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Working Families Rally in Boston for Sick Pay

Latino workers, demanding respect in a precarious job environment, helped boost the state's unionized workforce by 100,000 in 2012.

The US Court of Appeals, in Washington DC, issued a decision declaring the recess appointments Pres. Obama made to the NLRB in Jan. 2012 are unconstitutional.

Bestselling author and gun owner Stephen King says 'autos and semi-autos are weapons of mass destruction' in 25-page work.

If you give a mouse a cookie, will it give you something back? Researchers have long wondered whether animals play fair. A new study in chimps suggests that they do, although some skeptics are not convinced.

A legal scholar lambastes a Truthout article claiming that the Second Amendment was for preserving slave-patrol militias.

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