Dozens of fast food workers in cities throughout the United States were arrested in a coordinated series of protests and actions of civil disobedience to demand a minimum wage of $15 and the right to unionize.
The billionaire former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg will return to the position of CEO at the company that made him one of the richest men in the United States.
China is the latest member of a club that includes dozens of countries that have had their citizens fight on behalf of the Islamic State as it seeks to establish an Islamic Caliphate.
The French have cancelled the delivery of two warships, the first half of a four-ship deal with Russia, as evidence of Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine continues to grow and peace seems to grow more elusive.
A Turkish police officer who shot and killed a protester during The Gezi Park protests of 2013, an incident that fueled further protests nationwide, has been sentenced to jail.
A new study has found that a double mastectomy does not increase the survival rate in breast cancer patients at a time the procedure has been growing in popularity.
A Detroit homeowner who shot and killed a teenage girl who knocked on his door after having a car accident has been sentenced to at least 17 years in prison.
The non-profit organization known as Doctors Without Borders and has been on the front lines of the current Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa has issued its strongest call yet for immediate and dramatic steps to be taken to contain the spread of the disease.
The authorities in Bosnia have arrested 16 people they claim have gone to fight for radical Islamist groups in Syria and Iraq at a time the issue of foreigners fighting in those conflicts has seized the attention of the media and governments around the world.
Two North Carolina inmates have been freed from jail after spending more than 30 years in prison for a crime they did not commit.
CVS, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the United States, has made good on its promise to stop selling tobacco products and replace them with nicotine substitutes in all of its stores.
Nurses in Liberia have gone on strike as concerns grow over the effects of Ebola on the societies of West Africa.
Halliburton has agreed to pay more than $1 billion dollars in damages for its role in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the effects of which are still being felt today.
In one of the largest labor actions in recent history, fast food workers in 150 cities are planning strikes and acts of civil disobedience for Thursday, Sept. 4.
The families of Iraqi soldiers who have been taken hostage by the terrorists of the Islamic State have stormed the Iraqi Parliament demanding news of their captive loved ones.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
