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Thousands of New Yorkers sweltered without power and people in Maryland faced the prospect of going without water as a punishing heat wave tightened its grip on the Northeast.
The body of a missing 6-year-old girl, Ahlittia North, was found in a trash bin about 100 feet from her Louisiana home early Tuesday morning, officials said.
Holder has addressed the Zimmerman case numerous times since the Feb. 26, 2012 shooting in Sanford, Fla.That April, he said there would be a "high bar" to make it a Justice Department case.
A media company heir raised in what his lawyer called a wealthy but dysfunctional family must serve nine years in prison for allegedly stealing $3.6 million from his mother and disabled uncle.
Come check out a sneak preview of the documentary film "Citizen Koch" at a free screening at noon, Friday, July 19, at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C. The film by Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin explores the impact that the unlimited campaign spending by wealthy donors like the Koch brothers and corporations that was unleashed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling had in the fight over workers’ rights in Wisconsin.
Protests over the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin will continue all summer – starting with vigils in 100 cities on Saturday, followed by marches in Tallahassee, Fla.
Braving southern summer heat, humidity and waving signs, including “First the Great Recession, Now the Great Regression,” more than 2,000 North Carolinians gathered at the state Capitol in Raleigh at the 11th Moral Monday to protest extreme actions of the legislature and Gov. Pat McCrory (R).With the focus on women’s issues—especially women’s health care—more than 100 people, including about 70 women, were arrested for civil disobedience when they refused to leave the General Assembly building.
