Last week, over a 3 or 4 day period, there were 4 instances in which a mainstream media outlet took a story that 2 reporters who put out TPMmuckraker.com, Paul Kiel and Justin Rood had first published and ran it as their own without crediting or ment
The station is owned by Entravision Communications Corp., a Santa Monica, Calif. firm that operates a string of Spanish stations throughout California and the Southwest, including KLNZ-FM (103.5) in the Valley, also known as Radio Tri-Color.
After a three-year run, Myrtle Beach's homegrown airline, Hooters Air, is bowing out of regularly scheduled air service. The airline will cease its public charter flights April 17 and will run only private charters out of Winston Salem, N.C.
His family's lawsuit against the city and LAPD claimed a corrupt LAPD officer arranged to have Wallace killed at the behest of Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight, and that LAPD officials covered up Mack's involvement. Kn
MIAMI -- Jack Abramoff, the once-powerful Washington lobbyist whose downfall has propelled a far-reaching congressional-corruption investigation, was sentenced Wednesday to five years and 10 months in prison for his role in the fraudulent purchase of
Chinese President Hu Jintao will visit the United States next month and Washington insists Beijing's perceived inaction on issues such as currency reform, copyright piracy and trade barriers will be high on the agenda.
"This new version of Bluetooth technology will meet the high-speed demands of synchronizing and transferring large amounts of data as well as enabling high quality video and audio applications for portable devices, multi-media projectors and tel
Scientists in Australia have launched a supersonic scramjet engine into space for the 2nd time in a week, as they work towards building a device which could revolutionise air travel, reached an altitude of 200 miles and 4,700 miles/hour.
An explosive report soon to be released by the Project on Government Oversight, fingers high-level officials both on the federal and local California level in allegations of influence-peddling ensnaring members of both parties.
[Another no bid contract!] The Bahamas is getting sophisticated equipment to detect radioactive materials in shipping cargo. But US customs agents won't be on site to supervise the machine's use as a nuclear safeguard for the American shorel
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) and a police officer scuffled after the Georgia Democrat entered a House office building unrecognized and refused to stop when asked.
The indictment, returned where the case originated a week after the 9/11 attacks, charged that prosecutor Richard Convertino and State Department special agent Harry Smith conspired to withhold photographs of a Jordanian hospital they said was a targ
Silver has surged 57 percent in the past year, and gold reached a 25-year high last month as investors keep betting that precious metals will outperform stocks and bonds.
"It's mostly window dressing," said the president of Common Cause. "I don't think this will pass the straight-face test." Supporters said the bill would help restore public confidence. "There's a sign now up in fr
The Kansas Republican [US Congessman] bought the historic Capitol Hill town house for $410,000 on Dec. 15, 2000. That was $19,000 less than the US Family Network paid for the home about 2 years earlier, despite a sharp rise in real estate values duri
The Florida state Attorney General has subpoenaed the 3 Electronic Voting Machine companies who have all refused to do business with Leon Co. since they discovered that Diebold's optical-scan voting system was vulnerable to hackers.
Police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi said Carroll, 28, was handed over to the Iraqi Islamic Party office in Amiriya, western Baghdad, by an unknown group. She was later turned over to the Americans and was believed to be in the heavily fortified Gree
Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear program, with help from Pakistani experts, the German magazine Cicero reports. Saudi bar codes can be found on half of Pakistan's nuclear weapons "because it is Saudi Arabia which ultimate
The battle among Republicans over immigration policy and border security is threatening to undercut a decade-long effort by President Bush and his party to court Hispanic voters, just as both parties are gearing up for the 2006 elections.
But those exchanges never occurred. Instead, the debate -- which runs 15 pages and brims with conversational flourishes -- was inserted into the Congressional Record minutes before the Senate gave final approval to the legislation.
Only one in five Americans think cheating on taxes is morally acceptable or is not a moral issue, according to a new survey. Some 10 percent are equally ambivalent about cheating on a spouse.
STEWART: ... Joshua Bolton who has been working in the White House for Bush's entire Presidency. He spent two years working under Andy card. The last three years he's been in charge of the Office of Management and Budget. In other words, he j
Most scientists agree that core accretion is how terrestrial planets such as Earth and Mars were created, but the model can't convincingly explain how gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn came to be. One major problem is that developing gas
In the evolving debate on reforms, Arab intellectuals and common people continue to emphasize the need for culture- and region-specific democratic reforms in the Middle East, and strongly oppose the imposition of Western models.
On his last visit to Iran, Canadian-based blogger Hossein Derakhshan was detained and interrogated, then forced to sign a letter of apology for his blog writings before being allowed to leave the country. Compared to others, Derakhshan is lucky.
Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began building a coalition after winning Israel's election on plans to impose final borders with the Palestinians by uprooting many West Bank settlements. Israel favored peace negotiations with the Palestinians
Took neural precursor cells from mouse brains and injected them into rats that could no longer walk after their spines were crushed. The cells migrated to the spinal cord, merged into the injured tissue and developed into cells that produced myelin,
The disastrous foreign policies of the US have left it more isolated than ever, and China is standing by to take over. 'Our power, then, has the grave liability of rendering our theories about the world immune from failure. But by becoming deaf t