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Two suspects have been charged in last month’s shooting death of a 15-year-old Chicago girl who performed at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, police announced Monday night.
The mother of Chicago gun-violence victim Hadiya Pendleton will be in the audience for Tuesday night's State of the Union address — and she is expecting a flood of mixed emotions.
As Pope Benedict XVI’s prepares to step down, his legacy is being viewed through the prism of how he handled the child sex abuse crisis, with some observers saying he dealt with it aggressively while others calling his response to the scandals “woefully inadequate."
Fugitive ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner was officially charged Monday afternoon with murdering a Riverside, Calif., police officer — and special circumstances that could result in the death penalty.
Theirs are the faces behind the numbers. A hard-working college student shot in her prized car. A fun-loving 2-year-old accidentally shot by his brother. An aging rocker killed for a thousand bucks. Meet some of the victims of one long weekend's gun violence chronicled by NBC News.
Guests at the Borgata in Atlantic City won't even have to get out of bed in order to place a bet starting Feb. 18.
Today at the Trans-Atlantic Agenda for Shared Prosperity conference held at the AFL-CIO, Janet Yellen, vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, talked about the reasons why the recent economic downturn has been painful particularly for America's workers and what the Federal Reserve's role is in reaching maximum employment.
More than 2,700 prized dogs will be on display at the 137th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Two new breeds, the Russell Terrier and the Treeing Walker Coonhound, will be introduced to the competition, which features dogs from all 50 states and several foreign countries.
In just a few weeks, the nation will be facing yet another manufactured fiscal crisis when a series of harsh across-the-board federal spending cuts in education, defense and all government operations go into effect unless Congress repeals them. Known as “sequestration,” economists say these cuts would imperil the fragile economic recovery and cost as many as 1 million American workers their jobs. Yet Republicans are making threats to let those cuts to take effect on March 1 unless Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare benefits are cut or drastic cuts are made to vital services.
The mother of Chicago gun-violence victim Hadiya Pendleton will attend the State of the Union address as a guest of First Lady Michelle Obama, White House aides said Monday.
