The country’s largest employer — the federal government — is looking to make it easier for its employees and contract workers to join a union. A White House task force announced 70 recommendations Monday to promote federal worker organizing and collective bargaining, which the Biden administration hopes can be a …

One of the people on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list has been apprehended in Mexico after 16 years on the run, the FBI announced Friday. Octaviano Juarez-Corro is accused of killing two people and wounding three others after allegedly opening fire at a Memorial Day picnic in Milwaukee …

Thousands of early-childhood educators in Washington, D.C., will receive checks of at least $10,000 from their local government, after the city council voted in favor of the measure Tuesday.  Higher taxes on Washington’s wealthiest residents will make the direct payments, which can range up to $14,000, to day-care workers and …

Washington – A Kansas man accused of threatening President Joe Biden and multiple U.S. Secret Service agents is set to appear in a Baltimore federal courtroom on Wednesday, where a judge will decide whether he should be detained pending trial. Prosecutors allege that Scott Ryan Merryman, a 37-year-old from Independence, …

Fairfield, Connecticut — A man who allegedly launched a racist tirade in a Robeks store after his son had an allergic reaction to a smoothie was charged with a bias crime and fired by Merrill Lynch. His lawyer denies he’s racist. Fairfield police say James Iannazzo bought the smoothie Sunday …

President Biden’s first year was a busy and difficult one, in which he faced a continuing global pandemic, rising inflation, the end of the country’s longest war in Afghanistan, the passage of historic infrastructure legislation and the stalling of his broader social and voting agenda, among many other challenges. Another …

San Diego police have determined the causes of death of a 40-year-old woman and her 2-year-old son who plunged from the third level of San Diego’s Petco Park, just as thousands of baseball fans were heading inside for a Padres game last year. Raquel Wilkins’ death on September 25, 2021, …

Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock ‘n’ roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and “Walking in the Rain” as the leader of the girl group The Ronettes, has died. She was 78. Spector died Wednesday after a brief battle with cancer, …

A New Jersey man who posed as a former New England Patriots player in order to buy and sell Super Bowl rings that he claimed were gifts to Tom Brady’s family will plead guilty to fraud, federal prosecutors said Monday. One of the rings sold for more than $337,000. The …

The Biden administration outlined a plan on Thursday to replace all of the nation’s lead water pipes in the next decade. The multi-agency Lead Pipe and Paint Action Plan will use $15 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed last month and could require additional funding down the line. “The …