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A new report from a national coalition of mayors urges President Obama to adopt dozens of reforms to help curb gun violence, including steps to crack down on problems at gun shows and the creation of a federal interstate firearms trafficking unit.
Palestinian officials dropped their support for a scheduled vote on the report after intense lobbying from the Obama administration, which argued that action on the study would "backfire" by driving Israel away from possible peace talks and strengthe
The Army discharged Lt. Ehren Watada, writing the final chapter on the case of the most prominent military officer to refuse a deployment to Iraq. Watada, who had refused to deploy to Iraq in 2006 because he believed the war was illegal, finished out
Researchers have established the conditions that foster formation of potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance in the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) often fed to honey bees. Their study, which appears in the current issue of ACS' bi-weekly J
The president of war-torn Somalia said Friday that he urgently needs help to beat back an insurgency linked to al-Qaeda, adding that he has received only a fraction of the $200 million pledged at a U.N.-sponsored donors conference last spring to supp
One of the most distressing things about the current financial scandal is that there has been no similar reckoning against the firms that were supposed to be watching the system for the investment public.
Forget swine flu: The University of Florida's latest plan of attack concerns the off chance its employees become flesh-eating zombies.A UF manager posted a plan to deal with zombies on the school's Web site
Banks in Minnesota, Michigan and Colorado were shut by regulators, bringing this year’s toll of U.S. failures to 98 amid the worst financial crisis in more than seven decades.
- White House officials and Democratic leaders in Congress on Friday said they were weighing extending key elements of the economic-stimulus program as the nation grapples with a deteriorating job market.
A court-appointed examiner investigating Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy has been exploring whether the Federal Reserve improperly cut in front of other creditors owed money in the $613 billion bankruptcy case, records show.
Billions of Dollars in Defaults on No-Money-Down Mortgages Weigh on FHA's Books
Billions of Dollars in Defaults on No-Money-Down Mortgages Weigh on FHA's Books
Speculations grow that Russian diplomats, working on instructions from propaganda experts, tricked White House and State Department officials to get President Obama to make his missile shield announcement on September 17, a bad day for Poland.
President Obama's energy "czar" Carol Browner hinted today that the EPA might implement a cap and trade plan for carbon dioxide emissions even if that type of plan fails in the Senate. In other words, if our elected leaders recognize that enough Amer
Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not “expect” to read the actual legislative language of the committee’s health care bill because it is “confusing” and that anyone who claims they a
OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, said Wednesday he combed through documents from an abandoned local ACORN office because of reports of impropriety at other organization chapters. Oklahoma City-based news and investigative website
I am writing to address two alleged crimes in your jurisdiction and invite you to consider carefully your obligations under the law. As a Montanan and as an Oath Keeper, it has come to my attention that some persons presently positioned in Hardin, M
The pay package given to Freddie Mac's new chief financial officer should have sent a message from Washington to corporate America about how executive compensation standards must change. Instead, it did just the opposite. The government-controlled
There has been a growing narrative taking hold about Barack Obama’s presidency in recent weeks: that he is loved by many, but feared by none; that he is full of lofty vision, but is actually achieving nothing with his grandiloquence.
And that doesn't include the aircraft used to fly the presidential limousines and Secret Service vehicles there as well.
As President Obama approaches a decision point on Afghanistan strategy and whether to increase troop levels, a 24-minute rough cut of the first act of Obama's War.
As President Obama approaches a decision point on Afghanistan strategy and whether to increase troop levels, a 24-minute rough cut of the first act of Obama's War.
As economic numbers continue to plummet in the United States, some countries of the European Union have seen the errors of their ways and are now returning to free-market capitalist principles. The story starts with our own bad news… WASHINGT
As economic numbers continue to plummet in the United States, some countries of the European Union have seen the errors of their ways and are now returning to free-market capitalist principles. The story starts with our own bad news… WASHINGT
Let's hope life doesn't imitate art!
In the long term, the commodities that will do well include gold, copper and crude oil, said Patrick Kerr, managing director at Amerifutures Commodities & Options, adding that pullbacks in the major commodity markets will be opportunities for investo
The Federal Reserve is likely to keep interest rates low which in turn weakens the dollar—but don’t expect any government officials to officially endorse a low currency.
In January of this year, Christina Romer (now Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors) and Jared Bernstein (now Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden) put together a report
ACORN's attorney warned the group last year that it needed to get its fiscal and managerial houses in order, reports Matthew Vadum at The American Specator Blog. That warning came in the form of a 15-page memo, Vadum reports, that is the "Holy Grail
CALGARY - As far as Lord Christopher Monckton is concerned, the debate on global warming is over as the science linking rising CO2 levels to calamitous environmental consequences is fatally flawed.
