Residents throughout town late Wednesday afternoon reported receiving bogus orange-colored "notices" hanging partially outside their emptied recycling bins that are clearly designed to send a political message.
Cleaners at the Marine Corps museum near Quantico noticed spots on windows they thought were bird droppings. They turned out to be bullet holes. Since then, the same weapon has been used 4 more times to fire at military facilities in N. Virginia.
The trouble is figuring out who holds the old loan.
After issuing mortgages to homeowners, banks routinely sell the IOUs to other banks or institutions such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Huge volumes of mortgages have been packaged into securitie
STEVE MILLER is justifiably proud of the manicured grounds around his stately stucco home. So he was nonplussed when he discovered someone tossing plastic bags of dog excrement into the sculptured shrubs around a palm tree in his front yard.
The Transportation Security Administration worker who earlier this year was canned for falsely claiming to have discovered cocaine in the luggage of travelers was a bomb appraisal officer who was supposed to be evaluating new screening equipment at t
Jerry Jackson, the same New Black Panther member who intimidated voters in 2008 back at the same polling station, allegedly instructs voter to vote straight Democrat, then proceeds to threaten same voter.
Americans may have fallen out of love with Barack Obama, but the president of the United States is still an object of affection for the Chinese, who have remodelled him as a blow-up sex doll.
A Turkish court has reinstated a 30-month ban on the popular video-sharing YouTube website just days after it was removed, deepening a dispute over online free expression in the European Union candidate country.
Access to YouTube, a unit of Google
YouTube has removed from its site videos featuring calls to holy war by an al-Qaida-linked Muslim cleric after pressure from British and US officials. YouTube spokeswoman said the videos violated the site's guidelines prohibiting "incitement to commi
Germany has introduced electronic identity cards that store personal data on microchips, raising fears over data protection in a country especially wary of surveillance due to its Nazi and Stasi past.
The so-called eIDs enable owners to identify
Nicole Courides has a passion for Intercourse. She has to - it's her business. Courides founded the Intercourse Brewing Company (intercoursebrewingco.com), which she named after the rural Pennsylvania Amish community of Intercourse
For $150 billion, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration could have sent astronauts back to the Moon. The Obama administration judged that too expensive, and in September, Congress agreed to cancel the program.
San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant meals for children.
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed the law on Tuesday on a ve
San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant meals for children.
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed the law on Tuesday on a ve
For the first time, scientists have restored the ability of previously blind patients to recognize letters, fruit and other items using light-sensitive microchips implanted in the inner surface of the eye.
One patient was able to read the hands of
Freddie Mac, the second-largest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Wednesday said a faltering housing market resulted in a $4.1 billion third-quarter net loss and another draw from the Treasury to maintain positive net worth.
Freddi
South Korea's navy fired warning shots to drive away a North Korean fishing boat at a maritime border on Wednesday, the second incident in six days, jangling nerves in Seoul ahead of next week's G20 summit.
The Federal Reserve is going back to Jekyll Island to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the infamous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that spawned the draft legislation that would ultimately create the U.S. Federal Reserve.
A routine excavation has uncovered ancient walls surrounding the Great Sphinx of Giza. The walls were likely built to protect the Sphinx from blowing sand, said Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities Secretary-General Zahi Hawass, who is overseeing t
They help elitists to dismantle dissent and in the process damage their own future. It sounds insane, and in a way, they are psychologically ill, but in a manner that has been deemed tolerable by society. We call these people “Useful Idiots”.
Talk of impeachment has been revived as the GOP moves into the majority in the U.S. House, with a left-leaning commentator warning that the House even could investigate Barack Obama's birthplace.
Our ability to use in-flight Internet could be at risk following this latest terror threat. The bombs contained what appear to be stripped down cell phones, leading some to speculate they were to be detonated remotely. Homeland Security has locked in
In the world of fiction, H. G. Wells' invisible man had to drink a concoction of noxious chemicals to become invisible. The 21st Century version is much cleaner, safer and faster. Diminished reality—the ability to make objects disappear from real-ti
The key is to realize that supermoney can have a multiple impact on the money supply. In 2008, just before the financial crisis broke out, the multiplier impact on M2 was 10. Got that 10? Although, I don't necessarily expect it to go that high...
“Conversely, the chemical pathway area could include methods to degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive capabilities.” That’s right: the Air Force wants a way to fry foes’ minds, or at least make ‘em a little dumber.
For the past two years, Arizona's U.S. House delegation has consisted of five Democrats and three Republicans.
Change is imminent, with Republicans making strong charges to keep the seats they held and take some they did not.