New York City Council will hold an oversight hearing in September on a police department review of its training procedures. The review comes after Eric Garner, an unarmed Staten Island man, died after being placed in a chokehold while police attempted to arrest him
The Labor Department announced on Thursday that 298,000 Americans applied for unemployment benefits the week ending Aug. 23, a thousand fewer than the previous week.
For 50 years, New York has chronically underfunded its public defense attorney system. The result has been a system that costs the taxpayers, as people languish in jail waiting for trial, lose their jobs and homes and families and wind up becoming dependent on the state on release.
Results are in for primary elections in AZ, FL, OK and VT. Koch Brothers candidate is Republican nominee for Governor and Crist who was a Republican wins the Democratic nominee to run for Governor.
Primaries in Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma and Vermont will lead to competitive races for gubernatorial and congressional seats in November. Seventeen people are competing to become the president of the Navajo Nation -- the largest Indian reservation.
In two days, a Mexican-born man, Catalino Guerrero, will be on a plane back to a country he hasn't lived in for 23 years. At 57 years old, he has no living family there or any connections.
Several thousand people came by car, ferry or traveled in justice caravans for the rally and march on Saturday in Staten Island, New York to call for justice for Eric Garner.
The U.S. Census said America would become a multicultural majority by 2043, but Ethnifacts, population researchers, say the "tipping point" has already happened.
The national documentary series launching in fall 2014 will feature eight half-hour episodes looking at the changing racial, cultural and social landscape of America.
Five thousand people are expected to attend the "We Will Not Go Back" march on Staten Island on Saturday to call for justice for Eric Garner. Joining them will be Rev. Al Sharpton, former Gov. David Patterson, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the families of both Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney responded to a petition demanding a federal investigation into the shooting death of Ramarley Graham, and the NYCLU released its stats on stop and frisk for 2013, which show 90 percent of stops didn't result in arrests or summons and unfairly targeted blacks and Latinos.
At New York's Foley Square, surrounded by court buildings, Ramarley Graham's mother delivered a petition with 33,000 signatures on Wednesday to demand the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney's Office conduct a federal investigation into the fatal police shooting of her unarmed black teenage son.
Revisions to how the New York City contracts with minority and women owned businesses have led to fewer contracts, particularly for Hispanic-owned construction companies.
Former Alaska Attorney General GOP candidate Dan Sullivan, after winning Tuesday's primary, will now challenge incumbent Senate Democrat, Mark Begich in the November election.
Several reports show the Obama Administration is working behind the scenes on how to make good on his pledge to break the congressional gridlock over immigration reform.
Staten Island DA has called a special grand jury to meet next month to decide whether there should be an indictment in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, this despite calls to make an indictment and calls from New York congressional leaders and activists for a state and/or federal probe into the death.
There are two red state primary elections on Tuesday -- Alaska and Wyoming. In Alaska there is a heated contest to determine which Republican candidate will face incumbent Senator Mark Begich (D). Alaska will be a critical state in the midterm elections for determining which party has control of the Senate.
New York's Metropolitan Opera announced on Monday it had reached a tentative agreement with two of its largest unions -- the orchestra (Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians), and the chorus and other members (American Guide of Musical Artists).
At a technology conference in Portland, Oregon, on Friday, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he will introduce legislation to ban bulk electronic surveillance, arguing it should be protected as a constitutional right under the Fourth Amendment.
Apple Inc. announced this week it banned the use of benzene and n-hexane, potentially hazardous chemicals, in 22 of its final assembly factories, all of which are in China.
American public outcry over the heavily armed Ferguson police force has congressional lawmakers reconsidering legislation that would limit a controversial Department of Defense program that gave military weapons to police departments for free.
There are just three days left for the public to weigh in on the Environmental Protection Agency's farmer worker protection standards. The revised standards came out February in order to protect the nation's two million farm workers and their families from pesticide exposure. The deadline for comments is Monday, Jan. 18.
