| 'Give it a go, Joe': Pittsburgh union crowd cheers on Biden Posted: 07 Sep 2015 01:49 PM PDT  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Hearing chants of "run Joe, run," Vice President Joe Biden marched in Pittsburgh's annual Labor Day parade on Monday as speculation swirled about a potential late entry into the Democratic presidential campaign.
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| Clinton says no email apology: 'What I did was allowed' Posted: 07 Sep 2015 02:20 PM PDT  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she does not need to apologize for using a private email account and server while at the State Department because "what I did was allowed."
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| Europe's Refugee Crisis by the Numbers Posted: 07 Sep 2015 12:40 PM PDT  European leaders are proposing extra funding to help relocate thousands of people amid the continent's biggest refugee crisis since World War II. Germany and Austria are advocating for quotas for each of the 28 members of the European Union. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is expected this week to propose relocating 120,000 migrants in Italy, Greece and Hungary to other nations in the E.U., according to Bloomberg News.
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| Obama observes Labor Day, extends contractors' paid leave Posted: 06 Sep 2015 09:18 PM PDT  The president will sign an executive order Monday requiring paid sick leave for employees of federal contractors, including 300,000 who currently receive none.
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| Britain says to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees over five years Posted: 07 Sep 2015 10:52 AM PDT By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Monday to take in up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, responding to public clamor for his government to help those fleeing civil war in the country. "We are proposing that Britain should resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refuges over the rest of this parliament. Cameron has been under pressure from the media and his European counterparts to take in far more refugees to help with the wider migrant crisis, which has seen hundreds of thousand of people arrive in mainland Europe. |
| Harvard Professor Larry Lessig Says He's Running for President Posted: 06 Sep 2015 05:26 PM PDT  After exceeding his $1 million crowd-funding goal, Harvard Law School professor Larry Lessig announced today on "This Week" that he is running for president. "I think I'm running to get people to acknowledge the elephant in the room," he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos.
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| Hundreds surge past police near Hungary border, march north Posted: 07 Sep 2015 04:01 PM PDT  ROSZKE, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of angry and frustrated asylum-seekers broke through police lines Monday near Hungary's southern border with Serbia and began marching north toward Budapest, while Britain and France pledged to take in tens of thousands more refugees to try to ease the crisis.
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| Jailed Kentucky clerk seeks emergency injunction in gay marriage case Posted: 07 Sep 2015 12:07 PM PDT  By Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - Lawyers for jailed Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis said on Monday they had asked an appellate court to force Governor Steve Beshear to let her refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses based on her religious convictions. The lawyers sought emergency relief from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, asking it to grant Davis an exemption from the "governor's mandate that all county clerks issue marriage licenses," the non-profit legal advocacy group Liberty Counsel, which represents Davis, said in a news release.
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| Obama orders government contractors to offer paid sick leave Posted: 07 Sep 2015 02:43 PM PDT  BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday ordered government contractors to offer their workers seven days of paid sick leave a year and, without naming them, knocked Republican presidential candidates for advocating what he said were anti-union policies. Obama signed an executive order on sick leave, which the White House said would affect some 300,000 people, during a flight to Boston, where he spoke at a union event. Starting in 2017, workers on government contracts will earn a minimum of one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
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| Funeral of Illinois police officer draws hundreds of mourners Posted: 07 Sep 2015 01:17 PM PDT  Hundreds of mourners gathered in Illinois on Monday for the funeral of police officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, who was shot last week while pursuing three suspects who are still on the loose. Police officers from nearby towns were among those who filled the Antioch Community High School auditorium to pay last respects to Gliniewicz, an officer for the village of Fox Lake in northwestern Illinois.
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| Clinton back in Iowa, promises to take on Republicans Posted: 06 Sep 2015 05:40 PM PDT  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Campaigning in Iowa over Labor Day weekend, Hillary Rodham Clinton said she is ready to take on Republican opposition and will press for specifics on immigration proposals by front-runner Donald Trump.
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| Austria to revoke measures that let migrants cross from Hungary Posted: 06 Sep 2015 04:55 PM PDT  By Michael Shields and Irene Preisinger VIENNA/MUNICH (Reuters) - Austria said on Sunday it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded in Hungary into Austria and Germany since Saturday morning. Austria had suspended its random border checks after photographs of a Syrian toddler lying dead on a Turkish beach showed Europeans the horror faced by those desperate enough to travel illegally into the heart of Europe, which is deeply divided over how to cope. After 71 people suffocated in the back of a truck abandoned on an Austrian highway en route from Hungary, and as thousands headed from Budapest toward Austria on foot, Vienna had agreed with Germany to waive rules requiring refugees to register an asylum claim in the first EU country they reach.
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