport was fully reopened Tuesday after a disabled Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 skidded to a hard landing Monday evening as its front landing gear collapsed, authorities said.

Former congressman and current New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner admitted Tuesday that his sexually charged Internet shenanigans continued even after he resigned from Congress in 2011 amid a scandal over explicit online exchanges with women.

The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since July 24, 2009, and tomorrow, in a national day of action in more than 30 cities across the country, a broad coalition of labor, faith, civil rights, community and policy activists will call on Congress to raise the minimum wage.Click here to sign our petition asking Congress to raise the minimum wage.

Thirty-eight-year-old Gloria Isabel Ramírez has worked in Colombia’s flower industry since the age of 14. Today, the single mother of one makes $10 a day, works seven days a week and lives in her town’s poorest neighborhood, located less than an hour’s drive from the nation’s capital, Bogotá.  

A 28-year-old mother was identified as the second victim of a triple homicide in a Cleveland suburb where the bodies of three women were found wrapped in plastic bags.