The archive of all headlines from April 20, 2015, organized by time of publication.
More than 800 firefighters from at least six fire agencies are battling the fire, which threatens about 200 homes.
A Florida mailman’s gyrocopter protest on Capitol Hill and a march on a GOP forum in New Hampshire crystallized how the campaign finance system is unexpectedly becoming an issue for 2016.
A boat carrying hundreds of people trying to reach Italy capsized in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya, adding to the rising death toll in what has become a migration crisis for Europe.
Restaurateurs say they can't stay in business otherwise if the minimum goes up to $15 an hour. Labor activists say adjusting for tips would leave workers vulnerable to illegal underpayment. Tipped workers
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The nation’s 1.3 million active-duty service members are in a special bind, virtually powerless to hold accountable the health care system that treats them.
The nation’s 1.3 million active-duty service members are in a bind, nearly powerless to hold accountable the health care system that treats them.
Family of black man who suffered a broken neck after his arrest demand that the inquiry into his death be taken away from the city police
Restaurateurs say they can't stay in business otherwise if the minimum goes up to $15 an hour. Labor activists say adjusting for tips would leave workers vulnerable to illegal underpayment. tips
The nation’s 1.3 million active-duty service members are in a special bind, virtually powerless to hold accountable the health care system that treats them.
Francis Pusok and his attorneys say his prior arrests show a pattern of misbehavior and aggression on the part of law enforcement that culminated in the April 9 beating. Beating
As many as 700 migrants are believed to have died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast, piling pressure on European leaders to find a solution to a spiraling migration crisis.
Francis Pusok and his attorneys say his prior arrests show a pattern of misbehavior and aggression on the part of law enforcement that culminated in the April 9 beating. Beating
Restaurateurs say they can't stay in business otherwise if the minimum goes up to $15 an hour. Labor activists say adjusting for tips would leave workers vulnerable to illegal underpayment. tips
Florida senator and presidential candidate says issue should be decided on state level but concedes ‘sexual preference is something people are born with’
Francis Pusok and his attorneys say his prior arrests show a pattern of misbehavior and aggression on the part of law enforcement that culminated in the April 9 beating. Beating
As many as 700 migrants are believed to have died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast, piling pressure on European leaders to find a solution to a spiraling migration crisis.
As many as 700 migrants are believed to have died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast, piling pressure on European leaders to find a solution to a spiraling migration crisis.
As many as 700 migrants are believed to have died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast, piling pressure on European leaders to find a solution to a spiraling migration crisis.
As many as 700 migrants are believed to have died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast, piling pressure on European leaders to find a solution to a spiraling migration crisis.
Restaurateurs say they can't stay in business otherwise if the minimum goes up to $15 an hour. Labor activists say adjusting for tips would leave workers vulnerable to illegal underpayment. tips
‘There’s really no reason for people who care about climate to be excited about her,’ environmental activists warn amid questions from pollsters and donors
As federal spending cuts slow job gains, new census estimates show a dramatic trend in “outmigration,” with the number of people moving away on the rise.
They are always making mischief online, one step ahead of their parents. Here’s how to rein them in—and teach them life lessons, too.
Though jail is considered an effective incentive for parents who are able to pay child support, critics say punitive policies do not work for those who are poor.
European governments, divided over how to respond, convene as reports suggest death toll from weekend capsizing in Mediterranean could reach 950
European foreign ministers are meeting in Luxembourg today to find a response to the deaths of thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Migrant rescue
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European foreign ministers are meeting in Luxembourg today to find a response to the deaths of thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Mediterranean migrants crisis talks
Italian and Maltese vessels respond to calls from inflatable liferaft off Libya’s coast with up to 150 people on board and another with 300 people on board
Everything about the war on Yemen is a smokescreen. Concealed behind the smoke is a tale of geopolitics and petro-politics that aims to control the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden.
Rescuers scrambled to reach two vessels in the Mediterranean even as efforts continued to find survivors after a ship carrying hundreds sank Saturday night. Only 24 bodies out of an estimated 700 had been recovered by Sunday evening.
if the Saudis were indeed the State sponsors of 9/11, why on earth did the US and the Atlantic Alliance (under the doctrine of collective security) choose to wage a “Just War” of retribution against Afghanistan. Did they get their countries mixed up?
As federal spending cuts slow job gains, new census estimates show a dramatic trend in “outmigration.”
Italian and Maltese vessels respond to calls from inflatable liferaft off Libya’s coast with up to 150 people on board and another with 300 people on board
European foreign ministers are meeting in Luxembourg today to find a response to the deaths of thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Mediterranean migrants crisis talks
Baltimore manwho was arrested ‘without incident’ died a week after being hospitalised due to something that happened while being transported
Baltimore man arrested ‘without incident’ died with broken neck a week after being hospitalised because of something that happened while being transported
Officials are under pressure for not doing more to aid Europe-bound migrants escaping oppression in Africa and the Mideast after a ship with possibly as many as 950 people capsized.
Geologists say a Ventura fault is more dangerous than previously thought, capable of producing an earthquake as large as magnitude 8 as well as severe tsunamis.
PM Matteo Renzi says Europe can not ‘close our eyes and commemorate later’ the tragedy, as another migrant boat runs aground on Rhodes
Emergency meeting in Luxembourg also results in decision to boost maritime patrols in Mediterranean and broaden search-and-rescue mandate
Staff writer Diana Marcum wins the feature writing prize and Mary McNamara, The Times' television critic and cultural editor, wins the prize for criticism. Pulitzer winners
European leaders were confronted on Monday with a full-blown humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean, prompting calls for a new approach to the surging number of refugees crossing from Africa and the Middle East.
Staff writer Diana Marcum wins the feature writing prize and Mary McNamara, The Times' television critic and cultural editor, wins the prize for criticism. Pulitzer winners
Officials are under pressure for not doing more to aid migrants escaping oppression in Africa and the Mideast after a ship with as many as 950 people capsized.
Democratic favorite deflects attacks on her family’s overseas fundraising record – to be published in controversial book – at meet-and-greet in New Hampshire