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Demonstrators chant during health care rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington on March 4, 2015. The Supreme Court could wipe away health insurance for millions of Americans when it resolves the latest high court fight over President Obama's health overhaul. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Many Zimbabweans turn their cars into makeshift secondhand clothing stores to beat unemployment, but reliance on Western providers leaves African industries struggling with slowed development. (Associated Press)
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flip-flop: Current, and former, California Gov. Jerry Brown faced bashlash when Prop 13 froze wages in 1978. He now seeks to overturn the landmark law.
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Americans are waiting for a Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell, a major test of President Obama's health care overhaul that could halt insurance premium subsidies in all the states where the federal government runs the marketplaces. (Associated Press)
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As workers watch from a staircase, former Sen. Rick Santorum announces he is entering the Republican presidential race in Cabot, Pennsylvania. He vowed to cut government spending and "revoke every executive order and regulation that costs American jobs." (Associated Press)
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Lilly Pulitzer has disavowed an employee's insensitive "fat-shaming" cartoons after photos of her office display at the retailer's headquarters went viral. (NYMag.com)
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State Department employee Michael C. Ford is charged with hacking into the computers of young women, stealing sexual photos, and then engaging in extortion. (Image: ABC News screenshot) ** FILE **
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Protestors call for a $15-an-hour minimum wage as McDonald's shareholders meet at the company's corporate headquarters, Thursday, May 21, 2015, in Oak Brook, Ill. (Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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National Edition News cover for May 21, 2015 - Teamsters spend big on politics while preparing to cut pensions: Supporters for James Hoffa, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, rally outside Bally's Hotel and Casino on the first day of the national union convention, Monday, June 27, 2011, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Teamsters President James P. Hoffa let UPS withdraw from the Teamsters Central States Health and Welfare Pension Fund in exchange for organizing workers at a new subsidiary, a move unsupported by the fund's executive committee. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2013 file photo, people walk in front of the Notre Dame administration building, known as the Golden Dome, on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. The University of Notre Dame is suing the Obama administration over a federal mandate that its health insurance plans for students and employees cover birth control. The university filed its lawsuit Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, in U.S. District Court in South Bend. (AP Photo/Joe Raymond, FILE)
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This May 28, 2013, file photo shows signage outside a Wal-Mart store in Duarte, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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A pensioner counts Russian rubles in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. The ruble is one of the surprise star performers of 2015's currency markets, rising to its highest point against the dollar since 2013. (Associated Press)
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Maria Elena Durazo, an official at the national labor organization Unite Here and former head of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, center, and Ilse Escobar, program director at the Miguel Contreras Foundation, listen to motions as the Los Angeles City Council votes to raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour by 2020, making it the largest city in the nation to do so, in Los Angeles Tuesday, May 19, 2015. The measure approved Tuesday calls for small businesses with 25 or fewer employees to have an additional year to reach the $15 plateau. The council voted 14-1 after members of the public made impassioned statements for and against the plan. The increases begin with a wage of $10.50 in July 2016, followed by annual increases to $12, $13.25, $14.25 and then $15. Small businesses and nonprofits would be a year behind. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes )
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Supporters applaud during the minimum wage increase vote as the Los Angeles City Council votes to raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour by 2020, making it the largest city in the nation to do so, in Los Angeles Tuesday, May 19, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Hired protesters with the Black Lives Matter movement have started a #CutTheCheck hashtag and held a sit-in at the offices for ACORN's successor group in Missouri after the group allegedly stopped paying them. (Twitter/@MS_tjp)
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking at an event hosted by the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the America Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in Washington, March 23, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber raised suspicion during his re-election campaign when he shut down the state's health care exchange. (Associated Press)
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Under Investigation: Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber raised suspicion during his re-election campaign when he shut down the state's health care exchange. (Associated Press)
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, in 2002, declared that Saddam Hussein, "left unchecked will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security." (Associated Press)
