Federal law has long forbidden discrimination against health care professionals who refuse to perform abortions or provide referrals for them on religious or moral grounds. That was before...
Like something out of a bad Stephen King novel, Redflex has the perfect solution to stop people from blocking their automated ticketing machines: more cameras!
3 administrators at Porter Middle School have been reassigned for allegedly asking a boy to buy marijuana as part of an informal sting operation against another student.
LAPD is investigating both the alleged marijuana supplier and the administrato
A 15-YEAR-old schoolgirl in England earned £14,000 over 2 months by working as a prostitute. Her unusual weekend job was exposed when a teacher at her school found condoms, lubricant and details of the agency she worked for in her bag.
Chinese prepared human rights report on the United States.
This is the full text of a report issued after the US issued its annual report on global human rights violations. It follows the same format and style and exhibits the same level of though
Early humans had feet like ours and left lasting impressions in the form of 1.5 million-year-old footprints, some of which were made by feet that could wear a size 9 men's shoe. The findings at a Northern Kenya site represent the oldest evidence
The complaint details sometimes stormy preparation sessions for Pendergest-Holt in January and February during which the bank's shaky asset base became apparent to a wider circle of officials and to the lawyer -- "Attorney A" -- who lat
Offshore financial centers which have thrived under a veil of bank secrecy will have to embrace transparency to survive a global crackdown on tax cheats that is menacing the private banking sector in Switzerland and beyond. A US tax fraud probe into
On Friday evening, Feb. 27th, the 10% crescent Moon will glide by Venus, forming a gorgeous and mesmerizing pair of lights in the sunset sky. Moon-Venus conjunctions are not unusual, but this conjunction has some special qualities:
"If government fails to find a new way to raise money, we will suffer grim consequences in the future: unimaginable levels of congestion, reduced safety, costlier goods and services, an eroded quality of life, and diminished economic competitive
The revolt has raised questions about the stability of Bangladesh and underlined the fragile relationship between the civilian government and the military. The impoverished South Asian nation has repeatedly faced bouts of military rule, returning mos
It is anyone’s guess regarding where this will take us but understanding the underlying physics is a great start. I suspect that we will be able to design superconducting behavior into a thin layer of atoms. Maybe even print it some day.
This is a timely reminder that THAI technology is continuing to advance. Petrobank Energy is currently building out a CAPRI/THAI pilot well series to complete the technology validation stage.
This is the first commercial field rollout of the techn
Landscapers were digging a hole for a fish pond in the front yard of a Boulder home last May when they heard a "chink" that didn't sound right. Just some lost tools. Some 13,000-year-old lost tools. They had stumbled onto a cache of mor
Obama’s proposal to make the government the sole provider of federally backed college lending threatens to diminish Sallie Mae and leave it a servicer and debt collector...
He has hired people who are part of the problem. ...These are people [Geithner and Summers] who think the only solution is to save their friends on Wall Street rather than to save 300 million Americans.
This country is broken and the pirates are running off with the loot. For some reason we are running after them begging to take our last pennies and then to throw us off a cliff.
The departure of gold prices from their past inverse correlation with the dollar is just another example of the commodities market's ability to surprise and often flummox investors.
Calderon said the violence that killed 6,290 people last year -- and more than 1,000 in the first eight weeks of 2009 -- is a sign that the cartels are under pressure from military and police operations nationwide.
If this plan stays and we go forward with this, we can forget about nationalization since so much money will be given into the furnace that is our financial sector. That is, we will burn through our capital and it will be too late.
In the “Health & Public Safety” section of the website, there is a post for a gun “buy back” event that was presumably held in Chicago on Sunday, February 15. Bryan Garcia, host of the event, offered to pay $1,500 per gun and $6,000 for four guns
The addition of economic news to the daily roundup of terrorist attacks and surveillance reports appears to reflect a growing belief among intelligence officials that the economic meltdown is now preeminent among security threats facing the United St
CNBC anchors were left dumbfounded and acted overtly cantankerous yesterday after Congressman Ron Paul’s opening statement at the House Financial Services Committee was broadcast live to an audience of millions.
“Natural living” advocates unveil their latest planet-saving invention - the reusable toilet wipe. (Are we being conditioned?... time to start buying pallets of toilet paper to barter with later. Yeah.... you laugh now)
The spy shop that brought you the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program wants to expand its power under President Barack Obama, the nation's top intelligence chief told Congress Wednesday, in a little-noticed intelligence grab
Dr. Wortham is author of The Other Side of Racism: A
Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness which analyzes how race
consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues.