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Rich New York City Couple Allowed Their Children To Beat Up Undocumented Nanny Lawsuit Alleges
Undocumented Chilean nanny Felicitas del Carmen Villanueva Garnica filed a lawsuit this week against a New York City socialite couple who she alleges forced her to work 12-hour days and allowed their children to beat her, according to ...
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Treasury chiefs loopy signature evolves into something almost legible
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News Penmanship purists can relax: Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has straightened out his signature.When he was nominated for the post earlier this year, Lew was mocked for his John Hancock - an aimless series of loops that was compared to the white icing atop a Hostess cupcake.The top finance official in the federal government was given the humiliating nickname ...
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Analysis Why Edward Snowden isnt a whistleblower legally speaking
Ever since Edward Snowden revealed himself as the leaker of classified documents about U.S. surveillance programs, he has sometimes been called a whistleblower. But is ...
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Kitten survives 1000-mile journey inside car engine
By Gillian Spear, NBC News A stray kitten is recuperating after spending two days stuck in the engine of car that made a 1,000-mile drive from Oregon to Southern California.Julia Di Sieno, who has been rescuing animals for 30 years, answered the driver’s call to rescue the kitten in Santa Barbara, Calif.Di Sieno said that the driver heard the stray's cries when she left Oregon, but ...
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At last it’s time for America to talk to the men from the Taliban
No more long dinners in Qatari restaurants, or idle afternoons in the capital's many shopping centres. Since they were first secretly delivered by US plane to Doha in 2010, the senior Taliban emissaries whom Washington hoped would eventually agree a peace deal with Kabul have not been rushed off their feet; efforts to kick-start a formal negotiating process to end the war repeatedly ...
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September 11 defendants boycott hearing
THE five defendants accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks have refused to appear at a Guantanamo hearing to lay the groundwork for their eventual ...
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Labor Seeks Influence in New York’s Mayoral Race
In a war room high above Lower Manhattan, leaders of the http://www.uft.org/">United Federation of Teachers are plotting a comeback. After more than a decade of sitting out the fiercest race in town the union is expected on Wednesday to throw its sophisticated political machine behind a candidate for mayor of New York ...
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Bob Wheelock Named Senior EP at Al Jazeera America
, the seasoned network news producer who spent nearly 30 years at ABC News, has been named senior executive producer at Al Jazeera America, the channel set to launch later this summer in place of Current. Wheelock has been with Al Jazeera since February 2012, when he joined the organization as ep of newsgathering for Al Jazeera English. He has been involved in the channels' launch, ...
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Protesters jailed as they decry Republican shift in North Carolina
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - A conservative shift by North Carolina's first Republican-led government in more than a century is drawing weekly protests to the state capital of Raleigh, but some lawmakers are defiantly standing their ...
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WikiLeaks trial focuses on whether Tweets meet evidence standards
FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The court-martial of the U.S. soldier accused of providing reams of classified documents to WikiLeaks in a case illustrating the challenge of keeping secrets in the digital age must decide whether tweets and Web pages can be admitted as ...
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Judge refuses 3-month trial delay request for US military shooting suspect
FORT HOOD, Texas - A U.S. military judge has refused a three-month trial delay for the Army psychiatrist charged in a deadly 2009 shooting rampage. Maj. Nidal Hasan made the request after the judge allowed him to represent himself. He faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted in the attack that left 13 dead on a Texas Army post Hasan had said he needed more time to ...
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New NYC evacuation zones include almost 3 million people
NEW YORK Nearly 3 million New Yorkers' homes are now in evacuation zones that cover more than a third of the city's population, under new maps released Tuesday. In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, officials said last month, the number of zones would double and encompass about 600,000 more residents. Few storms are likely to require evacuating all six new zones, and the scheme is designed ...
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Video Lemurs have a new home at the San Diego Zoo
Five lemurs from Madagascar are now living at the San Diego Zoo. The ring-tailed and wide-eyed creatures live in a free-range exhibit called "Lemur Walk," which allows visitors close-up views of these friendly ...
