Another provision in the MA law requires that women receive pay equal to that of men in the same positions as them, as well as men who do work “comparable” to theirs.
The 23-year-old mother barricaded herself in her apartment with her five-year-old son earlier in the week during a heated standoff with police during which she brandished a shotgun at officers outside her building. And then the second video shows her talking to her 5 year old son...
New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton is resigning next month, it was announced on Tuesday amid a second day of protests outside of New York’s City Hall calling for his departure.
The Klan hoped the attacks would derail the movement – the marches had wrung concessions from local leaders and the state had begun integrating schools days before the bombing – but historians contend the church bombing marked a turning point in the civil rights...
President Barack Obama has shortened prison sentences for 214 federal prisoners, The Associated Press reports. According to the White House, it’s the “most grants in a single day since at least 1900”.
A bus veered off a central California highway before dawn Tuesday and struck a pole that sliced the vehicle almost in half, killing five people and sending at least five more to hospitals, some with lost limbs, authorities said. He said the sign pole sheared through the center of...
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of US diplomatic relations with Singapore, the country’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is joining President Barack Obama at a state dinner in the White House on Tuesday evening – the first held for a Singaporean leader since 1985. He...
Although Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February left the Court with only eight justices, five votes are still required to grant a stay under its rules.
Donald Trump is joking that he wants a crying baby ejected from his rally in northern Virginia. Zach Roday, a Ryan campaign spokesman, said the speaker hasn’t asked for Trump’s endorsement and is “confident in a victory next week regardless”. “He...
The blaze, about the size of San Francisco, has also scared away tourists who are cancelling bookings after fire officials warned that crews will likely be battling a wildfire raging in steep, forested ridges just to the north for another month. “They don’t know if it...
First, and perhaps most significantly, a partially divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit invalidated a 2013 North Carolina law that required voter ID and limited early voting, based on evidence that the law was created to reduce African American voter...