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A family in Illinois is upset with their son's teacher after he was told to remove his father's U.S. Marines T-shirt.
Seven hair dressers from Indianapolis have taken a coworker to court claiming she cheated them out of their share of a $9.5 million Hoosier Lotto jackpot.
Last week we told you that paycheck deception and other anti-worker legislation formulated in the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) corporate-backed laboratories were moving the Missouri legislature. Now paycheck deception is close to a Senate vote and the Missouri AFL-CIO is urging Show-Me State voters to call their state senators—1-888-907-9711—and urge them to oppose S.B. 29.
With most veterans waiting nine months for the Department of Veterans Affairs to process disability claims, a congressional panel Wednesday chastised the VA and the Department of Defense each for breaking four years of vows to merge all troops’ medical records into a single electronic system to help crack that backlog.
More than half a century after she sat defiantly on an Alabama city bus, Rosa Parks has a permanent place in the U.S. Capitol — the first black woman to be honored with a statue there.
The U.S. is exploring ways to hasten Syria's political transition, according to Secretary of State John Kerry. President Bashar Assad 'needs to know that he can't shoot his way out of this.'
The AFL-CIO Executive Council called for a “high-wage” economic strategy, a new trade model and universal voter registration coupled with vigorous protection of the right to vote at its February meeting in Orlando, Fla., today. The Executive Council also addressed gender equality and commemorated the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington .In its statement on economic strategy, the council says, “There is something fundamentally wrong with the U.S. economy,” that has resulted in “the stagnation of wages and incomes that has crippled the American middle class for more than a generation.”
A winter storm coated a swath of the country from Missouri to Maine with snow Wednesday, and forecasters warned of difficult travel.
Bradley Manning, accused of being the source for classified documents published by WikiLeaks, will try to plead guilty to some charges against him, a source active in his defense confirmed.
Bradley Manning released classified documents to WikiLeaks to "spark a domestic debate on the role of our military and foreign policy," according to a statement he seeks to read in court.
