Adam Bevelacqua graduated from Brooklyn Law School last year with $100,000 in debt but high hopes for his future.

He passed the bar on his first try in New York and had internships to highlight on his resume. And, according to his research, the school’s job placement rate for new graduates was between 90 to 95 percent.

But Bevelacqua, 29, is no longer as optimistic.

“I’ve been looking for work ever since,” Bevelacqua told msnbc.com. “The jobs aren’t really there.”

On Wednesday, Bevelacqua joined 50 other law school graduates from across the country who sued their alma maters, alleging they were misled about job prospects and burdened with huge amounts of student debt.

President Obama announced Wednesday that he will deny a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, blaming Republicans for imposing a “rushed and arbitrary deadline” which he said did not give officials enough time.

GOP lawmakers immediately excoriated the president for the decision. House Speaker John Boehner said Obama is “selling out American jobs for politics,” and said Republicans in Congress would continue to push for the pipeline

Winning the $200,000 PowerBall prize will enable Donny Jones to pay off his bills, but the Idaho native won’t be leaving his cooking job anytime soon, CBS3Springfield.com reports.

“I love my job,” Donny Jones told the news outlet. “I love my bosses and everybody I work with here.”

Jones lives with a disability and has been working at the Hometown Kitchen in Idaho Falls for 16 years, where he first started out as a dishwasher. He says he considers his co-workers family and knows that they’ll help him manage his winnings.

“I was in shock,” Donny Jones told the news outlet. “I’m still in shock.”

Ford is hoping history can repeat itself with the upcoming launch of the next-generation Fusion four-door.

It’s been more than a quarter century since the maker revolutionized automotive design with the original Taurus sedan. Its windswept styling helped Ford dominate the huge midsize market segment, and led most competitors to migrate to more aerodynamic designs. The new Fusion, which makes its debut at the Detroit Auto Show next month, will borrow many of the visual cues of the recent Ford Evos concept car and, if early reviews are any indication, could help the maker topple the imports that have dominated the midsize segment over the last two decades.

Time is running out for Congress to renew extended unemployment benefits for millions of American workers out of a job. If the latest GOP proposal is enacted, time will also run out a lot sooner for the checks workers collect for extended jobless insurance benefits.

Workers in states with the worst job markets would be hit hardest under the GOP plan, which would shorten the maximum length of time a worker can collect benefits. In California, where the unemployment rate stands at 11.7 percent, the current 99-week maximum would be cut by 40 weeks. Workers in other hard-hit states, including Michigan, Illinois and Florida, would also see their extended benefits run out 40 weeks sooner than the current program, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

As the U.S. economy began to tank, the number of abused kids landing in the hospital with severe brain injuries spiked, a new study shows.

Anecdotes linking child abuse to the recession have surfaced before,
but there had been no hard data to back the connection until now.

“It’s definitely disturbing,” said Elizabeth Gershoff, a psychologist who studies parenting but was not involved in the study.

Although there is no proof that financial hardship itself is causing
the uptick in abuse, earlier research has tied parental stress to child
maltreatment.

“Living in poverty for parents can be very stressful,” Gershoff, of
the University of Texas at Austin, told Reuters Health. “And that in
turn leads to harsher parentin

Burger Joint serves nearly two-dozen different kind of burgers, including a peanut butter and jelly burger and a burger served on a glazed donut.

The mother and son who’ve teamed up to create these concoctions said they were inspired by the many cable television shows featuring off-the-wall food.

“Because a lot of people like their burgers, they’re all about burgers, different types of burgers,” said owner Gale McGrath.

Customers seem to be willing to give these unusual combinations a try.

SEATTLE — Craving a gourmet meal on the fly? Food trucks plying American streets are delivering increasingly varied and sophisticated fare to the urban palate. Mobile kitchens offer hamburgers made from grass-fed cows, artisan breads, ethnic blends like Korean tacos and gourmet dishes that stand up next to fine fare from the brick-and-mortar sector.

From how to score a cocktail to where to scatter grandma’s ashes, this is your ticket to the real Magic Kingdom.

1. There are dead bodies in the Haunted Mansion

The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland is one of the scariest places in the park, but not for the reasons you’d expect. In his 1994 book “Mouse Tales,” former Disney employee David Koenig tells the story of a tourist group that requested a little extra time on the ride so they could hold a quick memorial for a 7-year-old boy.