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• 'Give it a go, Joe': Pittsburgh union crowd cheers on Biden
• Clinton says no email apology: 'What I did was allowed'
• Europe's Refugee Crisis by the Numbers
• Obama observes Labor Day, extends contractors' paid leave
• Britain says to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees over five years
• Harvard Professor Larry Lessig Says He's Running for President
• Hundreds surge past police near Hungary border, march north
• Jailed Kentucky clerk seeks emergency injunction in gay marriage case
• At least four people dead in small plane crash in Colorado mountains
• Obama orders government contractors to offer paid sick leave

'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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

At least four people dead in small plane crash in Colorado mountains Posted: 07 Sep 2015 05:04 PM PDT The twin-engine Cessna 310-H went down around 4:15 p.m. local time on Sunday in a remote section of the San Juan Mountains, part of the Rocky Mountain range, the National Transportation Board said. NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said the agency had reports that five people on board had died. Rescue teams from the Colorado National Guard and San Juan County had spotted the wreckage and were working to recover the bodies from the remote, mountainous area above the town of Silverton, in southwestern Colorado.

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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