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Ex-NFL player with ALS responds after radio hosts fired for mocking him
ATLANTA A day after the cast of an Atlanta sports radio show was fired for mocking Steve Gleason's battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the former Saints player issued a response. Team Gleason, an organization named after the former NFL player, posted a statement on ...
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Bostons One Fund nears $55M with more than 250 claims
One Fund Boston administrator Kenneth R. Feinberg leads a town hall meeting held to discuss how victims of the Boston Marathon bombing will be compensated on May 7, 2013, at the Boston Public ...
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Watch Man Accused of Stealing Selling and Re-Stealing Car
An elaborate scheme to sell a stolen -- twelve east was so crazy that it just might have worked prosecutors in Evanston Illinois say -- Simmons. Still at 2010 Toyota Camry attached a GPS tracker then sold the current -- -- and that and in. They say -- stole the car again and tried to sell it again this time though to an undercover police officer. The 22 year old was arrested and is being held on ...
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Watch Florida Bans Drug Paraphernalia Sales
Glass pipes and -- popular amongst donors could be a lot harder to come by in Florida but a law that bans them. Doesn't make it easy for police to clear them off store shelves -- -- takes effect ...
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Watch Biden Pushes White House Gun Control Priorities
Folks. It's good to see so many. So many faces I I'd hoped. We would have assembled. In this auditorium. Earlier. Although -- hope we were and a have assembled here. Couple months ago. Celebrating the first in the number of victories that we will have. In -- India. The congress. 44. Of our college it was a 45. Voted no. -- you rational simple straightforward. Extension of an existing ...
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Miami Lakes Man Wife Charged In Drug Trafficking Investigation
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A Miami Lakes man, his wife and his mother accused of trafficking in pharmaceutical drugs have been taken into custody and charged. Jorge and Vicky Castillo of Miami Lakes, along with his 60-year old mother Graciela Quevedo, were arrested Monday and charged with trafficking in contraband prescription drugs, conspiracy to traffic in contraband prescription drugs, money ...
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Miami-Dade Votes OK On No-Kill Animal Shelter
MIAMI (CBSMiami) -Miami-Dade County Commissioners, on Tuesday, voted to approve The Pets' Trust, a popular citizen initiative that could save the lives of thousands of unwanted pets. The commission approved the $20 million funding package for the Animal ServicesDepartment which will underwrite high-volume spay/neuter clinics in parts of the county where veterinary care is hard to find or ...
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Denvers Destination Hotels to assume management of Eden Roc Miami
Eden Roc Hotel in Miami, hotel owner Eden Roc LLLP said Tuesday.Destination Hotels & Resorts will begin management of the property July 11. The 21-floor, 631-room hotel, formerly known as the Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel, has been renamed as the Eden Roc Miami Beach."This transition marks the beginning of a new era for Eden Roc Miami Beach, one of the most iconic luxury hotels on Miami ...
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Boy 13 charged in wrestling death of girl 5
half brother NEW ORLEANS- A 13-year-old boy from a New Orleans suburb has been arrested after authorities say he told them he used TV wrestling moves on his 5-year-old half-sister, who died from the beating. Jefferson Parish sheriff's spokesman Col. John Fortunato says the boy was arrested Tuesday after a coroner's investigation found the girl died of multiple injuries, including ...
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Radio programmes that address global issues honoured by UNNew York Festivals Awards
18 June 2013 – A message of hope from a boy on the war-torn streets of Kabul, a profile of Danish efforts to help the elderly live the way they choose and an investigative story on the cruel reality of human trafficking are the winners of this year’s awards for outstanding radio programming presented by the United Nations as part of the 2013 New York Festivals Awards. ...
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Education Dept. offers more time to reach goals
WASHINGTON -; The Education Department is offering states more time to enact promised reforms in exchange for permission to ignore unworkable parts of No Child Left ...
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Study finds housing bias against same-sex couples
WASHINGTON -; A new study finds that same-sex couples are treated less favorably than heterosexual couples when seeking information about rental housing advertised ...
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