| 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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| Migrants break through Hungary police lines near Serb border Posted: 07 Sep 2015 10:20 AM PDT  ROSZKE, Hungary (AP) — Several hundred Arabs, Asians and Africans tired of waiting for buses broke through Hungarian police lines near the Serbian border Monday and marched north on the main highway to Budapest as authorities once again demonstrated an inability to control the human tide passing through Hungary.
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| Kentucky clerk seeks to force governor to OK denial of gay marriage licenses Posted: 07 Sep 2015 10:44 AM PDT  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. "The Governor's refusal to take elementary steps to protect religious liberties has now landed Kim Davis in jail," Liberty Counsel founder and chairman Mat Staver said.
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| Obama orders government contractors to offer paid sick leave Posted: 07 Sep 2015 09:41 AM PDT  By Jeff Mason and Lucia Mutikani 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 during a flight on Air Force One to Boston, where he spoke at a union event. The White House said it would affect some 300,000 people.
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| Illinois town to bury slain officer as police hunt killers Posted: 07 Sep 2015 07:39 AM PDT  An 18-mile procession beginning after Gliniewicz's funeral will wind its way from Fox Lake, about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Chicago, through Lake County. The procession will end at Hillside East Cemetery in Antioch, where Gliniewicz will be buried. Gliniewicz, a decorated 30-year veteran of the Fox Lake Police Department and the father of four boys who was known around the village as "G.I. Joe," was killed on Tuesday.
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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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| Critics push U.S. to help Europe by taking more refugees Posted: 06 Sep 2015 12:21 PM PDT  By Bill Trott and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States came under more pressure on Sunday to help Europe find sanctuary for a flood of immigrants displaced by war and chaos, but Washington showed no signs of planning a dramatic increase in its intake of refugees. David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee and former British foreign secretary, called on the United States to bring out "the kind of leadership America has shown on these kind of issues" in the past. "The United States has always been a leader in refugee resettlement but 1,500 people over four years is such a miniscule contribution to tackling the human side of this problem," Miliband said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." State Department spokesman John Kirby, in an interview with Reuters late on Saturday, offered no indication the United States would be greatly boosting the number of immigrants it would allow into the country.
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