United pilots ratify new labor deal
After years of divisive negotiations between United Airlines and its pilots, union members on Saturday ratified a new labor agreement, shedding a bankruptcy-era contract for pilots and marking an...
View ArticleFeinstein to introduce gun control bill next year
WASHINGTON -- Two days after the shooting deaths of 26 people at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, Sen. Dianne Feinstein pledged Sunday that she would introduce new gun control legislation at the...
View ArticleRep. Tim Scott becomes South Carolina's first black senator
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tim Scott, a freshman tea party Republican, will become South Carolina's first black senator, Gov. Nikki Haley, announced Monday, appointing the congressman to fill the seat left...
View ArticleBombings rip through Iraq, reportedly killing at least 25
More than two dozen people were reportedly killed Monday in a string of bombings across Iraq that appeared to include sectarian and anti-government attacks.
View Article22 NIU fraternity members charged in connection with freshman's death
19-year-old Palatine man died during hazing incident at Pi Kappa Alpha, authorities saidNearly two dozen members of a Northern Illinois University fraternity were charged with hazing crimes Monday...
View ArticleChina cracking down on doomsday group
More than 100 members of Almighty God have been arrested. The group warns that the world will end Dec. 21 and urges members to wage war on the Communist Party.BEIJING — For members of a doomsday cult...
View ArticleMexican president announces new security force
Peña Nieto says the 10,000-member force will be deployed to Mexico's most troubled regions.MEXICO CITY — Mexico will have a new 10,000-member security force that will be deployed to regions of the...
View ArticleBradley Patterson kicked off UNA team for tweeting Obama epithet
Bradley Patterson, the long snapper for the University of North Alabama college football team, has a lot of free time on his hands now because he is no longer a member of the North Alabama college...
View ArticleIreland to seek change in abortion law after woman's death
The Irish government announced Tuesday that it would draft new laws and regulations to spell out when doctors can terminate a pregnancy, weeks after an ailing woman was refused an abortion and perished.
View ArticleSearch on for bank robbers who used bedsheets to escape Loop jail
Officials are still looking for two convicted bank robbers that escaped a federal Loop jail after employees arriving for work Tuesday morning and saw a makeshift rope hanging from the outside of the...
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