The Obama administration is asking for two more weeks to weigh in on whether former Bush White House officials must testify before Congress about the firings of nine U.S. attorneys.
The request comes after an attorney for former Bush political adv
Hundreds of thousands of America's dairy cows are being turned into hamburgers because milk prices have dropped so low that farmers can no longer afford to feed the animals. Dairy farmers say they have little choice but to sell part of their herd
Given the sweep and severity of today's global economic crisis, it would seem there's plenty of blame to go around. But Bill Clinton doesn't think any of it should fall on his shoulders.
Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc, Donald Trump's casino group, is expected to file Tuesday for bankruptcy, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The company's board was scheduled to meet late Monday night to decide whether to authorize the fili
Michael Phelps will not face criminal charges after a photo of him apparently smoking marijuana from a pipe sparked an investigation in South Carolina.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Monday that he didn't have enough physical evidence
British Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials have confirmed a Royal Navy nuclear submarine collided with a French nuclear submarine in the middle of the Atlantic.
The MoD says both vessels were damaged after the low-speed underwater crash but there
Close to 3,000 American soldiers who recently arrived in Afghanistan to secure two violent provinces near Kabul have begun operations in the field and already are seeing combat. The new troops are the first wave of an expected surge of reinforcements
In an apparent effort to increase pressure on lawmakers negotiating an end to California's fiscal crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is preparing to send pink slips to 20,000 state workers.
Folks, if this translates into Eastern Europe where there are severe instabilities already brewing literally everything in the financial world could come apart "all at once."
In this 20 minute Bloomberg interview, Meredith Whitney talks about how a Bad Bank would affect lending, the difficulty of pricing toxic assets, and the fact that we are only half the way through the banks withdrawing liquidity from the system.
Nassim Taleb is worried, he thinks that the world is irrational, doesn't learn from mistakes and is riddled with fraud. But it's what he has to say about retiree pensions that should make people sit up and take notice.
A meltdown possibility in US banks, UK banks, and Eurozone banks as the entire global banking system is insolvent. Conceivably a framework for a new transatlantic or even global currency could come out of such a meltdown.
Give them jobs, healthcare, education & a retirement. Protect them from repercussions of their poor financial decisions. Cover them from cradle to grave. Is this what America has become, a nation of weaklings?
President Barack Obama is scheduled to travel to Phoenix next Wednesday to talk about the economy and federal efforts to help distressed mortgages and housing markets.
Strikes that have nearly frozen everyday life on France’s Caribbean islands burst into clashes today as police battled protesters angry at high prices and resentful of a tiny white elite
A personal banker... is quitting his job after Chevy Chase Bank... announced it will begin accepting consular cards from customers who many suspect are illegal aliens.
President Obama has ‘agreed in principal‘ to totally surrender the sovereignty of the United States to the New World Order before this year has passed.
Talking about the carbonization and incineration system this past week, reminded me of Ben Franklin's development of the pot bellied stove in the late eighteenth century. Anyone who has tried to heat a house with a fireplace can appreciate what a
I've chosen to go to court rather than accept a payoff from the 9/11 victims compensation fund. Instead, I want to know what went so wrong with our intelligence and security systems that a band of religious fanatics was able to turn four U.S passenger jets into an enemy force, attack our cities and kill 3,000 civilians with terrifying ease. I want to know why two 110-story skyscrapers collapsed in less than two hours and why escape and rescue options were so limited.
I am suing because unlike other investigative avenues, including congressional hearings and the 9/11 commission, my lawsuit requires all testimony be given under oath and fully uses powers to compel evidence.
The victims fund was not created in a spirit of compassion. Rather, it was a tacit acknowledgement by Congress that it tampered with our civil justice system in an unprecedented way. Lawmakers capped the liability of the airlines at the behest of lobbyists who descended on Washington while the Sept. 11 fires
It is easy to understand what drives cellulose based biofuel research. There is plenty of it and by its very nature, only termites and odd single cell animals thrive on its food value. Converting waste cellulose to a fuel precursor is a very desirabl
02/13/09 Just last week, [where there is smoke there is fire Ed] Beverly Eckert was at the White House with Barack Obama, part of a meeting the president had with relatives of those killed in the 2001 attacks Obama,
One of the victims of Continental Flight 3407, Beverly Eckert, was a Sept. 11 widow who put her never-ending grief to good use to make the country safer.
"We know she was on that plane and now she's with him," Eckert’s sister, Sue Borque, told The Buffalo News.
Just last week, Eckert was at the White House with Barack Obama, part of a meeting the president had with relatives of those killed in the 2001 attacks and the bombing of the USS Cole to discuss how the new administration would handle terror suspects.
Obama, addressing business leaders on Friday, referred to her "passionate commitment" to the 9/11 families. "She was an inspiration to me and to so many others, and I pray that her family finds peace and comfort in the hard day
This is the stuff Movies are made of [Ed] One of the passengers aboard the plane that crashed into a house 10 miles from Buffalo, New York, on Thursday was a 9/11 widow who had questioned the official account of the attacks, sued the government. Beve
There may yet be more bailout in sight. Next time it might not be the banks -- it might be your retirement, and there might not be enough money left. While it's relatively well-known that Social Security is short as much as $50 trillion needed
"The economy will turn around. Things will get better. The banks will be worth a lot of money. And they will cash out. And we will be paying higher taxes, we and our children, will be paying higher taxes so those people could have those bonuses.
Two decades ago a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student brought the Internet to its knees with a simple software program that skipped from computer to computer at blinding speed, thoroughly clogging the then-tiny network in the space of a f