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Pressure on elected officials to raise minimum wage to living wage or something close to it. Today there was an important turning point in that fight. Mitt romney who said there was probably not a need to raise minimum wage now says it should go up. I, for instance, as you know, part company with many conservatives on the issue of minimum wage. I think we ought to raise it. Frankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay. Romney isnt the only one embracing wage hike. Fred de luca, found...

Those on board now arguably the biggest unsolved mystery in aviation history. Could this data be part of the key that unlocks the mystery . Aviation correspondent Richard Quest has been closely following the release of the log. He has new developments from los angeles. Richard, you know, its pages and pages of data, a little bit of explanation. When you look at this with your International Aviation mind, what do you see in these numbers . Reporter what theyve done is break down the flight into v...

Lets begin with the breaking news. Political earthquake shakes the foundations of the gop establishment. The House Majority leader, eric cantor, thought to be aligned one day for the speakership, has just said he will instead give up his post after a stunning primary upset by a political upstart, tea Party Influenced College Professor david brat. The aftershocks of the vote are raising huge questions about the midterm elections, the makeup of congress and any last vestiges of compromise here in ...

Attacks against foreign diplomats there is forcing them to temporarily close the embassy in the capital suna. Lets get trite strait to barbara starr. Good evening. What have you learnsed . There is more to the story than what officials are publicly saying. Behind the scenes a senior official tells me this is all about a threat to the embassy. There may be other western threats, but right now the concern is a credible threat to the u. S. Embassy in yemen. This is a threat that first emerged back ...

Those taken in april can be sold across the border for amounts ranging from 4,000 to 50,000. While foreigners can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom. Our own Business Correspondent zain asher knows well having attended school in nigeria. Our globe economic analyst is in nigeria for the World Economic conference on this week. A conference once meant to shine a light on nigerias emerging economy, now making quite a different impressions. Zain, start with you. Nigeria is now africas l...

Know that is a coerced confession that they had to make at gunpoint maybe. And if at least 100 of the girls are being kept together which is what we saw in that video, how real is the possibility that many of them have already been sold across ni jeer yas borders into the neighboring cameroon or neighboring chad . Well, there is a report possibility that a small number has been trafficked across the border, but we dont believe and somebody reports that we are getting directly on the ground from ...

Is responding, ed . Good evening. Its interesting because they are admitting that the president knew maybe even before that president ial transition that there were major problems and saying back in 2007 during the campaign the president made some big promises and said it would be a sick raid trust. He said they knew they were big problems to grapple with and now we see the drip, drip of scandal that reach add stream of allegations in 19 states, count them, 19 states where we seen problems inclu...

Cele solyndra. Charles, you dont like any of this. Golly, i have to tell you. Listen, the thing they have been doing for a long thing with the algae with the navy. If they could have taken it with the post office to buy them your local post office would be delivering them in a fiskar. Wills economic viability to all of this. But here you have a state in new jersey that wants to be fiscally responsible. Lets say that this Chinese Company doesnt need to use american accounting standards. You want ...

Months of investigation into hidden mismanagement and negligent. The reporter who got the story is jim griffin. He believes we are about to see more heads roll. I think it is nationwide. I think with a strong leader at the v. A. , if the right thing happens, you will see hospital directors across the country being fired. That is where i think this needs to go. And perhaps then, those fired employees of the v. A. Will be brought down to the department of justice and asked to explain why there was...

Statement in may. She waived her fifth amendment right then she wanted to reclaim it but it was too late and now she is stuck in a situation, either she testifies, she doesnt want to, or she takes the contempt, which is a likely outcome this week. Now, greta, the other option her lawyer raised was he could go before the house and testify and talk to these days. Think thats the right reserved for heads of states or convicted criminals or both. Or lawyers that make big mistakes. In their advice an...