Photo Credit: Will Hart By Kieran Mulvaney You're Mike Alvarado, and you're a professional prizefighter. You are nearly unreachably far back on the scorecards against Breidis Prescott, surrendering the first five rounds, your right eye swelling shut, your left eye cut, your lip split. Only you mount a furious rally and, when all hope seems lost, drop your opponent twice and stop him in the final round...
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The Los Angeles City Council has approved one of the nation's highest minimum wages for workers at the city's large hotels....
The U.S. government will pay the Navajo Nation $554 million to settle long-standing claims that it mismanaged funds and natural resources on the tribe's reservation for years....
Connecticut gubernatorial candidate Joe Visconti opposes the state's new gun restrictions, and he has an online commercial that shows him riding in a 1974 Pontiac convertible with rifles fixed to the rear fenders. ...
The U.S. and Arab allies launched a second major wave of airstrikes in Syria targeting mobile oil refineries controlled by Islamic State, the Pentagon said....