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Members of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees union, or AFSCME, listen to a council executive speak about conditions at state prisons and detention centers in Illinois.
Community

Surprise: Unions show signs of revival, despite setbacks

From all appearances, it would seem that labor unions are an endangered species. But here's the surprise: Organized labor is showing new signs of life.

7 years ago

Police officers talk to a man as they respond to a shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday. (Greg Savoy/Reuters)
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Community

Maryland newsroom shooting that left 5 dead was ‘targeted attack’

Acting Anne Arundel County Police Chief William Krampf confirmed an adult male suspect is in custody and being interrogated by law enforcement.

7 years ago

The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland (Google Map https://goo.gl/maps/mjHv2xpvpz32)
Community

5 killed, others wounded at Maryland newspaper shooting

A single shooter killed five people Thursday and wounded others at a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, and police said a suspect was in custody.

7 years ago

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, speaks during an event on Capitol Hill in 2016. Lee is the only member of the Senate on Trump's list. (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)
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Courts & Law

Trump says he will nominate new Supreme Court Justice from this list

Here is a look at who is under consideration.

7 years ago

Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy is seen during a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House April 10, 2017. Earlier in the day Neil Gorsuch, 49, was sworn in as the 113th Associate Justice in a private ceremony at the Supreme Court. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme court to lose its swing voter: Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire

Kennedy announced his retirement Wednesday, setting the stage for what promises to be an epic political battle over his replacement.

7 years ago

About 100 newly arrived immigrants listen to a volunteer walk them through the process to seek asylum at a Catholic Charities respite center in McAllen, Texas. (Mose Buchele/KUT)
NPR
Community

Some migrant parents agreeing to self-deport to reunite with children

"They were just so desperate to get back with their kids that they're opting to go this route."

7 years ago

People gather at the Supreme Court awaiting a decision in an Illinois union dues case, Janus v. AFSCME, on Monday. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme Court deals blow to government unions

SCOTUS ruled Wednesday that government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be charged for the cost of collective bargaining.

7 years ago

Visitors depart the Supreme Court early Monday, June 25, 2018. The justices upheld the Trump administration's travel ban on Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Courts & Law

Court upholds Trump travel ban, rejects discrimination claim

The 5-4 decision Tuesday is the court's first substantive ruling on a Trump administration policy.

7 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

Republican congressman: Pruitt should quit after trying to block PFAS study

Fitzpatrick: '...way too much smoke' surrounding EPA chief.

7 years ago

The FBI says reports of sexual assaults on commercial airline flights are on the rise. (Adam Hester/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

36,000 feet in the air, flight attendants and passengers say ‘me, too’

About 1 in 5 flight attendants say they have witnessed a passenger being sexually assaulted or had an assault reported to them.

7 years ago

The Pentagon plans to build temporary camps for detained immigrants. Here, children of detained migrants are seen at a tent encampment near the U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry in Tornillo, Texas. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Pentagon will build 2 more temporary camps to house migrants, Mattis says

The defense chief did not give details about the locations of the bases that would contain the camps.

7 years ago

A view inside the Up Stairs bar following a fire that left 32 dead and several more injured, seen on June 25, 1973. Most of the victims were found near the windows in the background. (Jack Thornell/AP)
NPR
Community

In 1973, an arson killed 32 people at a gay bar. For years, it was forgotten

It was 45 years ago this Sunday that one of the worst attacks on the LGBTQ community left 32 people dead.

7 years ago

Sahar Pirzada, program and outreach manager for HEART, leads a workshop at Peace Over Violence in downtown Los Angeles.
(Josie Huang/KPCC)
NPR
Education

Muslim sex educators forge their own #MeToo movement

"Growing up, I kind of believed that sexual violence was, just in general, a Western concept, like it doesn't happen to people who are Muslim."

7 years ago

A photo of President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is on display as a member of People's Democratic Party stands in opposition of military exercises between the United States and South Korea near the U.S. embassy in Seoul on Tuesday. (Ahn Young-joon/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

U.S. and South Korea agree to suspend upcoming military exercises indefinitely

The announcement comes on the heels of the summit in Singapore between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12.

7 years ago

In 2016, Donald Trump captured 68 percent of the vote in West Virginia, a state hit hard by opioid overdoses. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Analysis finds geographic overlap in opioid use and Trump support In 2016

The study has limitations and can't establish that opioid use was a definitive factor in how people voted.

7 years ago

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