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The White House promised that new figures showing progress in President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan will be more accurate as it aggressively defended an earlier faulty count that overstated by thousands the jobs created or saved so far.
Perminov said the preliminary design could be ready by 2012, and then it would take nine more years and cost $600 million to build the ship. "The project is aimed at implementing large-scale space exploration programs, including a manned mission t
Many states set achievement standards so low that they can say their students are reading and doing math at their grade level when they haven't truly mastered the subjects, the Education Department asserted Thursday. The Obama administration said
Patients taking statin drugs were almost 50% less likely to die from flu, researchers reported the cholesterol-lowering drugs help the body cope with infection. The findings are compelling enough to justify doing controlled studies in which some p
House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee rep
The House ethics committee announced Thursday that it would begin full investigations into two House members, Maxine Waters and Laura Richardson, but a security breach threatened to make public the names of many other members facing ethics inquiries.
Nearly half the members of a powerful House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, who have trained their lens on the relationships between seven panel members and an influential lobbying
CIT Group (CIT.N) is likely to file for bankruptcy in the coming days, analysts and experts said. The lender to small and medium-sized businesses is trying to restructure its debt, and is offering investors two options. One path would be gettin
Rhode Island would close a loophole allowing prostitutes to ply their trade indoors under new legislation approved by state lawmakers. The bill approved Thursday would make prostitution a misdemeanor offense regardless of where it occurs. Prostitu
(From the oh-for-God's-sake dept) Four Utah teenagers have been cited for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald's drive-through. The teens say they were imitating a popular video on YouTube. They rapped their order, which
Stupid Criminals – Municipal authorities in Kansas City, MO have failed at a recent robbery attempt. The city officials used red light cameras to extort over 1.7 million dollars out of their constituent’s pockets. The cost to install the cameras?
New website from Jim Kaiser, telling the side of the "kidnapping" story that most of the media doesn't want to tell. Your comments are appreciated and your donations to my defense fund are even more appreciated. Don't forget to subscribe to the site
The Bank of North Dakota is the only state-owned bank in America - what Republicans might call an idiosyncratic bastion of socialism. It also earned a record profit last year even as its private-sector corollaries lost billions. To be sure,
(Maybe Goldman Sachs will hire him) A man in eastern China has been given a 9-year jail term for buying and selling over 58 billion yuan ($8.5 billion) worth of fraudulent gold futures, state media said on Thursday. The man, named as Zhang Yong
The Russian Finance Ministry has not shelved plans to sell gold from the State Precious Metals and Gemstones Repository (Gokhran) and could sell approximately 25 tonnes of the the metal, possibly on the domestic market, a ministry official
Intrepid Pakistani bloggers are busy exposing the buildup of U.S. covert forces in Pakistan as well as the expansion of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, making it the largest American embassy in the world with a contingent of a 1,000 Marines.
The request has sparked cries of censorship from Republicans who say the Democrats don't like what the August report said: that the government of Honduras had the authority to remove President Manuel Zelaya from office.
Pakistani forces found a passport of an Islamist militant linked to two hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks during an offensive against Taliban strongholds near the Afghan border, a TV station said. The passport of Said Bahaji, a German
I work third shift, 2200 to 0800. I'm too cheap to buy satellite radio, so I channel surf during my shift and inevitably end up listening to talk radio for a few hours. It seems like every show has endless advertisements touting the value of adding g
The Pinal County Sheriff's Office has cited Apache Junction Vice Mayor R.E. Eck with having no proof of insurance on top of recommending charges of aggravated assault related to an Oct. 2 road rage incident.
Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Barclays and Goldman Sachs have funded cluster bomb-makers to the tune of $5 billion in the past two years despite an international accord to ban the weapons. The banks loaned money to companies whose products i
Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago has been detected, becoming the most distant object in the universe ever observed. The light from the distant explosion, called a gamma-ray burst, first reached Earth on April 23 and was detected b
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner scrambled to fight off attacks from all sides on a new Obama administration plan for tackling financial risk in the economy unveiled just two days ago. After weeks of negotiations, the administration and Democratic
"Sure, the economy's standing up on its own legs again, but for how long once the government stimulus starts to fade?" said an economist. "That's the million dollar question for the nation's unemployed -- all 15.1 million of them sitting idle, throug
If shoppers retrench in the face of rising joblessness and tight credit, the fragile recovery could tip back into recession. The Obama administration wants to take credit for ending the recession. But, it needs to acknowledge rising joblessness conti
Conventional medicine's explanations of HIV and AIDS are a medical myth at best; and outright quackery at worst. There is no such thing as a virus that "causes" AIDS...
Iran proposed changes to a U.N.-drafted nuclear fuel deal making demands that appeared to challenge the basis of the agreement with the United States, France and Russia. "(ElBaradei) is engaged in consultations with Iran as well as all relevant parti
Weeks of tough, closed-door negotiations to merge three pending House healthcare bills produced a 1,990-page measure that would cost an estimated $894 billion over 10 years -- below President Barack Obama's target of $900 billion -- and reduce the de
"I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to," she told a group of newspaper editors. "Maybe they are not 'get-at-able'. I don't know," she said.
With more than 80 percent of the country currently under Taliban control, Defense Secretary Robert Gates argued that U.S. nation-dismantling efforts are actually proceeding ahead of schedule
