Los Angeles becomes latest US city to favor $15 minimum wage
The move is closely watched as Americans' wages have stagnated.Read More ...
Pinterest removes (then reactivates) #GunFAIL boards
David
Waldman uses his #GunFAIL boards to keep track of all the children who
are accidentally shot and killed in the United States.Read More ...
Twin Peaks waitresses chronicle Texas biker bloodshed, uncertain futures
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Los Angeles gives preliminary approval to $15 minimum wage
By
Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles City Council
voted on Tuesday to increase the minimum wage in the nation's
second-largest city to $15 an hour by 2020 from the current $9, in a
victory for labor and community groups that have pushed for similar pay
hikes in several U.S. municipalities. The council's 14-1 vote on the
measure, which must come back before the panel for final approval, would
require businesses with more than 25 employees to meet the $15 pay
level by 2020, while smaller businesses would have an extra year to
comply. Officials said the plan, which comes on the heels of similar
minimum wage hikes in other major cities including Seattle and San
Francisco, would increase pay of an estimated 800,000 workers in the
city.Read More ...
Takata doubling U.S. recall for defective air bags to 34 mln vehicles
WASHINGTON/DETROIT
(Reuters) - Japanese air bag manufacturer Takata Corp is doubling a
recall of potentially deadly air bags to nearly 34 million vehicles,
making it the largest automotive recall in American history, U.S. safety
regulators said on Tuesday. The recall involves passenger and
driver-side air bag inflators in vehicles made by 11 automakers, the
U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) and Takata said. Regulators on Tuesday linked six
deaths worldwide to defective Takata air bags which exploded too
violently and shot shrapnel into the vehicles.Read More ...
Texas police seek gang truce, end of bloodshed after deadly brawl
By
Lisa Maria Garza WACO, Texas (Reuters) - Texas police asked rival
motorcycle gangs on Tuesday to put aside their differences after a
weekend brawl at a Waco restaurant that left nine people dead and 18
injured, calling for a halt to the carnage and threats of revenge
attacks. “There has been enough tragedy and there has been enough
bloodshed in Waco, Texas. Few of those involved in the deadly brawl are
from the Waco area, Swanton said.Read More ...
Takata air bag recall becomes biggest ever in US
Air
bag maker Takata Corp. has agreed to declare 33.8 million of its
inflator mechanisms defective, effectively doubling the number of cars
and trucks that have been recalled in the U.S. so far. The announcement
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Top Democrat sounds 'alarm bells' over Obama rhetoric on Islamic State
A
senior House of Representatives Democrat said Tuesday that the White
House’s description of supposed progress in the war against the Islamic
State should ring “alarm bells,” and called the fall of the city of
Ramadi to the extremists “a very serious and significant setback.”Read More ...
Bulk domestic surveillance: Where the 2016 candidates stand
The candidates are split on one of the USA Patriot Act's most controversial provisions.Read More ...
Patriots owner says he'll accept deflate-gate punishment
Robert Kraft said he will accept the punishment of commissioner Roger Goodell in deflate-gate.Read More ...
U.S. looks into whether hostage was kept by IS leader
WASHINGTON
(AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility
that the Islamic State militant leader killed Friday was the captor of
American hostage Kayla Mueller for a time.Read More ...
Clinton urges State Department to speed release of emails
CEDAR
FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the State Department on
Tuesday to speed the release of 55,000 pages of emails from her time as
secretary of state, as her decision to spurn administration rules and
use a private email address continued to dog her presidential campaign.Read More ...
Motorcycle gang shootout started with parking dispute
WACO, Texas (AP) — A deadly weekend shootout involving rival motorcycle gangs apparently began with a parking dispute and someone running over a gang member's foot, police said Tuesday.
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Unions urge Amtrak to put 2nd crew member in locomotives
PHILADELPHIA
(AP) — The union for Amtrak's locomotive engineers urged the railroad
on Tuesday to put a second crew member at the controls of trains on the
busy Northeast Corridor, where a derailment killed eight people and
injured more than 200 others.Read More ...
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