Union workers for a Chicago faucet-maker filed a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board accusing their employer of limiting them to 6 minutes a day for personal bathroom use, CNN reported on Tuesday. The workers, part of Teamsters local...

SINGAPORE (AFP) – Singapore has banned a volume of the long-running Archie comic series because its depiction of same-sex marriage was deemed to breach local “social norms”, the city-state’s media watchdog said Wednesday. Archie: The Married...

By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran officials on Wednesday called for U.S. aid to Central America to reduce violence that has fueled a surge of child migration to the United States, with the foreign minister calling for a...

Billionaire activists Charles and David Koch have financed and participated in the making of programs designed to steer high-school students in Georgia, Kansas, and Missouri toward embracing conservative business principles, the Huffington Post...

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Israel and Hamas have agreed to a UN request to halt hostilities for five hours on humanitarian grounds on Thursday, while efforts continue to broker a longer-term truce. The sides announced the...

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado judge overseeing the murder case against accused theater gunman James Holmes proposed on Wednesday that jury selection begin in December for the trial that has already been postponed three...

A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Wyoming said that if elected, he would open Yellowstone National Park up to drilling and mining and threatened to arrest federal officials still working in the state after he took office, the Casper...

By Barbara Liston ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) – Federal security officers at Orlando International Airport were getting a geography lesson this week after one failed to recognize the nation’s capital as part of the United States. The incident...

By Emily Stephenson and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to slash funding for Wall Street oversight and revamp new agencies dedicated to cracking down on...

A 55-year-old Chicago man was arrested on Wednesday and charged with a hate crime for allegedly slapping, insulting and spitting on a 79-year-old Black judge and former National Bar Association president, the Chicago Tribune reported on...

New York (AFP) – Rupert Murdoch’s conglomerate said Wednesday it made an unsuccessful bid for rival Time Warner which could shake up the media-entertainment world. The bid by 21st Century Fox, which would merge two of the...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) blistered her GOP colleagues and the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Hobby Lobby case just before a bill reversing the decision was blocked. “Guys, this is 2014, not 1914,” Warren said. “Most...

It was inevitable that, after weeks of hating on The Blacks for turning out and not-voting for current Teabagger hottie Chris McDaniel in Mississippi, then moving on to the trollops who are all slut-bags who can’t keep their whore legs...

By Michael Flaherty and Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen defended the central bank’s independence on Wednesday at a U.S. congressional hearing, handling tough questions from Republican...

SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) – California’s system for imposing and carrying out the death penalty is so long and drawn-out that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment and so is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on...